FENDER MASON

About the Book

Jockeys, trainers, Arab billionaires lawyers and beautiful women are all part of the Kentucky landscape in which first-time horse owner, Fender Mason, finds himself. His Beverly Hills background didn’t prepare him to be a farm owner . . . or much else . . . but fate hurls him into the middle of a mystery that introduces him to the danger zone of thoroughbred racing.

About the Author

Bernie Orenstein is an Associate Professor of Television History at Long Island University who, in his previous life was the writer/producer of such television favorites as Sanford and Son, Love American Style, Kate and Allie, Cosby and many others. Born in Toronto, where he worked in early television, he moved to New York in the late ‘60s to write Candid Camera and then to Hollywood where his thirty-five year career in sitcoms began with That Girl, the Marlo Thomas hit. He now lives in Connecticut with his wife, actress Barbara Rhoades. His first novel, Fender Mason, was a comic look at thoroughbred racing. If you love great writing, and enjoy murder mysteries--this book is for you. M. E. Altieri Saratoga.com Fender Mason and his friends kept me company for three days on my Sanibel FL vacation. I really enjoyed the verbal sparring between Fender and Anita - smart, cute and not sit-commy. So, Mr. O, I am asking about book 2. Is there one in the works? Margie Peters Executive Producer Facts of Life