Ben Cohen has started Ben’s Best Blnz, a nonprofit cannabis line with a stated mission of helping to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Some of his favorite movies and TV shows are Battlestar Galactica (both versions), Andromeda, Star Trek, Firefly, Star Wars, and many of the B-rated movies that were actually box-office bombs. (AP) One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to ‘blunts,’ promising a line of marijuana products with a social mission. He was, and still is, influenced and inspired by Gene Roddenberry, Anne McCaffery, David Weber, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury. Being an avid fan of science fiction he focused on this genre. The first book, Star Dancer, won awards and was nominated for many others by the online communities where it was posted.īen Winston returned to school for literature, after completion, he began writing professionally. Ben wrote a trilogy called the Talosian Chronicles (Currently in rewrite to remove the graphic sex and finalized his vision of the story).

He began writing as a form of stress release, from being home bound and not being able to work, and found he liked writing erotica. Upon returning to the United States, he had difficulty maintaining employment because of the chronic illness. A month after beginning the new job, he was laid off due to budget over-runs on the project he was hired for. Shortly after getting out of the military, and after getting a new job with an over-seas company, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. Before getting out of the military, he decided to go to school for computer electronics. Upon reaching adulthood, he joined the United States Army as a communications technician. Ben Winston (1965 - ?) was born in Iowa and grew up in Minnesota on the family dairy farm.

Olympus by Ben Winston