At seventy-nine the author had his first book signing on May 6, 2000 and at the end of March 2002 the book signing events totaled sixty, forty-one with Books A Million, fifteen with Barnes & Noble, two with Borders, one with Waldenbooks and one with The Freedom Library, Ocala, Fl.

Olmond has spoken to groups at three Barnes & Noble, one Books A Million, one Borders and three Writers Clubs. The title of his topic is, "How to Get Published" and "I'm Published, What the Hell do I do Now?"

While doing book signing events Olmond started on his second novel and published, Road to Marrakech in June 2001. After sixty book signing events the author is taking a rest, until the fall of 2002 and is starting on his third novel and preparing to hit the trail again.

Olmond was a twenty-one year old First Sergeant participated in the invasion of North Africa at Casablanca in October 1942 and spent about thirteen months in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia before the invasion of Italy. Olmond included in the Road to Marrakech smells, sights, sounds and mystery that still linger in his memory. The story setting is in pre World War two Morocco, when the Nazi Germans, Vichy French and Italian Fascists were in North Africa.
Returned to the United States in June of 1944. After a thirty day furlough; three weeks of R & R in Miami Beach, five months training new troops in construction of air fields; he debarked for the Pacific theater of operations in January 1945. Landing with the fourth wave on IE Shima. Seven months later he was returned to Ashburn General Hospital near Dallas. On October 10, 1945 he was discharged after spending, six years, nine days, 23 hours and fifty minutes in the Military.
For the next forty-five years he was a traveling salesman. sales manager, general manager and a partner in the Office Supply, Printing and Office Furniture business. In his retirement he has written and published two books and working on the third.

Author: July 2001 Ocala, Florida	Author December: 1942 Casablanca, Morocco

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