Category Archives: novels in progress

Thank You

Posted on March 1, 2015 by labeak52

Gotta say that this worked.  My novel, In The Forest Of The Night, is now #2 on the Amazon list for free books in the category of Literary Fiction.  Thanks for downloading!  If you read it and like it, I’d … Continue reading →

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The Five Ways That Blogging Will Change Your Life

Posted on August 15, 2014 by labeak52

    This post assumes that the blogging you do will be serious writing. Although the blogosphere is a brand new kind of place and full of surprises, the old adage about getting out of something what you put into … Continue reading →

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Evening Post, August 14. 2014

Posted on August 14, 2014 by labeak52

A memoir: a prose poem It is always August.  There was something in those thirty days under the Dog Star that seemed permanent and everlasting.   The weeks in June and July had been long enough to dim the memory of … Continue reading →

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Evening Post, August 13, 2014: Excerpt from Novel

Posted on August 13, 2014 by labeak52

This evening’s post is a passage from my novel,In The Forest Of The Night. It is a description of a state trooper (who is investigating a murder) driving from the rural coalfields of southern West Virginia to the State Capital. … Continue reading →

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Morning Post, August 11, 2014

Posted on August 11, 2014 by labeak52

Here is a passage from my upcoming book, Overtime: A Basketball Parable.  The story is told by a long-time, high-school basketball coach who is looking back over his life.  All rights are reserved.     In January of 1980, with … Continue reading →

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Evening Poems, August 10, 2014

Posted on August 10, 2014 by labeak52

Here are two short poems for the evening.  I wrote both of them years ago.  The first is an attempt at haiku and the other is taken from my novel, In The Forest Of The Night.   As always, I hope … Continue reading →

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Evening Post, August 9, 2014

Posted on August 9, 2014 by labeak52

Could not find or muster up another poem for tonight.  So, here are the first three paragraphs of a book I was once contemplating, but will probably never finish.   It was good to be young then To be close … Continue reading →

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