Scenes from me and other wonderful poets reading at Poetry Rendezvous 2019.  The event was held in Black Mountain, NC.  The first day was at White Horse.

The story of “Intent”:  Vinton Ferguson pulls into the Richmond, Virginia area rest stop in his faithful royal blue Ford pickup truck. He hadn’t been late to work in over 40 years. He finds an abandoned car in the parking lot only to be shocked at what he finds inside. Julia Wells and her sidekick assistant Roger gets the case of the accused, Meghan Wright.

Two sisters, Anna and Meghan, were on their way with their parents to the former Heritage USA, but they never make it. Somewhere in Virginia, they pulled off the side of the road after a lengthy argument. Meghan gets out of the car and the Wright’s drive off leaving her there on the highway. When they finally turn around to go back for her, she is gone. The next day the Wright’s are found much like what Vinton found in the station wagon at the rest stop where he works.

Lawyer against Lawyer, a faithful employee, two sisters, a pastor and his wife, a troubled marriage, and a deep religious faith … or not. Is Meghan guilty? Did she have intent?

Find out in the psychological thriller set in Richmond, VA and Morganton, NC from award winning poet and author, LB Sedlacek.

Intent

Now available:  new poems in the Things to Do with you Dog series – “Government Shutdown!”  This poetry book is a sequel of sorts to “Things to do on Vacation in Washington DC with your Dog.” We visited Washington, DC in early February right after a government shutdown had temporarily ended. It’s only been lifted for a few days. The shutdown went on for about a month, the longest in US history. Technically, the government wasn’t shutdown when we arrived, but because it was a weekend a lot of things were shutdown anyway. This is sort of an insider’s guide to what do in DC if you want to do something a little different or if you do indeed visit during a shutdown.

Things to Do on Vacation during a Government Shutdown

Charleston Silver was just an ordinary boy, an ice runner on Lake James in North Carolina, or what was left. He’d never known what life without ice looked like, none of them did, they’d heard of it but none of them were really sure it ever existed at least not in this corner of western of North Carolina. He stuck to the ice and running. Lake James, when it wasn’t frozen, in places went as deep as 125 feet. Everything was solid ice even the trees were solid blocks of tall frozen ice.

None of them, none of this part of North Carolina knew the sun.

Join Charleston and his crew: Goldsboro, Columbia, Richmond, Wilmington, Jacksonville aka Jackson, and New Bern as they discover what put this particular part of the south, western North Carolina, entirely frozen and in need of the sun.

Do you dare to play the game, the game of Cackalacka?

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  “It turns out LB Sedlacek is one of the most prolific writers of our time. I hardly had time to finish breakfast before two more poetry collections slipped into my omelet. In her latest, The Adventures of Stick People on Cars, you’ll be surprised how much flesh a stick figure can have. These poems, physically thin on the page, are wide with sentiment and even experiment. Take the marriage of what could be separate poems in the blended lines of “Magnificent Bully” as two seemingly separate stories collide together in an almost ekphrastic euphoria. In The adventures of Stick people…, you’ll miss LB’s dad right along with her. You’ll turn every page before your first cup of coffee becomes nostalgia. Watch out for bears.” ~Rick Lupert, author of Hunka Hunka Howdee! and God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion

The Adventures of Stick People on Cars

Pocahontas County, West Virginia is the subject of the poems in this book. The book is divided into Winter and Summer with poems about how different this scenic spot is up in the wilds and mountains of West Virginia. Poems visit Slatyfork, the Radio Astronomy Center, winter sports, and more. This is your outdoor guide to poetry (with a little bit of indoors thrown in too) to life in this part of West Virginia!

Pocahontas Doesn’t Live in Pocahontas County: West Virginia Poems

Now available: signed copies of “The Glass River” at Tybrisa Books #theglassriver #lbsedlacekpoet #mysteries #happyvalleync

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New poetry book – “I am happy to announce this morning that “The Adventures of Stick People on Cars” a poetry chapbook from LB Sedlacek is now available. 85 highly amusing pages of poetry. Cover art from Red Focks”