There’s nothing better than watching a good sunset. All the colors: orange, red, yellow, pink are a sight to see. The sun blazes across the sky then dips down to sleep on that end of the earth at night.

There’s just something about watching the sunset. Take time to stop and watch the sunset wherever you are!

The Mailbox of the Kindred Spirit, which is on the southern end of Sunset Beach. is the inspiration for my story about Ernie and Melody who meet at a young age at a Golf Club in the mountains of North Carolina where he works and where her mother works. They grow up and grow apart and she moves to Ocean Isle Beach. Eventually he comes to a place where he tries to connect with her again. The mailbox plays an important part in their story.

Private Detective Chance Richardson stumbles upon the brutally murdered body of Al Bryant out near Happy Valley, North Carolina – the site of the infamous real-life Tom Dooley murder of Laura Foster – after intercepting a CB broadcast asking for help. A local town drunk by the name of Henry Lee Coffey is found near the crime scene and arrested for Al’s murder. Chance’s pal, newspaper reporter Kelly Grant, is asked by her former high school nemesis Mary Beth Coffey Dula to check into the crime for Henry’s sake.

Detective Chance Richardson and Kelly Grant return for another mystery this time up high on Hibriten Mountain.

Some call it murder. Some call it art. This is the final book in the Detective Chance Richardson and Kelly Grant mystery series. This book takes place in local areas of Caldwell County, NC at the walking park, sculpture park, downtown and at a mysterious and somewhat hideous mountain. Join Chance and Kelly as they sort out a killer after finding a victim turned into a real life piece of performance art in the park!

This book is a compilation of essays about writing, publishing, editing and surviving life as a writer and poet. The lead essay involves how to read Walt Whitman, a must read for would be poets and poetry lovers to read and digest. How many even read Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” all the way to the end? I’m still working on reading it – the whole thing, the Deathbed edition. He is the reason we have free verse in poetry. His very approach and success to poetry can teach would be poets and current poets a lot about how to succeed in this art, this field even today.

The love of poetry begins at a young age. These are fun and mostly rhyming poems about snow, reading, apple pie, dogs, poetry, writing, flowers, rain, wind, cats, noises and the sun.

Poetry about L.A. (east in North Carolina). These poems are taken from the FB page, Poetry in LA (@poetryinla) created by LB Sedlacek. Poems are about Hibriten Mountain, the annual Sculpture Fest, the annual Blackberry Festival, Wilson Creek, Highways 18 and 90, the antique car shows, old buildings, and the general way of life in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountain area that locals fondly call “LA.” for Lenoir Area.

Return to more poems about LA, Lenoir Area, in this second book featuring poetry from the Facebook page, @poetryinla. This time poems cover our local arts scene such as our murals and the famous Dirt Circle (“Across the Grain” sculpture by Thomas Sayre.) Poems go back in time to what our area was originally known as “Tuckers Barn” and to days of local raw honey and homemade molasses, the old Blue Bell plant and Lenoir High School. There’s also a follow up to the poem “Hibriten Mountain” from the first book with the new poem “Mill Mountain to Hibriten Mountain.”

Poems written about being a poet or writing poetry.

Poems from the Fountain of Youth to Amelia Island, fishing by the lake, orange juice, all travel poems to and from Florida!

A variety of short stories with the title story being set in New Mexico.

E.P. Huntington is just a maintenance guy for the GBT (Great Big Thing) and the other telescopes and labs at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. An artist, a poet, and a novice astronomer, Janise Birch was all that until she disappeared. She left something behind. Does her last poem, her most ingenious work contain an important message for us all? Her cousin, Darius, his best friend, E.P., and her Astronomy Professor are about to find out.

E.P. Huntington is back again this time solving the mystery of what happened to Janise’s Dad in Spruce, WV. Join the Professor, Kelsi and Darius as they stumble across some of Pocahontas county’s well-known spots such as Droop mountain, Spruce, Cass, and Beartown in West Virginia to solve the enigma of the Redshift.

These are true stories or helpful articles on writing. There are so many things to experience in life. As a writer, I enjoy helping other writers succeed or to stir up an interest in writing and literature in those new to it. My favorite of these is the first story which seemed to magically unfold. Unbeknownst to me, it was a true tale which was meant to be.Sometimes a story (or article) just has to be told.

One believers poems about the ever elusive creature known as Bigfoot (and so many other names). There are certain places I visit or have visited: West Virginia, South Carolina, and the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and they all have something in common – Bigfoot. There are wooded areas everywhere so it seems possible. I will keep on looking! And believing. How about you?

Do you know your zone? Living in hurricane country, there are zones to be aware of to be prepared. Take a trip to the South Carolina low country of Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, Isle of Palms, and Sullivan’s Island.

-LB Sedlacek would rather be swimming and makes that perfectly clear in this sequel to her poetry book “Swim.”
Dive in to these new poems based on pools and swimming.

“Swim by LB Sedlacek is a wonderful book of poetry. Sedlacek’s creation of the swimming metaphor to talk about leisure and pleasure, seclusion and isolation; is utterly great and unique.” Maryam Qureshi, Songs Of Cardinal.

These poems are written about the Quiet Zone and the surrounding and nearby area. There’s so much to see and do in West Virginia! The Quiet Zone is in Greenbank, West Virginia near the radio telescopes. They keep out any interference such as from a cell phone where the telescopes are so it doesn’t affect their research. It’s fun to walk amongst the telescopes! They sit among the pine trees. The area is beautiful and isolated.