Larry Baker's Blog

• Long-time dream to come true

  March 4, 2010

  •   News & Events Book Signing and Reading by Larry Baker On Tuesday, March 16, the Foundation will host "An Evening with Larry Baker" at Andalusia.  Baker's novel A Good Man (Ice Cube Books, 2009) is the story of Harry ...
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• How did A GOOD MAN get written?

  June 10, 2009

  • An idea becomes a story, and thenthe story becomes a different story.I wanted to write about a preacher who was a phony, an updated Elmer Gantry story. He was to be a modern tele-evangelist who was more a scam artist than a man of God. It was not an original idea, but most stories aren’t. So I looked for my own angle. How about a black preacher? That itself was not a radical idea, but I knew it ...
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• Finally, my long national nightmare is over---a new book being published

  June 6, 2009

  • After years of nail biting and pouting in front of my wife, I found a home for my new novel.  With the perfect publisher---somebody who got the manuscript on a Wednesday and told me the following Saturday that he would like to publish it. Release date is September 23. Feel free to pre-order a dozen copies for yourself and friends. The story? A Good ManSynopsisHarry Ducharme is at the end of his ...
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