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Rob Krabbe

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in Saint Charles, IL, The United States

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male

website

http://www.krabbe.com

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Short Stories, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth,...more

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June 2010

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Rob Krabbe is an author and composer living deep in the forest of the upstate of the Carolinas with his mostly grown children and his wife of thirty years. He has spent a great deal of his life as a musician and song writer, and has recently focused more of his time on his story writing. He now spends most of his days in his cabin office in the woods writing, and has several novels and projects in process. He has written and published several short stories and poems, and has previously published two books including a collection of his short stories, Chaos to Order and Back Again, and a daily poetry journal, Forty Days in the Dessert - forty days of prayer and fasting. The Jake Collins Band - The Fading Silence is the first of a three-part t...more

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Rob Krabbe's Blog: From a Krabbe Desk

The Meaning of Life, From an Old King

© 2013 by Rob Krabbe, Based on Ecclesiastes 1-4, and excerpted fromthe book “Carnitas and Manic Mango Salsa: Surviving Mental Illness Long Enough to Make Pork Tacos, and Other Dangerous Things” by Rob Krabbe, to be released late 2013.

Shadows-of-meaning, illusion and lies, everything fades, everything dies. Shadows-of-meaning, fading, steam from a grave. What is there to show, or to know, for a...

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Rob Krabbe's Books

Average rating: 4.68 · 19 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Jake Collins Band: the Fading Silence 4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chaos to Order and Back Again 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forty Days in the Desert 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rob’s Writing

Into The Cool Gray (Poetry)

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Description: A Poem that I wrote a long time ago, that experiments with increasing numbers of syllables and sounds in each line. The subject is death on the surface, but underlying is life.

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Rob Krabbe is currently reading

A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)

by Ellis Peters

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Rob Krabbe liked Rob Krabbe's blog post: Rob Krabbe’s new speculative fiction/novel available now! " “The Jake Collins Band and the Fading Silence“ A New Novel by by Rob Krabbe Jake Collins had worked his whole young life to get to that night. Rock and roll, the big times. The boys knew they had made it. Three number one ..." Read more of this blog post »
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Rob Krabbe liked Rob Krabbe's blog post: The Fading Silence - New Novel "The Jake Collins Band and the Fading Silence Hey folks, my new speculative fiction/novel is available in Kindle format here and Print versions (paperback or hardcover), as well as other eBook formats at The Krabbe Web Site. Thank you for grabbi..." Read more of this blog post »
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Rob Krabbe wants to read A Life Lived Ridiculously by Annabelle R. Charbit	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 28, 2012 02:28pm
Rob Krabbe made a comment in the group Editio Self-Publishing — Promote your book, your blog and yourself topic "J.W. > sorry I didn't spell it out from the original post. I don't know the blog but when I added an e to the entire URL it went to the blog. www.j ...more "
Dec 20, 2012 12:46pm
Rob Krabbe made a comment in the group Editio Self-Publishing — Did Free Book Promotions Work For You? topic "I second the question. My own success was about the same, so far. I would love to read the answer from anyone who has had a different result from the...more "
Dec 18, 2012 08:10am
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Rob Krabbe wants to read I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus: A Breathers Christmas Carol by S.G. Browne (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There are elements of reality in every dream, and elements of fantasy in every reality.”
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