About TomBeaverBooks

TomBeaverBooks is a growing library of stories, essays, memoir, letters, observations, and books in progress. Much of the writing here is available to read free while it is still taking shape. Some pieces stand alone; others gradually become chapters in larger works.

I’ve been writing for most of my life—as a newspaper reporter, editor, advertising writer, programmer, and simply as someone who has always felt compelled to record what I notice. The subjects range from family, childhood, work, and small-town life to movies, animals, memory, dreams, odd encounters, and the occasional invention.

This site lets the books grow in public. Pieces can be revised, reordered, expanded, grouped, or sometimes abandoned. Eventually, some of these works will become finished books, where selection, editing, sequence, design, and permanence create a different experience from reading them one piece at a time online.

The simplest idea behind the site is this: read them free as they grow; buy them later if you love them.