We all deserve a role in a novel? What if that role involved dying? Would you be a good guy, a bad guy, the ex? The best friend? Or the random Red-shirt? The next logical question is how? Is it a fantasy? Are you eaten by a dragon, stabbed in the kidneys by a...
Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings with as little pain as possible... [originally published on the Pubslush Blog.] I spent the first 30-something years of my life as an extroverted actor, director, playwright. Over the last decade I’ve transformed...
Here's the latest eleven things for February. 1. On March 12th, Windward Boosters is teaming up with Barnes and Noble in Bellingham for a BookFair to benefit Windward High School programs. At 5 pm there will be five local YA writers: Royce Buckingham, Nick James,...
It seems like a pretty cool 49th birthday present to be writing a blog post about two years as a published author. I've completed my Sophomore Slump if I had one, and am moving on to whatever comes next. The graphic inserted to the left shows the last 8 weeks of...
Five days ago I posted a poem I'd written for my daughter who was born on the fifth anniversary of the Challenger's explosion on take-off. These are the lyrics to a song I wrote on the day the Columbia broke apart on re-entry. My notes on the lyric sheet: Begun on the...
In honor of the 2nd anniversary of the release of ALL IS SILENCE and the launch of the Deserted Lands series in February 2014, I am having a sale on all of my currently available works of fiction. In November I did an Elevensies Sale, so in February, I'm doing a...
Robert L. Slater, author of the young adult, apocalyptic science fiction series Deserted Lands, has worked as a teacher in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for 20 years. Like some of his characters, he has a propensity for speaking in lines from 80s movies, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.