A bit more cover reveal for STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS below. I woke up this morning and checked my e-mail [before continuing to grade finals for submission by 8 am tomorrow] to discover it was the Ides of March and I'd just sent out an e-newsletter. Automated e-mailers...
So, some day I would like to regularly blog here about my life outside writing, but at the moment, as one can see by the lack of activity here, that day is probably still a way off. Some of the things I would like to blog about are: Alopecia Areata - The condition...
Hey folks, Bling, bling, bling!!! Feel free to share this information around with anyone who reads Science Fiction and/or Young Adult Apocalyptic fiction. I am going to run a giveaway for a Hardcover copy of ALL IS SILENCE. [Ended up not doing this because it goes...
Why I Wattpad is a continuing series of blogposts about my first year on Wattpad. Here are Part I, Part III, and Part IV As I approach half a million reads on Wattpad, I am writing this blog in order to make some sense of its effect on my recent and future sales. I...
Well. Citing Scotty's law of time estimates, I should have given myself 6 months extra to publish my 'short' novel, or novella, Toils and Snares. When I conceived this story, I remember thinking it would be about 20,000 words. For my word graph estimate I chose 22,222...
My 48th birthday was February 15th. I feel very blessed this month, a year after releasing my first novel. Hoping that saying something out loud doesn't ruin it... I have sold a piece of writing for everyday of this month. Yes. 28 sales. Split between pre-sales on...
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.