Rough Draft of a Letter to the Future [To be placed in a time capsule in Ferndale, WA in 2014 to be opened in 2064.] Future folk, What could be more exciting to a writer of Speculative Fiction than to be asked to time-travel? It would be slower than one would like, of...
At the beginning of this year I set a goal of a 500 words per day. I have only managed to accomplish that goal on 5 days. Other days I wrote few to none. So, with the idea that if I tell folks what my goal is I will hold myself more accountable, I am publicizing it....
Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’s Path to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. Read Path to Indie Publication: Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Part...
Thanks to Mark Lefebvre of Kobo nomination I was listed as #1 on the inaugural IndieReader Next Picks list for April. Can't believe I didn't post this on the blog. Spinning.... Head is... Barely attached...
My Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’s Path to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. Read Path to Indie Publication: Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. ...
VIkingcon 2014 was awesome. 17 newsletter signups, panel with Greg Bear, Jason Andrew, Susan Matthews, met Alma Alexander, Jennifer Brozek, and John Patrick Lowrie. Hung out with daughters & grand. Sold 9 novels and donated one for the WWU Associated Students...
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.