This coming Saturday I will be selling/signing books and paneling at Vikingcon 2014 at Western Washington University. Would love to see you there. Here are the planned panels (May be subject to change). Or look at the Program here and notice that I get to be on a...
Hey folks, I'll be at Norwescon next Friday, April 18, 2014, hopefully by early evening and staying through to April 20, 2014. Staying at the Doubletree by Hilton SeaTac in the 'Pro' block! I'm not a panelist this year, but I'll be attending panels, meeting people....
A poem by Robert L. Slater, inspired by Theodore Geisel In the spring of the year of twenty fourteen There was found a kind author with a penchant for green He printed his novels on backs of DOOSpaper* And tried to recycle all of the newspaper When to his hometown he...
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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 Playing the...
My first reading as a published novelist in the library where I discovered science fiction went very well. I had old and new friends, family and, hopefully, some new fans. We had 30+ people, I sold 17 books and had plenty of hugs and fond remembrances and fond...
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.