Okay, excuse the random catch-all of paragraphs that make up this post. If you want to skip all of it and get straight to finding out how to read STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS for FREE before it comes out at the end of the month press here. HERE. A week ago I discovered I...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this post is worth 10,123. I don't mention these often, but here's a pretty phenomenal review in the Skagit Valley Herald for a twenty month old book. Thanks to Brian Soneda at the Mount Vernon Public Library. Preorder up...
As I power through the last month before release of my second novel, I realized that I hadn't updated my events page. Since I had three to add I thought I would share it with you. If you meet me at these events there will always be special deals on my books and an...
Well... Time pressure is upon me. I've got deadlines coming up and time to meet them. Will I have the stubbornness to keep my nose to the literary grindstone and git 'er done? I'm planning on it, but next time, I am not setting a date for the release before I have...
Thanks to Sally Ember for a lovely and informative intro to Hangouts On Air. Check out her website if you are any kind of author and would like to participate. Too many, "uh, um," kinds of pauses. But that's what happens when things are completely unscripted, no?
Three weeks mostly off the grid. When I left for Italy on June 23rd, my phone remained at the YVR, the Vancouver airport. So with no smart-phone and inconsistent/non-existent internet, I managed a few hours over the course of the last three weeks. I spent...
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.