Hey young adult readers, the Young Adult Scavenger Hunt is starting soon. You can win FREE books, get free fiction for newsletter signups and prizes on almost every stop of the hunt. Ever stop has bonus materials related to one of the author's novels. This might be a...
Tomorrow, Monday, August 15th at 7pm, I will be hanging out with the Village Books Speculative Fiction Book Club and talking about ALL IS SILENCE. This will be my second book club appearance, though I hope this one is better attended [Thanks for hosting me, Jimmy....
My brothers were always my heroes. The fact that were five and seven years older helped. The fact that they're both pretty awesome human beings didn't hurt either. Although torturing me with The Overgrown Pin Cushion, and kissing Catherine Kolkworf on the bus... Well,...
The good news is I'm writing again. 7000 plus words in the last three days. Unfortunately, they are mostly not part of Deserted Lands Book III - No Man's Land. Instead I've written a short story. Working Title: To Tell The Truth. Features a young girl, born African...
If you missed PART I & II, here they are: QUEST FOR THE PERFECT WRITING MACHINE... Part I, Part II. And the surprise winner is... NEO2 by Alphasmart. Was I surprised? Hell yes! The cheapest of the units I tested is the biggest winner. But why is it the best? I...
If you missed PART I, here it is: QUEST FOR THE PERFECT WRITING MACHINE - PART I... I got my Freewrite and have been taking turns comparing the 3.3 functional 'distraction-free' writing units: Freewrite by Astrohaus, my Acer Aspire V5 with no wifi, and my...
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.