This last weekend, after reading the news, I acted on an idea I'd had earlier and wrote a poem homaging [Is that really a word, Rob? It is now.) So here it is, version 3.20.
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Flashback to January 11th, 2020, Lizzie Goodin-Guerrero’s 18th birthday
I found this diary entry on 1/11/21, Lizzie's fictional 19th birthday, a year after I'd written it, right in the middle of the pandemic, 2626 days (7 years 70 days) after I started writing ALL IS SILENCE on 11/1/12 [Wow, I like number patterns and these are kind...
Finally. NO MAN’S LAND. No, really. Fer super reals this time…
I just finished entering edits based on my beta readers' feedback for NO MAN'S LAND - Deserted Lands Book III, the end of Lizzie's trilogy. What duz 'finished entering edits based on my beta readers feedback' mean? Haven't you finished this book three times...
NO MAN’S LAND Cutting Room Floor Scene
As I work to cut NO MAN'S LAND from 115,599 words down to below 99,999 words, I'm finding scenes that don't move the plot forward. Or at least not much.After I released ALL IS SILENCE in 2014, I posted some cut scenes. Available here on the blog: Lizzie's debut...
DON’T BUY MY BOOK! WHAT‽
Why not‽ "But, Rob, I've been waiting 5 years on a cliffhanger for Book III, and I want it now, now, now!" What I mean is don't buy my books YET. Don't despair, I have several solutions I'll mention at the bottom of this post. You can jump there right away, but I'd...
S.M.A.R.T & D.U.M.B. Goals for 2022
WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS for 2022? Not resolutions, not dreams! But Goals. I went to a Writer's Conference called 20 Books to 50K several weeks ago. Unlike many writer's conferences, the primary focus is on helping authors with the business side of writing. There are...
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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.