On February 28th, 2015, I published TOILS AND SNARES on Amazon. It was my eldest brother's 55th birthday. His name is James and, though I wasn't thinking about it at the time, is a character in TOILS AND SNARES. Oddly enough, the other main characters are Maria, Sam,...
I officially released All Is Silence February 18th, 2014, so it is nearing its fourth book-birthday and about eighteen months from my fictional apocaloptimistic future pandemic. It’s been a lot of up and down recently. All of them have silver linings, but sometimes...
Note: [This post was originally called July Smorgasblog: Tempus Fugit. Isn't that ironic, doncha think?] Summer started late for me this year due to ice and snow days during the school year. Now Fall is behind me and a weird winter's weather has arrived. 67 degrees at...
Welcome to The Indie Author Challenge, promoting NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in conjunction with the Whatcom County Library System, Bellingham Libraries, Windward High School and me, Robert L. Slater, author of the Deserted Lands series of apocalyptic...
Hey folks, please forgive this meandering post. I wanted to reach out and let people know what's up. Been a long time since I rock and rolled. It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. Yesterday, on a day that is usually one of my favorites as it is the...
Well, June is nearly done and I haven't written a blog post since May! Wow. So this will be another quick recap of what's happening... ReBeginnings: Releasing the Printed eBook collection of TOILS AND SNARES/OUTWARD BOUND on July 1st at Village Books in Bellingham. It...
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.