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...
Several months ago at a gathering of the Whatcom Writers and Publishers I was gently approached by a woman with a question. She was producing a book about people with Alopecia. And the question she kindly asked was did I have Alopecia, hair loss caused by an...
"Real love is a man's salvation, the weak ones fall the strong carry on..." ~Tom Petty from the song, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS. Had lots of real love over the last week or so. It did make everything better. But I am tired. The hardest end of a school year ever. I've...
As I sit, still slightly befuddled by the week just passed, I ponder the long term. In the wake of the deaths of two of my students and two more greviously injured, I don't know what my summer will look like. I still have big goals: finishing STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS is...
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.