Hey folks, Bling, bling, bling!!! Feel free to share this information around with anyone who reads Science Fiction and/or Young Adult Apocalyptic fiction. I am going to run a giveaway for a Hardcover copy of ALL IS SILENCE. [Ended up not doing this because it goes...
Why I Wattpad is a continuing series of blogposts about my first year on Wattpad. Here are Part I, Part III, and Part IV As I approach half a million reads on Wattpad, I am writing this blog in order to make some sense of its effect on my recent and future sales. I...
Well. Citing Scotty's law of time estimates, I should have given myself 6 months extra to publish my 'short' novel, or novella, Toils and Snares. When I conceived this story, I remember thinking it would be about 20,000 words. For my word graph estimate I chose 22,222...
My 48th birthday was February 15th. I feel very blessed this month, a year after releasing my first novel. Hoping that saying something out loud doesn't ruin it... I have sold a piece of writing for everyday of this month. Yes. 28 sales. Split between pre-sales on...
My tiny little snowball is rolling. Keeping it going with all the other distractions is a challenge. Just a couple updates: February 23, 2015: Bellingham Alternative Library. Author Reading with my friend, Michael Sarrow. Radcon 6c. Day 2. I was there. Started the...
Radcon 6c. Day 2. Started the morning with a swim in a deserted pool, then hot-tub. Now Breakfast, reading, Panel on Can't Put It Down Pacing, then Writing Young Adult Fiction in the evening. Got to meet Jim Hines, Libriomancer/Genre-bending CoverArt guy and Ksenia...
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.