Please feel free to share the pertinent information below. I'm feeling antsy about not releasing the book until 2014, because I keep finding similar stories, universes, etc. Some are even set in Seattle! So, the reason to delay is to give the book a chance to develop...
Over 87,000 words now. [Pretty sure the total words written on this book exceeds 100K now.] It takes more words to show rather than tell. And even as I'm cutting basic body function words that don't move the plot forward, expose character or provide setting, I'm...
Working on rewrite of Ch 22 of 36. Averaging 2.2 chapters per day. Still aiming to have all of the current rewrite done by 7/12. The next focus will be on readying Outward Bound: Speculative Fiction and Poetry which will include two unpublished Deserted Lands short...
The Bellingham Herald will be publishing our Serial Speculative Fiction Story starting on July 22nd. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Bellingham 100 years in the future. Lots of local color and darn good yarn considering it was written by Six authors who each had 800...
Elena and I took Ian and Miranda on a 'short' hike into the Olympic Rain Forest. It was short in mileage, about 2.6 miles in, but the constant up and down and switching back and the first trip of the year syndrome, meant it was really, really tough. Lovely scenery,...
Finished the first draft of the opening story for the Short Story collection. I wanted to start with an unpublished Deserted Lands story, so I finished the 1st draft sitting at camp on Grey Wolf Creek out in the Olympic Rain Forest. It's titled "Beginnings." I also...
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.