Exciting times. I've been researching publishing and beginning to put together a plan for August and everything after. Looking at first printing through the local bookstore Village Books on their Espresso Print Machine then doing additional printing through Lightning...
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“All is Silence in the World” Progress
Hey folks, Last night I finished the climax (third time charm) for the novel. Now I need to fill in a couple final rising action scenes and the last few pages of the denouement. Then on to the rewrite. In the last few weeks I've also written most of a short story set...
Utah locals needed… Gun question for the novel.
Okay, folks, Strange question for my novel. How prevalent are rifles on gun racks in trucks in Utah? Nonexistent?
Kickstarter: Citizen of the Galaxy graphic novel.
Hay folks, Just pledged a bit of my hard-earned cash to this Kickstart of Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy to create a graphic novel. I hope they do it even if the Kickstart does not happen. Seems like a great one to start with. Also discovered that Joss Whedon was...
Melancholy Elephants: Is copyright killing our cultural past?
From past present 1983 Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants. Brilliant mind. Spider predicted the dilemma we are facing today. Read this Atlantic article then read the FREE Creative Commons copy of Melancholy Elephants.We need genius thinking here. There are two...
SFM & EMP
Checked out the new Video Game Art and Science Fiction Icons (and Nirvana: Bringing Punk to the Masses.) and the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum. Always love to stare at the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Bizarre to see people my friends and I jammed...
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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.
