This advice goes to 11! I love to work with students on their writing. Poetry, fiction, screenplays, essays... I love their ideas, their growth over time, but not so much their ability to self-reflect. But I was a young writer once, too. Nothing is ever as brilliant...
I've released another short story, One Tin Soldier on Amazon as a pre-release. I'm experimenting with the marketing tools available to KDP select so I can decide what to use for my next novel. Here's the cover art for One Tin Soldier. I created the art work with Canva...
The last month has been a hard one in terms of writing. Though I wrote 55,000 words this summer, probably more than I have ever written, it was not the 75,000 and the finished rough drafts of a novel and a novella. Instead, I have unfinished drafts of two novels and a...
My Deserted Lands novella, Toils and Snares--a parallelequel to All Is Silence, is now in rough draft completed form. Now I need Alpha, Beta, and Gamma readers for Toils and Snares Beta readers – reading the messy first draft for the story arc. Does it work? Gamma...
BACK TO SCHOOL SALE - Outward Bound Collection is FREEEE!!!! For the next 4 dayson Amazon's Kindle store. Please, download, tell your friends. I'd love to rank high on the free chart for a day! The links are below. Thanks for all the support....
And now for something completely different. My new Publication, Just Desert, a short story of a woman's mid-life crisis in the southwestern American desert. How far will you go to find yourself? What will Chela sacrifice? Her life? Her soul? What will she lose and...
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.