Raymond: The Truth and a Lie Rated R for sexuality and mature themes. Paloma's First Tale: Dog and Butterflies Paloma let out a long sigh. "This isn't my first cruise ship journey, not by a lot. But it's the first one where I wasn't working.” Her gaze seemed to fade...
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find all the elevens (11s) in this campaign. Some obvious, some hidden. Some just a click away [Hint: Only 1 click]. Some numbers, some words, some quantities. I'll be post daily clues until someone finds them all!...
Here are the first words I wrote about Lizzie Goodin-Guerrero. I found them in a notebook about a year after I’d started seriously writing “Zombie Zoo” (the original working title that I knew I would never use for the novel. They were written in my Cursprint long...
This last weekend, after reading the news, I acted on an idea I'd had earlier and wrote a poem homaging [Is that really a word, Rob? It is now.) So here it is, version 3.20.
I found this diary entry on 1/11/21, Lizzie's fictional 19th birthday, a year after I'd written it, right in the middle of the pandemic, 2626 days (7 years 77 days) after I started writing ALL IS SILENCE on 11/1/12 [Wow, I like number patterns and these are kind...
I just finished entering edits based on my beta readers' feedback for NO MAN'S LAND - Deserted Lands Book III, the end of Lizzie's trilogy. What duz 'finished entering edits based on my beta readers feedback' mean? Haven't you finished this book three times...
As I work to cut NO MAN'S LAND from 115,599 words down to below 99,999 words, I'm finding scenes that don't move the plot forward. Or at least not much.After I released ALL IS SILENCE in 2014, I posted some cut scenes. Available here on the blog: Lizzie's debut...
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.