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Winter Wonderland

As I sit here watching the snow fall outside, the snow is also beginning to fall in the chapter of the book I'm doing FINAL edits on. Well, okay, final story edits. The copy edits are starting to come in 5 chapters at a time. Then off to the printers. The final cover...

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More ARCs, Final Drafts, More Giveaways…

Well, as 2013 draws to a close, I find myself working to stay vertical. I'm doing final edits before sending ALL IS SILENCE off to Copy Editors. Then I'll have it off to the printers to be able to deliver Pre-publication editions to the big 4 (or so) reviewers and any...

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GREEN TUESDAY SALE!

Hey folks, Tired of Black Friday where people stumble over each other to get more things? What better way to compensate than by going GREEN? Buy eBooks for $0.99, 99 cents! Help save the planet, starving writers and give yourself something to read when you're waiting...

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November sadness and gladness

Well. That was a month. NANOWRIMO 2013: Began well and kept a steady pace, but wrote on shuffle without enough story arc in my mind. Last year I'd spent 6-8 months thinking about the first 2/3 of the novel which equaled 58,000 words. This year, I think I wrote all the...

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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.