So. Been a bit quiet. Only have a bit of time. So here's a random catch-up post. Kobo: Finally hit #1 in a category. Though it's a bit of a weird category. Not TEEN, but KIDS Science Fiction. I wouldn't give the Lizzie Deserted Lands series to kids. When I write the...
As I await the arrival of my Kickstarter Freewrite, the word processor formerly known as the Hemingwrite, I consider the many machines I have used in an attempt to find the perfect writing device for me. I've spent much time and much money. And that time I said I...
Book Review of Immurement (The Undergrounders #1) by Norma Hinkens Actually, I'd give it more than 4 stars, but not 5. Really great debut novel. I don't usually like reading in present tense, but like Suzanne Collin's of Hunger Games fame, Hinkens does it so well,...
Here is the apocryphal tale of how I came to create my list of goals and dreams. In 1986 I read an article about Chuck Yeager, the famous pilot. As a kid he had made a list 74[?] things he wished to accomplish. He completed the list at the age of 74. Unfortunately, in...
Over the last few months in my role as an author and a Windward High School teacher, I have been getting out into communities, near and far, to talk about reading, writing, and reaching kids. Near the end of last year, the Mount Vernon Library Young Adult Writer’s...
Pablo Neruda is poet not-so-well known in the U.S. as he is in the rest of the world. Here's a link to some info and some translated poems. I wrote this after An Afternoon with Pablo Neruda Spent I this day lost in a dream of words, of rivers and laughter. Lost I my...
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.