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New “Zombie Zoo” Two Review

As some of you may know, the working title of my NON-ZOMBIE apocalypse novel, which includes only a very small amount of human flesh-eating, was ZOMBIE ZOO in reference to the greatest Tom Petty song never–to hit the charts.“Sometimes you’re so impulsive, you shaved all your hair, you look like Boris Karloff and you don’t even care.” That line captured Lizzie for me. So it makes sense that the next book in the series would be “Zombie Zoo Too” or “Two” perhaps. [Bonus points to GenXers who rem...

April is National Poetry Month: Inspired by Writers-Part I.

In April, I am going to be sharing some of my poetry inspired by other writers.Inspired by Mindy McGinnis‘NOT A DROP TO DRINK,a young adult dystopian that feels very real!The Road meets Little House on the Prairie.

Enough

A poem by Robert L. Slater

Water.

Losing it is something to regret

Loss of life is something somewhat less

Enough people, not enough water.

Air.

There’s enough of that with people gone

The empty oxygen fills in all

But the holes in our hearts.

I’ll have another inspired by...

Future Deserted Lands Works – Part II

All Is Silence keeps interesting company.

So, as part of the Murder in March promotion on Facebook, I got to talk about various stories I’ve got brewing in my head. I’m also reminding myself to create a series bible, so here is what I’ve got so far. I have a few more ideas under my hats, but here are concepts six through eleven: [My lists almost always go to Elevensies.]

Setting. My world, THE DESERTED LANDS, is an alternate future with the crux point of separation occurred around 2008. Major...

Young Adult Scavenger Hunt: Melissa Giorgio

Young Adult Scavenger Hunt:Melissa Giorgio is theauthor of theYA paranormal Silver Moon Sagaand at least 81 other stories and novels. Today I’m giving you a sneak peek of the second book in herSmoke and MirrorsYA fantasy series, The Burning Chaos, which is coming outJuly 12th, 2016. This is anexcerpt from the first chapter.The book Melissa is giving away for YASH is the first book in the series, The Fading Dusk.[Go to the YA Scavenger Huntpage to find out all about the hunt. Read to the botto...

March SmorgasBlog: 11 more short updates…

2016YA Scavenger Hunt startsMarch 29th and runs through April 3rd, 10 winners will win 20 books! All you have to do is checkout YA websites and count up numbers for your free entry! I’m on the Green Team! Last weekend I uploaded ALL IS SILENCE to StreetLib. It is now available worldwide in many, many places besides Amazon, B&N and Kobo. Hope to have STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS up over Spring Break. A month or so ago, I submittedALL IS SILENCE to Fiberead for the possibility of getting it translate...

THE 2016 YOUNG ADULT SCAVENGER HUNT

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No, we’re not scavenging young adults. We are, however, offering Young Adult novels asprizes for finding and adding up series of numbers. I am on the GREEN TEAM with all the awesome authors whose books you see here.

The description of this three day event is hereon the Deserted Lands Home page. For details on the other EIGHT TEAMS, go here to the host/founderColleen Houck’s site. You can participate in ALL NINE TEAM hunts. But with 20 authors on each team… well, I’...

Future Deserted Lands Works – Part I

So, as part of the Murder in March promotion on Facebook, I got to talk about various stories I’ve got brewing in my head. I’m also reminding myself to create a series bible, so here is what I’ve got so far. I have a few more ideas under my hats, but here are eleven concepts to start with, [My lists almost always go to Elevensies.], I’ll share the first five today.

Setting: My world, THE DESERTED LANDS, is an alternate future with the crux point of separation occurred around 2008. Major diffe...

To Live and Die in the Deserted Lands…

Or other universes…

So you want to die in one of my stories? Here’s what you do:

Go to the Facebook Murder in March page.

Click See All Posts. Scroll down or search for Slater.

Read the descriptions of the stories I’m planning on writing. Make a comment or suggestion about how you would want to die in that particular story.

I will have a series of posts this evening, 5 p.m. P.S.T., to talk more about potential deaths!

Ever Want to Die in a Novel? Murder in March

We all deserve a role in a novel? What if that role involved dying? Would you be a good guy, a bad guy, the ex? The best friend? Or the random Red-shirt?

The next logical question is how? Is it a fantasy? Are you eaten by a dragon, stabbed in the kidneys by a halfling, or flambéed in andorian brandyby a wicked wizard? Is it horror? Sorry , I can’t help you there.

Is it science fiction? A quick painful implosion in vacuum outside a space station, atoms scattered by a transporter beam, or dying...

Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings…

Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings

with as little pain as possible…

[originally published on the Pubslush Blog.]

Reading at my hometown library in Hoquiam.

I spent the 30-something years of my life as an extrovertedactor, director, playwright. Over the last decade I’ve transformed into a mostly introverted author.

Recently as I attended other authors’ readings and heard about how much stress being the center of attention in public brings them, I realized those skills of...