Robert L. Slater's Blog, page 14

Get Ready, Get Set… It’s almost Yet!

Now is almost yet! I’ve asked those of you who are regulars to these parts to wait to buy your ebook/book version of STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS until the book goes live. This will give the book a boost if bunch of folksall buy it close together. This increases its visibility and hopefully more people will fall in love with the cover, realize it’s book II and buy book one as well! So. It is live on VillageBooks.com (Signed with $0.99 shipping and handling! If you want it personalized, leave a note...

SmorgasBlog Post III: Worldcon, Woops and WATTYS 2015!

Robert Slater sawRobert Sawyer at aSpider Robinson play, while Spider joined us by Skype! I saw and heard Robert Silverberg’s hilarious, tambourine accompanied plea for peace like they had at the 1968 Worldcon in Berkley. In between the tear gas and cannabis smoke wandered the Hari Krishnas chanting calmly. Also got to nod a greating to him. Hadn’t seen him in about 10 years. He looked great.

I missed theHeinlein Blood Drives and myautograph session was mostly a bust other than as a test run...

WATTYS 2015 – Peoples Choice Award

So, just a quick note. I survived Worldcon/Sasquan with some great stories and some not so great ones. Prepping for my Reading for STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS at Village Books THIS Friday at 7pm!But more about that later this week.

The purpose of this post is to let you know about WATTPAD’S People’s Choice Awards for the 2015 WATTYS. All Is Silence is eligible! Please consider voting for it. Yes, it actually is a popularity contest. What the book needs is votes between August 24th and 31st! Those...

SmorgasBLOG Post II: WorldCon, Countdown Deal, Book Release.

In honor of two years publishing ebooks, I’m running aWORLDCO(u)Ntdown Sale! TOILS AND SNARES – a short Deserted lands novel at 42,000+ wordswill be marked down from its regular price of$3.99, on a countdown sale for $0.99-$2.99!

eBookSodawill start the ball rolling Wednesday, August 19thfeaturing it at a price point of $0.99! That price will continue for three more days with BettyBookFreak doing a Daily Pick listing on 08/20/15, Book Barbarian on 8/21/15 and Robin Reads on 8/22/15. BKnights...

SMORGASBLOG POST: Please Don’t Buy My Book-Part II and more…

Okay, excuse the random catch-all of paragraphs that make up this post. If you want to skip all of itand get straight to finding out how to read STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS for FREE before it comes out at the end of the month press here. HERE. A week agoI discovered I that I’dsold two copies of Straight Into Darkness on Amazon Kindle. That’s pretty exciting. I hope they are sales to people who have never heard of me. If you are thinking about buyingStraight Into Darkness on Kindle, AND...

Please Don’t Buy My Book… Yet. Part II – Free Reads Offers

Okay, excuse the random catch-all of paragraphs that make up this post. If you want to skip all of itand get straight to finding out how to read STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS for FREE before it comes out at the end of the month press here. HERE. A week agoI discovered I that I’dsold two copies of Straight Into Darkness on Amazon Kindle. That’s pretty exciting. I hope they are sales to people who have never heard of me. If you are thinking about buyingStraight Into Darkness on Kindle, AND...

10,123 word post [Please don’t be afraid to click]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this post is worth10,123.

I don’t mention these often, but here’s a pretty phenomenal review in the Skagit Valley Herald for a twenty month old book. Thanks to Brian Soneda at the Mount Vernon Public Library.

Preorder up on Smashwords.

Preorder up on Apple iBooks thanks to Smashwords.

A cool screenshot of ALL IS SILENCE on Worldcat.

International appearance in Aukland, Australia!

And another in a WA library. Perth in Western Australia that...

Whelmed, but not in Europe. What’s up?

As I power through the last month before release of my second novel, I realized that I hadn’t updated myevents page. Since I had three to add I thought I would share it with you. If you meet me at these events there will always be special deals on my books and an opportunity to talk. See you out there.

August 19-23, 2015: Worldcon 2015— “Sasquan” The 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.Spokane, Washington, USA– Attending. Reading/Signing/Possible Podcast. 28 August 2015: Novel Release Par...

Time Pressure and a Turkish Translation…

Well… Time pressure is upon me. I’ve got deadlines coming up and time to meet them. Will I have the stubbornness to keep my nose to the literary grindstone and git ‘er done? I’m planning on it, but next time, I am not setting a date for the release before I have the beta copy in my hot little hands. Really. I’m serious this time.

It’s not easy being an optimist. And I seem fairly incurable in that area. If I fall on my face this time, perhaps it will teach me a lesson. But I’m still thinking...

On Video: Changes ~ Author Conversations

Thanks to Sally Ember for a lovely and informative intro to Hangouts On Air. Check out her website if you are any kind of author and would like to participate. Too many, “uh, um,” kinds of pauses. But that’s what happens when things are completely unscripted, no?