Robert L. Slater's Blog, page 20
July 14, 2014
Digital Book Day/Guest Post/Word Counts/Steampunk Festival
Welcome, all new visitors and everyone who took part in Digital BookDay. Thanks to CJ Lyons for all the hard work and the wear and tear on the servers. Thanks to all you readers out there who find new books, review themand tell your friends about them.
Today I have a guest post up on Selah J Tay-Song’s blogabout creating a fictional near future world. Though blogging and guest posting may cut into the fiction writing time, it is fun and it forces me to reflect on my methods. I’ve written 16,00...
July 13, 2014
Free eBook of ALL IS SILENCE 24 hours TODAY 7/14
Please check out all the fantastic authors giving away e-books for free. Most of them are self-published. Take a chance, try someone new. I highly recommend, Mark Leslie.
Here’s my link for All Is Silence. [If it doesn't work go here.] Yes, it will bring you back to my site, but if you jump through the hoop it increase the referrals to the sponsor CJ Lyons!
July 7, 2014
Slater is Streaking in Seattle (and Salt Lake City).
Sick of Seattle by the Smithereens. Sleepless in Seattle. Stuck In Seattle with Slater’s Airport blues. And now, streaking in Seattle. Basically, alliterating all over.
So, after screwing up parking and missing my flight, I logged onto the SeaTac Airport wifi and discovered that I’ve sold a book a day on Amazon for three days, a book a week through Neilsen Bookscan for three weeks [Brick and mortar bookstores that report sales] and I’ve written at least 500 words of fiction a day for nine days...
July 1, 2014
Why write a book for an audience that doesn’t read?
From 1999 to 2012 I taught at small alternative schools. One of the challenges as an English teacher is finding books that can hook students who did not grow up reading. Most students have one book that they read and loved: The Giver, Of Mice and Men, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Witch of Blackbird Pond, My Side of the Mountain, Island of Blue Dolphins,Hunger Games. I wanted to write a book for the kids who have gotten to high school without finding that book that they couldn’t put d...
June 19, 2014
Updates: Analog Review, #46 on Amazon, Teen Writer’s Conference…
No new content this week. Sorry. Working on a post tentatively titled: Why I wrote a novel for a target audience that doesn’t read…
Tomorrow, Friday, June 20th, I will be volunteering at the Write On! Teen Writer’s Conference. Event is presented byWhatcom Young Writersand Village Books, and co-sponsored by the Fairhaven Village Inn, Whatcom Educational Credit Union, poetrynight, Peoples Bank, and Lithtex NW Printing Solutions. For more information and to register, visitwww.writeonconference.co...
June 14, 2014
Choose your own reading adventure at Village Books tonight…
Check out my local author friends and I at Village Bookstonight. I read first at 7pm and at the end we’ll do panel questions.
June 10, 2014
Ladies and Gentlemen, Class of 2014. Sunscreen. Really!
Notes from a Commencement Address to Windward High School’s Class of 2014.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Class of 2014. Sunscreen. Really
What is Rob known for? Recycling. Not throwing things away? So the best way to offer advice? Recycle it. Borrow from the best. So, I’ve got advice from Shakespeare to Suess, Anne Frank to Ani Difranco, Heinlein to Hemingway, Mother Teresa to Twisted Sister, Spider, My Aunt and the Beatles, Tolkein to Rowling, and Socrates to Slater [cough].
Dr. Seuss: Don’t cry becaus...
June 3, 2014
My Path to Indie Publication: Part X—Finding Equilibrium
Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’sPath to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. ReadPath to Indie Publication:Part I.Part II.Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI.Part VII. Part VIII.Part IX.
Part X—Finding Equilibrium: the agony and the ecstasy of new authorhood.*
With the success of the three readings equaling sales of more than 70 books, I was very hyped about attending Norwescon 37. I created and ordere...
June 1, 2014
Two great new reviews… and a sneak peak of the next Deserted Lands novel…
Two great new reviews [Hint: If you want to help out Rob's discoverability and have read any of his books, the links are here, all in one place, to rate and review.] and a sneak peak of the next Deserted Lands novel…
Virginia Herrick for Chanticleer Reviews:
All Is Silenceis [a] suspenseful, sensitive debut novel… juxtaposes the tragic (a young girl singing at a loved one’s deathbed) with the darkly comic (plenty of unused dishes–throw the dirty ones in the backyard!)… grabs our heartstrings… k...
May 26, 2014
My Path to Indie Publication: Part IX– Party On.
Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’sPath to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. ReadPath to Indie Publication:Part I.Part II.Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI.Part VII. Part VIII.
Party On. *
One of the ideas I had picked up from Mary Robinett Kowal’s Debut Author lessons, an excellent and concise primer for how to act pro as a newbie author, was that I needed professional author photos. I had been cross...
