Robert L. Slater's Blog, page 22

Oh, the Places I went on my Spring Break

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A poem by Robert L. Slater, inspired by Theodore Geisel

In the spring of the year of twenty fourteen

There was found a kind author with a penchant for green

He printed his novels on backs of DOOSpaper*

And tried to recycle all of the newspaper

When to his hometown he returned for a read

His welcome surprised him, too true, yes, indeed

Old friends and family called him all Robbie

And they sat and they talked in the library lobby

After the show, many books he did sell

Then off to the pizza place still...

Dante Rossetti Award Labels & New Cover

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Here they are:

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My Path to Indie Publication: Part VI–Playing the Professional.

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Part VI: Playing the Professional.

My 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

Playing the Professional *

I had started marketing as soon as I knew I would be publishing the novel. I took my Twitter account created the previous year, created a similar named Google+ account and began posting o...

Coming Home: What is a moment when it’s gone…

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My first reading as a published novelist in the library where I discovered science fiction went very well. I had old and new friends, family and, hopefully, some new fans. We had 30+ people, I sold 17 books and had plenty of hugs and fond remembrances and fond farewells with future meetings hoped for.

I ended the evening at Casa Mia with my parents and my partner, Elena. The pizza was excellent and not quite what I remember, but the salad was exactly the same. I also ran into three other Ha...

My Path to Indie Publication: Part V–Reality and the Instability of Time

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My Path to Indie Publication:Part V–Reality and the Instability of Time, a.k.a.Learning to Use Scotty’s Law of Time Estimation (or even less well known, how to a write a blog post with too long a title…)

My 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.

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[Author's Note...

Happy Birthday, Breakfast Club; Happy Birth, Desert Club

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Hey children of the 80s and their children,

On the auspicious occasion of the 30th Birthday of the movie [NEWSFLASH: It's actually the 30th anniversary of the date they got Saturday School. In reality, the release date was actually February 15th, 1985--my 18th birthday!], The Breakfast Club, I would like to announce the birth of The Desert Club [Pronounced Dessert] aka The Deserters, fans of The Deserted Lands series [okay, so there's only one book and a short story out so far...]

Lizzie has...

Hoquiam — Hometown Library Reading

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Here it is, a reading by me in my most favoritelibrary of all time. The Hoquiam Timberland Library. Please let people know. There will be doorprizes. You can buy my books and I’llsign them. Along with me you can evenmake a donation to the Hoquiam Library, one of the coolest Carnegie Libraries in the nation. I will donate a dollar to the Friends of the Library for every person who shows up. Thanks. I’ll see you there.

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News: Delay on Path to Indie Publication, Amtrak Residency Application and ABNA

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Following hard on the heels of a wonderful release party is the end of my teaching quarter, so the Path to Indie Publication Part V on time management, will be delayed. Holding for titters of derision. . . .

Okay. March 29th I will be doing a reading at the Hoquiam Timberland Library where I spent so much of my childhood!

In other news, I did not make the cut for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. In hindsight, I think I should have submitted it as Science Fiction rather than young adult, bu...

My Path to Indie Publication: Part IV–Synchronicity

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My Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’s Path to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. Read Part I:Path to Indie Publication. Part II.Part III.

Synchronicity *

I had a book. I had a title. I couldn’t stand the ending. Rewrote it. Waited. Fiddled. Hated it. Cut it. Waited. Rewrote it. Close.

I discovered the Speculative Fiction writers group at Village Books and was chosen for the Bellingham Herald’s ann...

My Path to Indie Publication Part IV–Synchronicity

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My Path to Indie Publication Series is a companion series to Marshall Ryan Maresca’s Path to Publication. I have been avidly reading Marshall’s posts since I discovered his blog. Read Part I:Path to Indie Publication. Part II.Part III.

Synchronicity *

I had a book. I had a title. I couldn’t stand the ending. Rewrote it. Waited. Fiddled. Hated it. Cut it. Waited. Rewrote it. Close.

I discovered the Speculative Fiction writers group at Village Books and was chosen for the Bellingham Herald’s ann...