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#7 on “Bestseller” List KOBO YA Dystopian

I am flying right now. My specially priced eBook for ALL IS SILENCE on KOBO is currently #7 on the YA Dystopian list, right underneath Veronica Roth’s Divergent series.

Had a great workshop yesterday supporting local authors, KOBO and Village Books and their efforts in the eBook publishing arena. I’ve also been invited to do a guest blog-post for Kobo Writing Life’s blog about my partnership with Village Books. If you click on this link and use the promo code ‘villagebooks’ you can get an...

News: All Is Silence, E-Book Workshop & Award Finalist.

Hey folks,

Shipment of the first 50 copies, the pre-publication edition, will arrive by next Wednesday, January 29th! There are only about 76 copies not already reserved/purchased.

If you are local Whatcom or Skagit folks, I will be appearing as a “local author” at Village Books workshop:

VB Writes…Ebook Publishing Workshop with Kobo Writing Life





Start:01/25/2014 12:00-3:00 pm.

Oh, and, ALL IS SILENCE is a finalist in the Dante Rossetti Young Adult fiction contest. It’s great company including...

ALL IS SILENCE: Out in e-Book

Hey folks,
All Is Silence is available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon and very soon on Kobo as an ebook. It's specially priced at $3.99 until the print release on February 18th.

If you want a hard-cover, there are 20 copies left of the pre-publication edition that I should have in my hands by the end of the week and in the mail by middle of next week.

Lots more exciting news. Stay tuned...

Thanks for all the support.
Rob

Pre-Publication Edition is Released/Printing

Hey, hopeful future faithful readers.

ALL IS SILENCE pre-publicationis available as pre-order here and out in eBook format for the price of $3.99 at Barnes & Noble,Amazon, Kobo[This week], and many more [over the next month].The pre-publication print run has about 20 copies left out of the 50 I ordered from the printers. It is also specially priced, as I cover the cost of shipping and handling if you order it in advance. I’ve also decided to print a hard-cover run of 50 books, more informa...

The New Zoo Review… Okay, not really…

But it is a new news review. Check it out. Click on the picture for the link to this issue.

Sniffles, Sneezles, Stocking Sales and Giveaways.

Almost the end of 2013. Wow. What a year.

Ending it with a GoodReads Giveaway and a sale on the Outward Bounds science fiction and poetry collection.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

All is Silence

by Robert L. Slater

Giveaway endsJanuary 02, 2014.

See the giveaway detailsat Goodreads.

Enter to win

Winter Wonderland

As I sit here watching the snow fall outside, the snow is also beginning to fall in the chapter of the book I’m doing FINAL edits on. Well, okay, final story edits. The copy edits are starting to come in 5 chapters at a time. Then off to the printers. The final cover is done. Click here to see a low res, bigger version. Thanks to the reviewers who provided book blurbs. And to Pintado who did amazing design and redesign work.

Things are moving slightly lower than I had planned, but in reali...

More ARCs, Final Drafts, More Giveaways…

Well, as 2013 draws to a close, I find myself working to stay vertical. I’m doing final edits before sending ALL IS SILENCE off to Copy Editors. Then I’ll have it off to the printers to be able to deliver Pre-publication editions to the big 4 (or so) reviewers and any one who has preordered copies.

Tomorrow I’ll pick up the second set of ARCs. Hopefully the glossy cover does a better job getting the cover artists colors vibrant. Then those ARCs go off to the ‘biggies’ and out to a few sele...

GREEN TUESDAY SALE!

Hey folks,

Tired of Black Friday where people stumble over each other to get more things? What better way to compensate than by going GREEN? Buy eBooks for $0.99, 99 cents! Help save the planet, starving writers and give yourself something to read when you’re waiting in line for that special deal, a latte or in the returns line after the holidays are over. Books that will last a lifetime, or until you delete them, for about 1/3 the price of that latte!

“Outward Bound” ON SALE for $0.99. Fil...

November sadness and gladness

Well. That was a month.

NANOWRIMO 2013: Began well and kept a steady pace, but wrote on shuffle without enough story arc in my mind. Last year I’d spent 6-8 months thinking about the first 2/3 of the novel which equaled 58,000 words. This year, I think I wrote all the scenes I’d thought about and ended with 35,000 words. Still, not shabby. Biggest month of the year for writing.

The distraction for NANOWRIMO was last years NANOvel ALL IS SILENCE, and oh, what a wonderful distraction it is. T...