Robert L. Slater's Blog, page 24

ALL IS SILENCE cover design gets a Gold Star

Now a Gold Star winner from Joel Friedlander: “A well-balanced and attractive ebook cover designed to draw us into the story.”

10 Days and counting… Release date/End of Pre-Pub Prices…

Hey folks,

So much is happening as I approach the release date for my debut novel. All is Silence. The KOBO eBook is hovering around #7 on the Young Adult SF/Dystopian charts. I’ve sold copies in France, Canada, UK and US. There are mentions on websites in Hungary, and Australia, it’s available as pre-order in all the Big River stores internationally. When I google ["All Is Silence" Slater] I get 5-6 pages of results and only about half are directly attributable to me!

I have students at my...

9 more days at Pre-Pub Price

All is Silence will continue to be sold at $3.99 for eBook on all major platforms and $11.95 for a personalized, SIGNED, shipped print copy from my website www.desertedlands.com/pre-order-all-i....

On February 15th, my 47th B-day I will endeavor to change all prices in anticipation of the February 18th release. Ebooks will be $6.99 and the print price will be $10.99 + $0.96 tax and $3.05 shipping and handling for a signed copy.

Various worldwide vendors will provide it to you for less without my signature. If you wish to buy one that way and would like a signed bookplate. I will have a PO Box listed by the 18th.

Thanks for all the support.

Read on,
Rob

#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...