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Young Adult Scavenger Hunt Winners

GO for the GOLD!

The Spring 2017 Young Adult Scavenger Hunt is over. Participation was amazing! Thousands of folks meeting 100 YA authors and getting bonus materials.

The GOLD TEAM winner of 20 Young Adult novels is:

Miranda G. in Rexburg ID.

She will receive a signed 1st edition of ALL IS SILENCE – Book I in the Deserted Lands series along with 19 other print YA novels!

My winners for my own YASH giveaway are:

Susan in Maryland – an ALL IS SILENCE t-shirt. Anna in California – an ALL IS SIL...

Young Adult Scavenger Hunt: Special Guest and Bonus Materials

If you get stuck on #YASH17? Go HERE for direct links!

Welcome reader to my third Young Adult Scavenger Hunt! YASH author & organizer Colleen Houck wanted to give

readers access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors… and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt.

Add up the clues, and enter for a prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hu...

Rob’s wRiting Residency – Not at work working…

Tomorrow is an interesting day. I’ve been teaching less, so I can write more, one less class a day since early December. I got a lot of new writing done in December and January, slowed down in February. Now instead of writing before I go to work a little late, I will be doing my writing time inside of my school day. Due to complications of scheduling our students who need both chemistry and calculus in the morning, I will be teaching a class and then NOT WORKING AT WORK for 70 minutes, then t...

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A REAL AUTHOR WHEN… PART II

So we all hear about authors who love particular phrases, sometimes they’ll appear dozens of times in a novel. For me that phrase for ALL IS SILENCE was Too Much Testosterone or TMT. There are THREE [!] times it appears in the novel. A bit much? Yes, but it seems to be a good enough concept that other people are latching onto it.  I liked it, so I put it as a quote is on GoodReads. [image error]

Not too much later, I found memes of it on WordPorn and Quoting.

Then, surprise, surprise, I found it on the he...

February Smorgasblog

Here’s a quick update. Warning: This post goes to eleven…

Here is the new Cover art for CLick to see Full-Size

TOILS AND SNARES. I turned 50 on February 15th. My kids are sending me to SPACE CAMP! Which reminds me, “Not to 50″ Series went to 55 with Part V on www.robslater.com. Missed my goal of getting Parts IV and VI out, but will get to them in March.

You know you’re a real author when… Part I

Credited Quote on the left. Actual quotes [there were three!! OMG, authors who love their words.] are below.

 

 

I kind of forgot that I officially released All Is Silence February 18th 2014, so it just passed its third birthday. But it’s release party didn’t happen until March 14th.

If it hasn’t already happened, sometime in the next few weeks the 10,000 person will likely have finished reading All Is Silence.

I’ve sold nearly 2000 copies and more than 8,000 people world-wide have read it in...

All is silence in the world down under

ONE MORE DAY AT $0.99 [and 0.99 in most other world currencies!]

A massive thanks to Patty Jansen, who lends her considerable publishing clout out monthly to indie authors who want a boost.

She’s an amazing cross-genre writer who deserves to be better know in the United States. Since I’ve been doing well in Australia [Those Australian’s love them some Apocalypse!], I’m hoping that doing her promo will help bump me up towards another BookBub promotion. Please check out Patty’s $0.99 deals and...

Early Birthday. Give me a gift and get one back. Two days only….

On the fifteenth of February, I’ll turn 50! It’s actually kind of exciting. I’m happy to be where I am. Not feeling apocalyptic at all…

If you’d like to get me an early birthday present, You can download  ALL IS SILENCE for only 0.99 cents, for the next TWO days. February 4th & 5th.

Kobo | iBooks | B&Noble Nook  | Amazon Kindle | Smashwords | GooglePlay

Prices are reduced around the world. So All Is Silence In the World…

If you’ve already bought it and read it, please leave a review on Amazon...

January Smorgasblog…

Turning 50 in February. There will be a great sale! And I am truly happy and blessed about hitting middle age! Which reminds me, “Not to 50″ Series continues with Part III on www.robslater.com . Hopefully have at least two more by the big day. My high school, Windward, a most awesome place to work and go to school celebrates its 14th birthday this week. I’ve been there since 2010ish and absolutely love it. Another birthday this month. Lizzie Gooden-Guerrero turned 15 on January 11th in an alt...

All Is Silence in A Small World After All…

OMG. [My thirteen year old rolled her eyes when she saw this in one of my comments, so I thought it should feature prominently in this post.]

Tonight I headed over to my favorite bookstore of all time, Village Books in Bellingham. A friend I’ve never met on the far side of the country sent me a note saying he’d purchased two of my books online from Village Books [they ship them anywhere in the U.S. for only $0.99] and asked me to personalize them. Since I had to take my 13-year-old to a violi...