Thanks to everyone who joined me to make sure we'll have Special Edition Hardcovers, Paperbacks & Ebooks. It's not too late. (Not yet anyway). Super "Secret" Special Family, Friends & Fan reward tiers. Especially for folks who have ALL IS SILENCE already.

We interrupt our steady stream of Kickstarter promotion to post something Pre-apocalyptic. I wrote this homage to Pastor Neimoller on 3/15/25 (5 years since Covid lockdown.]. Our slide on the slippery slope had begun. Added the last tercet yesterday. Sad & angry. How many can we check off?

Deserted Lands Special Edition Kickstarter 77 hour FLASH GOAL At 22 backers, all will receive a No Man's Land bonus scene along WITH Lizzie drawn art. Print backers get the it printed on vellum papers to put in the book. Copy paste this or click on profile www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

OOps, thought I posted this yesterday, but if you don't actual hit the button, it just sits there until you do! We're actually approaching 7 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes, and 7 seconds... Come check it out and click [Remind Me] to help me with the search algorithm. Thanks.

Ouch. This one hurts this JoaTMoN (Jack of all Trades Master of None).

I NEED ADVICE: Do today’s readers want pictures of characters when being introduced to a book? A critique from someone 55+ suggested they don’t. I feel like the 3 pictures of Lizzie at the top set a tone and focus for the trilogy, but perhaps the other pictures might distract? What do you think?

Day 8 of 30 books 30 days on Google brings you Fimbulvinter's Fires by @amweald.com, a queer apocalyptic sci fi horror romance, which was briefly No 1 on amazon under LGBT Sci Fi. Let's make it No 1 on Google as well! #booksky #queersky books.bookfunnel.com/30days30book... 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢 🩷🧙 🪐🩸

11/11 Scavenger Hunt. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find all the elevens (11s) in this campaign. Some obvious, some hidden. Some just a click away [Hint: Only 1 click]. Some numbers, some words, some quantities. More details in next comments.

Dust cover for ALL IS SILENCE Kickstarter Special Edition. Stretch Goals ACHIEVED: Stories The Hand & Hope's Spring for all backers. NEXT Stretch Goal: Lizzie's handwritten diary entries & lyrics in all editions at 22 Followers OR 22 Backers OR $1111 in pledges. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

Try it. You'll like it. YA Apocaloptimistic fiction. Book II-III are a little dystopian, but all three main characters have satisfying (surviving and thriving mostly) ends. Ride shotgun with Lizzie on the this realistic teen-age apocalyptic road trip.

Special Ed. Kickstarter: hardcovers, paperbacks & ebooks ends in 13 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes & 13 seconds. Do a ELEVEN & 11 Scavenger hunt now. Ride shotgun on a post-apocaloptimistic teen-age road trip, coming out & coming of age. In the trilogy, Lizzie finds her chosen family, friends & herself.

I just backed Discover MORE with Jade: Canada & Mid Autumn Festival on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dis... So many cool Kickstarters [In addition to mine! ;-) www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...

Haven't been really active here. But haven't really been super active on social media anywhere. So, I've been spending many hours on a project. A Kickstarter so I can make special edition hardcovers of my Deserted Lands trilogy. IT FUNDED IN 55 HOURS. Here's the link if you want to check it out.

I just backed The Vampire Autopsies, by Brooks Peck, who I met on the MoPOP/EMP panel at Worldcon Seattle 2025. @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/639... P.S. I'm about to launch my own Kickstarter and this is kicking my start into getting it kicking.

Totally looking forward to reading some of my trilogy for my hometown folks. So glad that Hoquiam has a bookstore! Harbor Books. It's about time.

In late March. 7 of 11 checked off. Now, 10 of 11. I'm sure the Executive Branch of the U.S. Gov came for Union Members on an incidental basis. Please share this. As I was telling someone yesterday. Most of what I can to for democracy is writing to call attention to facts & uplift spirits & hopes.

Going to be selling books and hanging out with really cool fellow authors. My first time selling Lizzie's coming of age trilogy at a Pride fest. So, so excited. June 7th. White Center, WA. (Near Renton). @maiastrong01.bsky.social @brentarcherauthor.bsky.social

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Let's hang out Saturday at Village Books Bellingham. I'll be interviewed about my bat-virus pandemic series so scarily similar to Covid19 I stopped writing No Man's Land for two years. Now it's done & we're having a party. There will be swag for all, doorprizes, raffle signup and book inscribing.

Gonna be visiting this guy at Village Books this Saturday at 6pm I'm having a release party & book-signing. There'll be SWAG, door prizes & raffle. Tickets are $5, but you get a voucher to buy a book that night, mine or other's. My Brother James' Claustromseries. www.villagebooks.com/event/litliv...

Be a Samwise Gamgee. Support your friends, trust your instincts, be humble, lead with your heart, love potatoes, don't let one little spider ruin your day.

With respect for the words of Pastor Niemöller, an anti-semitic Nazi supporter until the Nazis put him in a Dachau for protesting their domination over protestant churches. We're 8 out of 11. I also should have said something about exchanging government officials who hold people acountable. 😢🤬

Shitzkrieging from today (something good at the bottom) - Trump announces 25 percent tariffs on imported cars - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deciding whether to strip FEMA of some of its key functions, such as helping rebuild after disasters. More in comments

Respect for words of Pastor Niemöller, an anti-semitic Nazi supporter until the Nazis put him in a Dachau for protesting their dominion over protestants. FIRST THEY CAME. AGAIN Robert L. Slater First they came for the Drag Queens And I did not speak out Because I was not a Drag Queen V Full poem V

@ruthmarcus.bsky.social, David Shipley, @anntelnaes.bsky.social & other former employees of the Big River guy should get together and create unpostednews.com. I just bought the domain for $13.27. You folkscan have it for that and $0.30, so they're all odd numbers. It could just be your landing page.

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Gone to BC today to celebrate my b-day before the border closes. Hyperbole? I would've thought so until last month. :-(

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News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT - www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

There are so many huge things to fear and discuss that I've found myself taking refuge in minor complaints, like "I can't find the precise kind of herbal tea that I want," or "These tomatoes are slightly too fibrous." There's something so satisfying about a minor gripe.

Elena and I could be 2/3 of the cast. I've already built hidden door bookcases.

Okay. Back in the game as an author who finishes and publishes. I can't control whether people love them, but I have to help the ones who might love them find them. [That's a clunky sentence, Rob, unless you read it out loud.] If you read it and liked it, leave a review. If U hated it, plz lv rvw.

You had me at "art is how we decorate space," then... "music is how we decorate time." As an author singer songwriter whose primary visual art is pumpkins, I heARTily endorse this.

People often ask me if I reread my books after they come out. 1. No. Never. Ew, David, ew. No. 2. I have no interest in reading my writing unless I'm writing/editing it. There is so much else to read. 3. I read the thing so many goddamned times while writing and revising. So many. YET STILL I ERR

I'm here cause "butterflies are free to fly..." Not here or on any social media a ton, but this seems like a fair replacement for some activities. Update: Book III in Lizzie's Deserted Lands trilogy) is available as an e-book on KOBO. It will be available worldWIDE on 12/12. See reply for print.