Robert L. "Rob" Slater
@robertlslater.bsky.social
I wrote a bat virus pandemic series in 2012 eerily echoing Covid. Finally finished trilogy. Now it's alt-history! ;-)
Get it here: kickstarter.com/projects/robertlslater/inscribed-deserted-lands-hardcovers
Author/singer/songwriter/teacher/actor/and...
Get it here: kickstarter.com/projects/robertlslater/inscribed-deserted-lands-hardcovers
Author/singer/songwriter/teacher/actor/and...
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.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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?
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?
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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?
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.
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...
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...
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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...
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.
Come check it out and click [Remind Me] to help me with the search algorithm. Thanks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
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).
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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?
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?
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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?
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?
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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
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🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢 🩷🧙 🪐🩸
books.bookfunnel.com/30days30book...
🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢 🩷🧙 🪐🩸
30 days 30 books, All on Google Play
Did you know you can buy and read books on Google? With the Playbooks app available on both appstore and playstore, you can not only read book available on the google bookstore, but can upload any epub...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢 🩷🧙 🪐🩸
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.
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.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
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...
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...
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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...
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.
Ride shotgun with Lizzie on the this realistic teen-age apocalyptic road trip.
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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.
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.
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.
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
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...
So many cool Kickstarters [In addition to mine! ;-) www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...
Discover MORE with Jade: Canada & Mid Autumn Festival
Two new picture books exploring Canadian adventures, family, food & traditions in either bilingual Cantonese/English or English!
www.kickstarter.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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...
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.
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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.
@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.
The Vampire Autopsies
In the early 1700s, doctors exhumed and autopsied a number of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. Read their true, strange findings.
www.kickstarter.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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.
@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.
June 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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.
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.
June 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
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
May 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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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👀 #Booksky are you looking for some #bookish deals? 👀
My #Fantasy & #Scifi fair has 100+ #free & discounted #books + #KindleUnlimited finds! There's also a HUGE #giveaway at the bottom!
⚔️Enter: clcannon.net/bookfair 🚀
📚 #Win a #Kindle, #Owlcrate, & a #Starbucks card!📚
#readergiveaway #freebooks
My #Fantasy & #Scifi fair has 100+ #free & discounted #books + #KindleUnlimited finds! There's also a HUGE #giveaway at the bottom!
⚔️Enter: clcannon.net/bookfair 🚀
📚 #Win a #Kindle, #Owlcrate, & a #Starbucks card!📚
#readergiveaway #freebooks
May 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
👀 #Booksky are you looking for some #bookish deals? 👀
My #Fantasy & #Scifi fair has 100+ #free & discounted #books + #KindleUnlimited finds! There's also a HUGE #giveaway at the bottom!
⚔️Enter: clcannon.net/bookfair 🚀
📚 #Win a #Kindle, #Owlcrate, & a #Starbucks card!📚
#readergiveaway #freebooks
My #Fantasy & #Scifi fair has 100+ #free & discounted #books + #KindleUnlimited finds! There's also a HUGE #giveaway at the bottom!
⚔️Enter: clcannon.net/bookfair 🚀
📚 #Win a #Kindle, #Owlcrate, & a #Starbucks card!📚
#readergiveaway #freebooks
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.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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...
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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...
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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.
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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. 😢🤬
We're 8 out of 11.
I also should have said something about exchanging government officials who hold people acountable. 😢🤬
March 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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. 😢🤬
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
- 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
March 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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
- 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
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
March 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
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.
March 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
@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.