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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 08/08/2026

Going on an Alaskan bear viewing adventure.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 11/01/2026

This must be the universal sign for NOPE!! #dogsky #alaskasky

Snow tracks that abruptly stop and turn around in the snow

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 24/11/2025

Monday morning #5AMWritersClub can be magical sometimes. Came home to the moose in the back yard after picking up my boys from the airport. Everything is good. #writesky #skywriters #AKRomance #writingcommunity

Two moose- a baby and a mama- eating tree branches in a snow covered back yard.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 27/10/2025

Snow happened last night. We got snow dust a couple of days ago, so I knew it was coming. Winter is coming, bitches. And I am here for it all. #5AMWritersClub #writingcommunity #writesky #skywriters #AKRomance

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 20/10/2025

That was the view from my cabin yesterday morning before I left the coast. It was fucking spectacular. #5AMWritersClub #writingcommunity #writesky #skywirters

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 18/10/2025

This is the picture of the start of my morning. I am not sad about this view. #5AMWritersClub

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 27/09/2025

#5AMWritersClub is all up in Croatia. It is in the fifth hour of the morning where I am currently. #Croatia #writesky #skywriters #writingcommunity #AKRomance

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 08/06/2025

Slept in my own condo in my own bed last night. It was AWESOME. Slept really well. Now, to write all the words! Some pics of my condo. #5AMWritersClub #writesky #skywriters #AKRomance

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 11/03/2025

My revision and addition is done. So, I got my rights back on a sport romance novella. Well, two, really. I am going to rerelease them myself. With new covers. With about 30K words added to make them novels. Just finished the addition this morning. Spell-check is next, then off to the editor.

Cover of a book with a baseball player titled, Home Run, by D.R. Slaten.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 09/03/2025

I'm at the retreat!! Yay!!!

Picture of a bunch of ladies around a table at retreat.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 01/03/2025

Gin and tonic... for the win. Hendricks Midsummer's Solstice plus Fevertree Lime and Yuzu. Or was it Yuzu and lime?!?! Who the hell knows. It's delicious whatever it is. #cocktails

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 28/02/2025

My favorite avocado toast. I know, I know… it’s a love it or hate it thing. 🍽️ #lunch

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 18/02/2025

Made it. Barely. Good morning, #5AMWritersClub. Here's my toll.

Flower from Costa Rica. I don't know the name. But it's red with a white fuzzy center and little buds coming up out of the center as well.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 13/02/2025

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub. I feel like I am not writing as many words as I'd like. I'm distracted by all the animals surrounding me here. Here's a little sample of my morning visitors. #writingcommunity #writesky #skywriters

White faced capuchin monkey in a tree branch

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 28/01/2025

I am in the planning stages of RE-releasing my first two titles in my SPORTS SERIES. I haven't even come up with a name. But I have decided that book 3 is going to star a RUGBY player. #HatTrick #HomeRun #rugby #sportsromance #romancelandia #romance #booksky

It's a novel, Home Run, by D.R. Slaten. The cover is s picture of a baseball player. The title is in red, the authors name is in black. The tagline, Noah has the chance to make more than one wish come true..., is also in black.

It's the second book titled, Hat Trick, by D.R. Slaten. The title and authors name are in blue. the cover has a soccer player in the foreground and white roses and rings in the background.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 19/01/2025

Currently reading #Booksky💙📚#TBRPile

The novel, The Navigator's Children, in the Last King of Osten Ard series. The cover is black and there is a silver ornate mask. The name of the book and author's name are in white. The secondary title and accolade are in steel blue.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 03/01/2025

Snow in the backyard. It's melting already. And it showed up two days early. #DMV #photo #iphonecamera #cameraphone

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 01/01/2025

Sounds about right. antic noun an·tic ˈan-tik 1: an attention-drawing, often wildly playful or funny act or action : CAPER —usually plural childish antics adjective 1a: characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity an antic farce b: whimsically lighthearted : FROLICSOME

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 31/12/2024

What’s for dinner. Fettuccine with meat sauce. #dinner #whatsfordinner

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 28/12/2024

Naked and Famous Cocktail. Did I tell you that I found yellow chartreuse earlier? Well, this is a thing you can make with it. Yummo

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 26/12/2024

I bought new calendars at Erin Condren in Austin, Texas, last October at RWA 2024. It was a special outing. It's starts Jan. 1. I can't wait to use it. And now I have my spreadsheet migrated to Numbers- mostly because my brain likes its graphics better. Getting shit done, y'all.

Massive fake tree inside Erin Condren in Austin, Texas

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 26/12/2024

Christmas Day dinner... Standing rib roast.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 26/12/2024

Christmas Eve dinner was pasta with 3 sauces. It resembles the Italian flag.

Pasta with pesto sauce, alfredo sauce, and ragu... in the colors of the Italian flag

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 24/12/2024

Mornings are super nice sometimes. #Virginia and #sunrise are words that look good together. Plus, I thought is was a nice, quiet #photo that sets a good tone for today. Christmas Eve should be cozy. #photography #iphonecamera #cameraphone

Winter Sunrise: Photo of landscape of tree with the sunrise. Lots of clouds in the foreground. Orange and yellow in the background. the trees are in silhouette.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 16/12/2024

If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped. Cordoba, Spain The Mezquita and Roman bridge lit up at night. #cordoba #mezquita #photography #iphonecamera

Cordoba, Spain lit up at night with the Roman bridge in the forefront. The Mezquita is at the very top of the hill.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 06/12/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 20/20

The Novel, A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle. the title is in white and name is in antique gold on a black night sky with stars. Around the night sky is a large border filled with illustrations from the book. There are trees and horses and kids and women who look like witches and hills and all the fanciful things. There is a large building with a green door that the children are standing in front of. This book is a Newberry Award winner.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 05/12/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 19/20

The novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. The book cover is magenta and the scroll and words and cameo portrait of a young woman are in gold leaf. the book is turned slightly to the right which allows the binding to show as well.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 04/12/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 18/20

The novel, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. The book is classic hardcover bound in leather. the leather is green. The scroll work around the book is in green and purple leaves interspersed with blue and purple flowers and yellow butterflies. There are two orange leaves in the scroll at the bottom of the book. The title and author's name is in gold leaf. All the art work and words are encompassed four straight lines running around the perimeter.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 03/12/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 17/20

The novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. the cover of the book is in electric blue with pennants and the words in a scarlet red.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 02/12/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 16/20

The novel, The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. The cover is light blue. The title and the author's name are in white. There is no picture. But the blue background looks uneven in hue. Speckled, almost.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 02/12/2024

Europe has really cool door knockers. So much diversity. But I gotta say, the lion was one which I found repeated in various locations. In #Malaga #Spain #photography #cameraphone #iphonecamera

Gold lion's head door knocker on a dark wood door.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 02/12/2024

#5AMWritersClub toll is a picture from a writing retreat in Spain. Sometimes, I love my life. Today, as my flight got delayed and then cancelled... I do not like my life. But then I look at this pic and I love my life again. #writingcommunity #writesky #writers #authors #PNR #Romantasy #scriptsky

An isthmus is jutting out into the sea and the sun is dawning. The town on the piece jutting out into the ocean has buildings which are backlit.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 01/12/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 15/20

The novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The cover is Robin's egg blue with a pig in all white with the title and the author's name over the center of the pig. In the upper left hand corner is a seal indicating that this is an authorized edition by the Orwell Estate.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 01/12/2024

When we lived in #Kuwait, I had a portrait of Java done by Phillip Kemble. I think it is fabulous. Plus, it was for charity. #portrait #painting #Q8 #dogsofbluesky #havaneseofbluesky #dogs

Portrait of my dog, Java, who is a black and white tuxedo Havanese. She has a yellow bow in her hair. And her name is written in green in the lower right hand corner.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 30/11/2024

‪D.R. Slaten‬ ‪@drslaten.bsky.social‬ · 1d 💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 14/20

The novel, Pawn of Prophecy, by David Eddings. Book 1 of the Belgariad.

The cover is a landscape of treed hills with large pine trees in the foreground.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 29/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 13/20

The novel, The Secret of the Old Clock, by Nancy Drew, Book 1, by Carolyn Keene. The cover shows a seated young girl holding a mantle clock with its cover open and the winding key in her hand. She is sitting in an outdoor setting which looks like a lightly wooded meadow. The sky is deep blue.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 29/11/2024

Day after a major holiday... back to the grind. No rest for the weary. Trudge along. Seriously, after so much family... um, it's nice to get back to my quiet writing time. #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #Scriptsky #Booksky #PNR #Romantasy #amediting #amwriting

Stained glass window in the shape of a flower. With hues of blue, aqua, and magenta. The entire window is round.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 28/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 12/20

The novel, A Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. The book is a yellow cover with blue, white, and dark gold scrolling around the title of the book and the name of the author. There is a small male figure in period clothing- it looks like an evening coat, knickers, knee socks, and loafers depicted in red ink. No hat is in evidence.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 27/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 11/20

The novel, Are you There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume. the cover is a light baby blue with a young girl in a short plaid dress with a brown backpack. She is twisted sideways trying to fix her shoe. The girl is white with brown hair.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 27/11/2024

The day before Turkey Day. Gobble, Gobble, for those who celebrate American Thanksgiving. Going to get in some words before I prep for tomorrow. Here's a photo from a retreat in Spain #5AMwritersclub #Writingcommunity #writers #authors #booksky #writesky #scritpsky #PNR #Romantasy #Romancelandia

Sunset along the coast of Malaga. There are red hues to the right while the sky is a faded blue on the left. In the foreground, there is a lighted area to gaze out over the water. There are trees in the background to the right in front of the setting sun.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 26/11/2024

More Cacti. This time Saguaro cactus. There is a whole mountain of them in #Tucson #photography #photos #cameraphone #iphonecamera

Landscape with a large saguaro cactus in the foreground with lots of them scattered over a small hillside.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 26/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 10/20

The novel, Christine, by Stephen King.

The cover is black. King's name is in red. Christine is in a graduated Chrome color goring from silver on top to a foreboding blood red on the bottom. On top of the name is a white, windblown skeleton with its mouth slightly agape.

A novel is in gray and small font in the lower right hand corner.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 25/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 9/20

A novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. The cover has a brown tree with light green leaves.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 24/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 8/20

A Novel, The Source, by James Michener.

It shows a picture in the bottom third of the top of a gold dome topped building. There is an endorsement from the New York Times, "Fascinating... stunning... [a] wonderful rampage though history."

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 24/11/2024

Self care day a week ago. Holiday Tea at the Willard Hotel in DC. I try to go every year.

Holiday tea setting with a three tier plate stand. There is also a teapot, teacup, plate, silverware, and a tea strainer. Accompaniments are a variety of jams and Devon cream and lemon curd. There is also sugar and milk for the tea. And best of all, there is a glass of champagne.

On the bottom plate, there are a variety of savory dishes, the second level has two kinds of scones, and the top level are different petit desserts.

The china is white rimmed in elegant gold patterns. All of this is set atop a round table with a white jacquard tablecloth. There is also a metal hour glass in the background to time the steeping of the tea without bothering other guests.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 23/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 7/20

The Novel, The Hobbit, by J. R. R Tolkien. The cover has a graphic of what some of the mountains and trees and a river looked like in the book. There is a red sun above the peak of one of the mountains.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 22/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 6/20

The Novel, Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 22/11/2024

#Tucson was amazing for so many reasons. As I was flying in, it looked so barren. It is not. So much beauty and life in the dessert. #photography #cameraphone #iphonecamera

Close up picture of a prickly cactus with yellow prickly pears.

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D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com · 21/11/2024

💙📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 5/20

The Novel, On A Pale Horse, by Piers Anthony. Book One of the Incarnations of Immortality.

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