Oct 6, 2025
Guest Bio
Tony James Slater is an unusual combination of science-fiction author and travel-memoir writer.
He is a very, very strange man. He believes himself to be indestructible, despite considerable evidence to the contrary. He is often to be found making strange faces whilst pretending to be attacked by inanimate objects. But perhaps his biggest problem is this: he has a mouth so big he is at risk of swallowing his own head.
It is for this reason (amongst others) that he chooses to spend his life far from mainstream civilization, tackling ridiculous challenges and subjecting himself to constant danger. He gets hurt quite a lot.
Links
Contact Tony James Slater
Facebook: www.Facebok.com/TonyJamesSlater
Website: www.TonyJamesSlater.com
Things you can enter
TREASURE CHEST GIVEAWAY
From Poppy: 1 e-copy of Woken Kingdom and d1 e-copy of How to edit your own novel.
From Elizabeth: Winners Choice of any 1 thing from her etsy store/a copy of her book.
From Lourna: A winners choice of one of her Anthologies
From RA: The first book in her Amefyre Series
From Tony: 1 Copy of 1st Memoir and 1 copy of Earth Warden sci-fi book
From BCP: 2x A copy of one of the BCP Low/Medium Content Journal range and 1 $25 Voucher
Treasure chest Give-away 3: (open 30/07/2025 closes 8/10/2025)
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Show Notes
- Pacman Reference from Bio
- Originally wanted to be a famous actor. Realised it wasn't his path.
- Worked on self development and travelled before first memoir written.
- People were sick of hearing his story but he still wanted to tell it. That is when he wrote his first Memoir.
- Shared a spoiler about That Bear Ate My Pants
- Has a deep appreciation of animals
- Loves Lego
- Mindfulness keeps him sane in an uncertain creative world.
- 'This too shall pass'
- Works full time as an Author - last 5 years
- To deal with stress uses Mindspace ap and meditation.
- Additional responsibility has change his priorities in life.
- Writing habits - writing comes first.
- If the writing is too much of a challenge after 1000 words will stick to alternate writing tasks
- 3 major, 3 minor, rolling to-do list
- Speaking blew writing out of the water for a short time.
- Speaking was energizing potentially due to acting background
- Has 7 Memoirs and 11 Scifi
- Reads all responses and reviews to his stories. The negative responses are read critically, if there is no value, he doesn't let them bother him.
- Most recent memoir has had some controversial issues that have impacted readership
- Will be interested in writing a self help book in the future, not sure if he should put it out in memoir name or not.
- Lego is favourite this for relaxing at the end of the day, has mindful elements.
- Main goals are success based, wants a stable income from his writing. Streamline methods and write 3 books a year.
- Pitched first book was advised need to be famous so we went out to try
- Met David Gaugran who goncvinced him to self publish
- Has self published all books currently, is considering pitching publishers for next memoir.
Fast Fire Questions
- Would you rather be a table or a chair? Table
- Are you a dog person or cat person? Cat
- Who is your favourite superhero? Spiderman
- If you were to have a magical power what would it be? Fly
- What is the first think you would do with a huge lotto win? Parcel out to people who will need it.
Buffy Night
Star Wars and Firefly
Integral to his development and understanding of Sci-fi as a genre and the juxtaposition of in depth world creations and humour within Firefly resonated with his natural humorous nature.