Slate Sterling — Action & Sci-Fi Author

Thanks for stopping by. I’m Slate Sterling, a lifelong time-travel aficionado who has enjoyed almost every story that bends the clock. Now, years later, I finally sat down to write my own adventures, and that decision brought me here.

The name is a pen name, but the rest is real. I live in the Appalachian Mountains, work as a software engineer, and I’m a military veteran. Over the years I’ve published a handful of action and sci-fi short stories on various websites, each one a test flight.

My debut novel to be is currently entitled Timebreaker. The manuscript sits at about ninety thousand words and needs only a light final polish and a cover before launch later this year. It will open a planned trilogy, and rough drafts for Books Two and Three are already tucked away waiting for their own rewrites. For me, this isn’t a way to make money, or a way to establish… self-pride. I simply love writing. I love the characters. The way they talk, the way they feel.

I want the reader to feel every heartbeat of the characters, to hear dialogue that sounds like real people talking, and to flip pages because you must know what comes next. Mysteries unraveling as time goes by, step by step. The trilogy digs into gray morality. I love ordinary folks, folks pressed against powerful, shady forces, and the ripple effect of every choice they make. This will not be the type of book where a character kills someone, even in self defense, and then feels perfectly normal the next chapter. Two first-person narrators share the pages, giving you an inside seat to each state of mind.

Social media links and a newsletter are in the works. I’ll share an excerpt and more updates the moment everything is wired together. In the meantime, thanks again for dropping in. I’m excited to have you along for the journey.