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News & Interviews

INTERVIEWS


*Edweek Feature + podcast interview (WDIW)

*Appearance on Canada’s The Morning Show (WDIW)

*C-SPAN/BOOKTV Book Release Event (WDIW)

*IHeartRadio interview (WDIW)

*Mike Schlickman Show interview (WDIW)

*SciFiTalk interview about Mysterious Monsters

*Reno News & Review profile

* KNPB’s “A Conversation with David Michael Slater”

* LIServe Podcast interview

* BookBites Podcast Interview

* Coffee With an Author Interview (1 hr!)

*Podcast interview about We’re Doing It Wrong (see #2)

*Personal Playlist Blog Interview

NEWS


  • ANIMAL CAMPUS, DMS’ sequel to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, will be published by Library Tales/ Simon & Schuster in fall 2026.
  • The 10th Anniversary Revised Edition of Fun & Games will be published by Library Tales/Simon & Schuster in Jan 2026.
  • UGLY, DMS’ tragicomedy about man’s inhumanity to woman will be published by Library Tales/ Simon & Schuster in Oct 2025. It will be released on audio by Recorded Books.
  • THE VANISHING has been optioned for film by Chris Columbus’ 26th St. Pictures. It will be re-released in conjunction with Simon & Schuster in June 2025.
  • DMS has formed a partnership with Frogbot Films, run by the supercouple Monica Lago-Kaytis (Producer, Wreck-it Ralph and Zootopia) and Clay Kaytis (Director, The Angry Birds Movie) to produce Mysterious Monsters as an animated series.
  • Dms’s article for AP on growing up across the street from the Tree of Life synagogue.

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