Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Steven E. Wedel
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Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. That’s the opening sentence from Charles Dickens’ most biographical novel — and my personal favorite novel — David Copperfield. The thing about favorite novels is that you often…
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Want to help found a new literary hub?
I am looking to begin a new adventure as the owner of a bookstore. You may recall a few years ago I published a novel called The Lost Pages Bookstore. I think it’s probably my best story, and part of that is because the desire to run a store in a small town has been…
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Assault on 2026: February Debriefing
If you’ve been following along on the blog, you know I’ve declared 2026 an all-out campaign year. February looked less like a glorious cavalry charge and more like digging trenches and stockpiling ammunition. Books were released. Manuscripts were forged. Ads were tested (and paused). Newsletter lists were built. Strategies were refined. A few coins rattled…
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Jadob Wolf on His Own
Yesterday (Feb. 10) saw the publication of Wallacetown Reckoning, the fourth book in my ongoing Western series The Travels of Jacob Wolf. Readers of the series will remember that in Book 3, Warhorse Trail, Jacob’s bounty hunter mentor Jerome Freeman retired from the trade to settle in Cherokee Territory with his Indian bride and raise…
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Jacob Wolf in a Box
In a couple of hours I’ll have a new bundled edition of the first three novellas in The Travels of Jacob Wolf series live on Amazon. The bundle includes: You can get the ebook bundle for about 50 cents less than if you bought each book separately. These three volumes trace young Jacob’s journey after…
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Some Content is Going Paid
Welcome to 2026! As part of my Project: Assault on 2026, I’ve revived my dormant Patreon account. That is the only place I will be openly discussing my pen names and the books related to them. I’ve set my membership tiers at low prices. You’ll be able to get pretty much everything for $1 a…
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Fighting Seasonal Depression with Hate
I entered the workforce at the age of 16. That was in 1982. I worked for the only McDonald’s Enid, Oklahoma, had at that time. I lasted three weeks, then moved on to another job. That’s 43 years of answering to someone else in order to make the money needed to survive. I’m tired of…
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What if everything is holy, and we simply forgot how to see it?
I’ve been playing around with a couple of artificial intelligence tools lately. I know they’re not popular with writers, but they’re not going away, so I’m going to follow the lead of Joanna Penn and find an ethical way to use them. Mostly I’ve been using them for marketing when it comes to books. I’ve…
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Why I Write Horror — And Why You May Need It
Why I Write Horror—And Why You Might Need It People ask me sometimes—why horror? They ask it like I’ve made a strange, almost impolite choice. Like I could have written something nice. A romance. A cozy mystery. Something where the dog doesn’t die and everyone learns a heartwarming lesson by the end. I’ve written books…
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The Story Behind the Story: What Inspired The Dead of the Day
Sometimes, a story grows out of a nightmare. Other times, it starts with something quiet. This one started on a dairy farm in Ripley, Oklahoma. I loved my grandfathers. Mom’s dad encouraged my love of Westerns, teaching me to make a lasso and giving me a stack of ancient Old West magazines. Dad’s dad ran…
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