Steven E. Wedel

How do you know when you’re old? When you take a break between con events and fall asleep on your hotel bed, fully clothed right down to your shoes, at 7 p.m. To be fair, I only got about one hour’s sleep Friday night, so I was really, really tired Saturday night. With a couple…

Just got the call that my friend and former boss died this evening. He was able to leave the hospital and pass away in his house. Rest in peace, Robert. So much potential there. All gone.

Apparently I’ve done some kind of wicked shit and I’m being punished for it. Today was a gift from Hell. I will go insane soon if I don’t get a job and get out of this house. I love my kids, but need some space. Yesterday I received an Mp3 player I won on eBay.…

Huh? I checked in with the book review editor at The Oklahoman the other day to make sure he’d received the review copy of Call to the Hunt that Scrybe Press sent a while back. Today the editor responded and said yes, he received it, but they wouldn’t be reviewing it. Seems the reviewer who…

No writing today. After the MbHW script marathon, I wanted a day off. I mowed the lawn this afternoon, which was a bad thing to do. It was way too hot to be out there doing that. But then it rained this evening, so I’m glad I got it done. Halloween is on Sci-Fi right…

Okay, yesterday somebody on my Friends list mentioned buying Wednesday 13’s latest CD, Transylvania 90210. I’d never heard of them, but was interested, so I poked around on the Web until I found a video for the song “I Walked with a Zombie.” I loved it and went out and bought the CD today and…

I’m really looking forward to this weekend’s Conestoga convention in Tulsa. Some guy named George R.R. Martin is the guest of honor. Nah, never heard of him. I just realized I have the wrong URL on the Conestoga link on the Appearances page on my Web site. it’s .org, not .com. I need to fix…

The first draft of my first screenplay is finished. Yup. I finished adapting Murdered by Human Wolves earlier this evening. It came in at just over 92 minutes and includes a few new scenes that really should have been in the book. Now to give it a reading, then send it off to the pro…

At this very moment, Call to the Hunt is at No. 48 on Amazon.com‘s best-seller list for Dark Fantasy. Yeah, it’s a specialized list, but it’s still a good feeling, and the best piece of news I’ve had in quite a while. The sales rank at Amazon is currently the highest I’ve ever had, too.…

For a couple of weeks I’ve been anticipating a telephone interview that was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. today. The interview was with Axia College, part of the University of Phoenix. So, 10:30 came, and nobody called. The minutes crawled by. I checked my e-mail and, yes, the contact said she’d call me. After an hour…