Steven E. Wedel

Hey, I just saw where Poppy Z. Brite () called me a bigot today. You see, there was a message board post about gay rights and I chimed in and talked about how I’ve been told to get a haircut or not come back to work at some past jobs. My post was mostly a…

Character matters. Yes, we heard that a lot during the Bill Clinton presidency. I preached on it at the OWFI conference this past weekend. Today on the Shocklines message board, though, somebody posted a thread about last year’s remake of Dawn of the Dead and several people jumped on board to talk about how much…

Business before pleasure, right? Call to the Hunt is officially listed on Amazon.com. Though, technically, buying it from Amazon.com right now is still getting it from the publisher through Amazon Marketplace. But hey, the listing is here. It’ll be available actually through Amazon pretty soon. Oh, be sure to look at the customer picture of…

Wow. What an incredible weekend it’s been. The conference is over and I’m exhausted. Don’t know if I’ll have any time tomorrow to update, so I wanted to jot a few notes now. When you’re a speaker at the OWFI conference, you’re treated like royalty. It was fantastic. I’m still surprised people turned out for…

I knew it was going to be a bad day when my wife woke me at just after 3 a.m. insisting that somebody had just rung the doorbell. There wasn’t anybody there. She said the dog had barked, too. That’s when I knew she was dreaming. We have a cocker spaniel dog who barks and…

In one hour and nine minutes I will be 39 years old. How does such a thing happen? I’m a year away from 40 and a long way from liking it. I remember when Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock” was about some guy getting old. Now that guy is me. Birthdays are always depressing. It…

I am in no way sure I can do this, but I keep seeing other people doing it, so I’m gonna try to … Add an image to my blog.

Just as I arrived home yesterday the big brown truck pulled up and out popped a driver with a big box for me. Inside were 25 copies of Call to the Hunt. Yeah! The book looks really good. It’s a slim green trade paperback, 98 pages, with Kirk’s fabulous art on the cover and Kelley…

Last night I was reading away at the freshly printed manuscript of Shara, preparing it to send to Scrybe Press. I kept running into these little mistakes and wondering why they were still there. And then I came to the rape chapter, where Shara trashes Mark’s Trans Am after she leaves him at the motel,…

Work has become ridiculous. We still don’t know what the reorganization will look like. And so everything’s become political. There’s a certain person on campus who is trying to make me look bad and, unfortunately, I’m having to deal with her a lot right now. So every freakin’ e-mail has become a cloaked political ploy…