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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Here’s a PDF of the first two chapters of my new young adult horror novel Love Curse, coming June 7 from MoonHowler Press. It’s available for pre-order from Amazon (link in the PDF). Love Curse MHP 1-2 From the back cover … Keith’s mother is dead, but that doesn’t mean she’s stopped trying to help…
Deer Run Trail by David R. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Deer Run Trail is a fine little Western story with an excellent mix of action, romance, humor, and historical detail. It doesn’t have the epic scope of something like Lonesome Dove, and doesn’t really qualify as a book of high literary merit,…
Lord of the Flies by William Golding My rating: 5 of 5 stars It had been such a long, long time since I last read this book. The mid-1980s, I believe. I’d been wanting to re-read it for the third or fourth time for quite a while, and then one of my AP Lit students…
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m giving this one the benefit of the doubt. I think it’ll grow into the 3-star review as I mull it over. For the moment, it’s more like a 2 because the ending really does blow. This is a coming-of-age story…
Sometime back Facebook’s Timehop feature showed me I’d posted about how many words I’d written that day on a young adult novel called Afterlife. The original post was four years old. I reposted it with a caption about how the book still wasn’t sold. Harvey Stanbrough, the man who once accepted my novella Inheritance for…
I’ve joked for a while about “turning fiddy” and then today it really happened. My odometer of life rolled over the half-century mark. A feeling of depression started to settle over me yesterday, and I really didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. But I did. And I went to school. And magic…
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart My rating: 2 of 5 stars I read a lot of hype about this book before committing to it and so I had pretty high expectations. And for a while I thought it might live up to it. But in the end, no, it didn’t. The story begins with…
When I was a high school student in the early 1980s I couldn’t have imagined having police officers or Department of Human Services social workers in the building. Now that I teach high school, I can’t imagine doing without them. But it’s happening. I’ve already discussed here how we’re down to one officer for our…
Steven E. Wedel 