Steven E. Wedel

Coincidence or fate? The same day I receive the revised contract for Fine Tooth Press to reprint Darkscapes Gayleen from my writing group tells me she saw a couple of copies of the PublishAmerica version marked way down at the Borders store in OKC. So today I took the youngest kids up to Borders and…

My werewolf novel Shara will officially go out of print by 3F Publications on March 31, 2005. I would have asked that it be taken out sooner, but I may still buy a few more copies to have for the conventions I’m attending this year. As noted here earlier, the book will reappear at an as-yet…

My desk is in front of a big window in what used to be the living room of our house. A big yellow full moon is looking in at me right now. About 45 minutes ago it was still low on the horizon and glowing orange as a Halloween jack-o-lantern. I got a rejection letter…

This’ll be really short ’cause I’m busy. The publisher I wrote about yesterday came through and negotiated or clarified all the issues I had with the contract, so Darkscapes is a go. It’ll be out within 12 months from Fine Tooth Press, a Connecticut-based micropress with just a few titles out so far. Here’s the…

Yes, if everybody else jumped off a cliff, I’d probably do it, too. By the time it was my turn the ground should be covered in soft, mushy bodies to break my fall. 10 Things I’ve Done That You Probably Haven’t 1. Drove a 1987 Buick Skylark to the top of Lookout Mountain in SE…

In short, the answer is not to accept every deal that comes down the pike. For the moment I’m simply going to paste in here a copy of the e-mail I just sent to a fairly new micropress that offered a contract to reprint my short story collection Darkscapes. I’ve taken out the publisher name, but if…

I just updated the front page of my Web site to feature ‘s cover for Call to the Hunt. There’s also a link to see the other covers he’s done for the Scrybe Press release of two more of my books. Click here.

Ugh. I am so freaking tired. Yesterday was a pretty good day. After I sent off the Horror World newsletter I sat down with The Prometheus Syndrome and revised/rewrote about 50 pages. Some of it was in pretty bad shape. I really sucked at some things back then, such as — Josh began walking toward the…