Steven E. Wedel

  • Christmas is over. Well, mostly. There’s still the spending of some gift certificates and gift cash and putting the decorations away, but the hard part is done. Maybe now I can find the time to get back to work on The Prometheus Syndrome. The Professor has created the zombie raccoon. A few more chapters and…

  • Brett Favre stole my Christmas present

    Will that man ever retire? Good Lord! Today’s match-up was one the Vikes coulda, woulda, shoulda won, but with the game tied, Favre led the Pack close enough for a game-winning field goal. Oh well. The man is good and the game won’t be as exciting when he’s gone. I did get another Christmas present…

  • So this is Christmas

    Here I sit. My 2-year-old son sitting on my right thigh, my 4-year-old daughter on the left. The 12-year-old son standing beside the desk and the 10-year-old girl at a friend’s house. I’m waiting for the phone to ring so I can interview folks for the four freelance stories that are due next week. I’m…

  • I’m surprised they’re this normal

    Popular interests among sewedel’s friends 1. horror (21) 11. horror fiction (8) 2. books (18) 12. fiction (8) 3. writing (17) 13. fantasy (7) 4. movies (12) 14. science fiction (6) 5. music (11) 15. halloween (6) 6. stephen king (11) 16. goth (5) 7. vampires (9) 17. bookstores (5) 8. ghosts (9) 18. cats…

  • The other man

    We’re getting our first snow of the season today. Nothing major — we’re supposed to get about one inch. I know   won’t even count that as real snowfall, but I bet the wind we’re getting is stronger than she’s used to. Yeah, that’s right. The frigid wind is battering Oklahoma just like Kevin Williams…

  • Pagans, piracy … and a contest

    This is just a quicky to revise part of yesterday’s piracy rant. In most of the cases, I sent the pirates an invoice from PayPal demanding they pay a minimum of 1 cent per word for use of the material they stole. For the bastard who stole “Unholy Womb” and didn’t even give me credit,…

  • Internet pirates: Thieves or just ignorant fans?

    I did a Google vanity search on my name today and was surprised to find hundreds of links. As I scrolled through some of the pages, I was even more surprised to see that several of the entries contained the text of some of my short stories — most notably a couple of Halloween stories…

  • University politics suck ass

    My predecessor used to call my employer Oklahoma Crazy University. It’s no freakin’ wonder. I have spent the entire morning digging up paperwork to justify how I handled the dance school’s Christmas show because somebody told the dean I held back on promoting it. Supposedly I was being politically pressured by somebody else on campus.…

  • Strange dreams invade my sleep at night

    Anyone remember the song lyric in the subject line? Anyone interpret dreams? I had an odd one last night, just before the wife woke me up to tell me the 2-year-old boy was crying (why wake me up when she was already awake?). In the dream there was an elderly couple operating some kind of…

  • Another Christmas gift for HWA members

    I’ve hesitated to even mention this after the flap over Murdered by Human Wolves and the Scrybe Press offer. But, since Deron has made the offer, I think it’s only right I pass it along in at least this forum. Deron is the publisher at Double Dragon Publishing. Back in August his company released my…