Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Steven E. Wedel
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Halloween Giveaway
Today through Halloween you can get the Kindle edition of my short story collection Unholy Womb and my novella Murdered by Human Wolves absolutely free at Amazon. I would appreciate an honest review, but even that isn’t necessary. Unholy Womb has one review that is very negative. Considering how the lead story has been copied in multiple places…
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Review: The Kindness of Strangers
The Kindness of Strangers by Mike McIntyre My rating: 3 of 5 stars Something about the travel narrative just appeals to our sense of adventure. Add in a quest for self-discovery and most of us will be hooked. Mike McIntyre’s story about traveling from San Francisco to Cape Fear, NC, is a perfect recipe for…
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Review: Harpist in the Wind
Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip My rating: 4 of 5 stars A satisfying conclusion to The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy. I’d forgotten so much of the events and details of this story over the decades since I last read it. Re-reading the series yet again was a nice trip down memory lane,…
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Review: Incidents Among the Savages
Incidents Among the Savages by David R. Lewis My rating: 3 of 5 stars Incidents Among the Savages is a book I maybe shouldn’t have liked as much as I did. It isn’t very original in plot. The main character, who comes to be called Walks in Snow, is too much of a superman to…
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Final Small Press Ties Severed
The last of my books published by small presses are coming home like pigeons at dusk. The only ones that were still out of my control were Darkscapes, with Fine Tooth Press, and Amara’s Prayer and Little Graveyard on the Prairie with Bad Moon Books. All three books are back in my control now. I appreciate the support shown…
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Review: Streets of Laredo
Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry My rating: 2 of 5 stars I couldn’t wait for this book to end. It shouldn’t have been this way, but there it was. McMurtry was more frustrating than ever with his head-hopping and back stories about minor characters who just didn’t warrant all that info dumped on the…
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Guest Post on the Teacher Shortage from a POed Parent
Originally posted on okeducationtruths: I received the following this week from UCO professor and #oklaed advocate, Dr. Dan Vincent. I present it to you, unedited. I’m a public school parent and I’m pissed off. I keep hearing that our state has a teacher shortage but I don’t see it this way anymore. I see an…
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Review: Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry My rating: 4 of 5 stars My original review is posted on the paperback, I guess. So, what the heck, I’ll write another one. I didn’t plan to re-read Lonesome Dove as I explored the rest of the adventures of Gus and Call. After reading Dead Man’s Walk and Comanche…
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Review: Go Set a Watchman
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee My rating: 2 of 5 stars With Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee not only tarnishes her legacy, she commits the worst sin an author can commit. No, I’m not talking about making Atticus Finch a racist. Nor am I talking about making lovable little Scout a raving,…
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Review: Comanche Moon
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry My rating: 4 of 5 stars Larry McMurtry is probably the most frustrating writer I keep coming back to. It irritates me that he slips from head to head to head in the narrative flow. It vexes me that we have to read about the same thing from multiple perspectives…
Steven E. Wedel 