Steven E. Wedel

Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.

Steven E. Wedel

  • Review: Riddle-Master of Hed

    A long-time favorite, it had been at least 20 years since I’d traveled with Morgan from the farming island of Hed to see the High One in Erlenstar Mountain. This was one of those transformative books for me, a fantasy that made me think, made me want to look beyond the boundaries of what we…

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  • Writer’s Cocktail

    Tell a little truth with many lies It’s the only way I’ve found — Dio, “Straight Through the Heart” No matter how far out in space your story is set, or how alien your fantasy world, your reader needs a touchstone of reality to identify with. The question, though, especially for those not creating completely…

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  • Divide, Divide, Divide

    WARNING! This blog post is mostly a political rant and will likely offend those who lean to the left and take themselves very seriously. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED! Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like lately my Facebook feed has been overwhelmed with petty political rants and memes pushing some agenda. Two of the recent…

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  • Scrivener Again

    The last time I wrote about this word processing program made especially for authors I’d imported an MS Word file for a book I was working on. I had an overall favorable opinion, but the newness of the program and the fact I’d begun in Word caused me to go back to the original program…

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  • The Books of 2014

    My goal for 2014 was to read 30 books. I did that, plus three. Of those, I only gave a 1-star review to one title, with everything else getting at least three stars. That’s a pretty good year of reading. I thought I’d recap the highlights here, as I tend to do at the start…

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  • Review: Tell the Wolves I’m Home

    Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt My rating: 1 of 5 stars I seldom give up on a book, but about half of this one was all I could take. Within the first couple of chapters I was wondering why I’d thought it would interest me at all. Did I click the…

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  • 2014 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…

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  • Review: Face the Music: A Life Exposed

    Face the Music: A Life Exposed by Paul Stanley My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Starchild of KISS finally tells his side of the story in what is really the most readable of the four (co-authored) autobiographies by the band’s original members. While I’ve enjoyed all four books, Paul’s is the one where I…

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  • Review: Stoner

    Stoner by John Edward Williams My rating: 5 of 5 stars Having just now finished John Edward Williams’ Stoner, I’m almost at a loss as to what to say about it. The novel may be the most pleasant kick in the teeth you’re ever likely to get. William Stoner may be the saddest character in…

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  • Review: Cloud Atlas

    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Brace yourselves. This could be the sappiest book review I’ve ever written. It was hard to choose categories for this novel. Adventure? Mystery? Science fiction? Historical drama? It’s a little of everything. The novel is divided into sections that barely connect, but each one…

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