Steven E. Wedel

The ice storm abated. My kids went back to school on Wednesday, and I went back on Thursday. Yes, that means I had one blessed day home all alone. Ahhhh… I think about half my students decided to skip the couple of days we were back in school. The semester was extended a week —…

No school today. The ice came yesterday. It came hard, and got harder over night. It’s kind of weird to listen to thunder, see lightning and be pelted by sleet. Tree limbs are cracking like gunshots all over the neighborhood before crashing to the ground. We’re lucky here. We still have power, meaning the ice…

I try to do a little contest every year around Christmas time. I call it the Gift of Lycanthropy contest because that’s when Ulrik offered that particular Gift to Shara. Right now, my novella Murdered by Human Wolves is out of print as Scrybe Press works on a new trade paperback version. The only copy…

29,625 / 25,000(118.5%) Yup, it’s done. Finally. After months of on-again-off-again work, this novella is now complete. I can’t believe how long it’s taken me to write these meager 124 pages. I mean, come on. I was working on this at the AP workshop in June. I worked on it at Horrorfind in August. And…

I was soooo close. Western Heights schools were closed on Friday. My kids’ schools were not. Kim had to work. It was my day to have the house to myself. So naturally a transformer on the pole in the backyard blew out. OG&E fixed that amazingly fast, so power was restored. Then I got a…

Is there anything in the world worse than the experience of buying, and financing, a new vehicle? There may well be, but at the moment I can’t think of anything that even comes close. After nine years of service, my mighty Kia Sephia was about to give up the ghost. Brake fluid was disappearing, I…

Not much to say, really. The Halloween reading at Galileo’s went pretty well, I think. I read first, then Craig, and Bev closed the show. I wasn’t really sure what to read, but the reviewer for FearZone.net had commented on how much he liked my story “Nocturnal Caress,” so I decided to go with that.…

Interesting results to the poll I posted last time. Styx got the most votes, with KISS coming in second, tied with write-in band Aerosmith. Most surprising, nobody wrote in a band I really hate. I guess ya’ll have good taste. I’ll be doing a reading at Galileo’s Bar and Grill this Wednesday, Halloween, with Craig…

Musically, I have waxed nostalgic over the past couple of days and, thanks to YouTube, I’ve been watching videos of some of the bands I listened to non-stop back in the 1970s and ’80s. Let’s do a poll, shall we? I’ve limited this to American bands, which rules out Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath,…