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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
In an effort to get my "grade level" seniors to actually read a book, I’m breaking the classes into four groups of four to five kids and assigning each group a different novel. The novels are The Hobbit, Nineteen Eighty-four, and despite being an American author, My Sister’s Keeper. The fourth book was going to…
What is the worst thing you can make a 9th grader read? I would argue that it is William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This isn’t a knock on the Bard, or his play that has remained popular for hundreds of years. It’s just that the ending isn’t what teenagers want, and maybe it isn’t what…
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full…
Christmas break. Why does it have to end? Well, every year since I went to work as a teacher, the school has closed for multiple days during January because of the weather. There’s nothing bad in the forecast yet, but I have hope I’ll get another break soon. haha So, I got a call from…
Here we are on the butt end of 2010. What a strange year it’s been! After 25 years of writing I finally got a big ol’ check for a book, and yet didn’t have a book published for the first time in several years. Also for the first time, I’ve questioned my decision to become…
Here we are on the butt end of 2010. What a strange year it’s been! After 25 years of writing I finally got a big ol’ check for a book, and yet didn’t have a book published for the first time in several years. Also for the first time, I’ve questioned my decision to become…
It kind of feels like I’m back from the dead. A long time passed without any writing on my end. Not just here, but any at all. All things considered, that’s pretty ironic. Over 25 years of trying to “make it” as a writer, and the month I finally get my first really significant paycheck…
It kind of feels like I’m back from the dead. A long time passed without any writing on my end. Not just here, but any at all. All things considered, that’s pretty ironic. Over 25 years of trying to "make it" as a writer, and the month I finally get my first really significant paycheck…
Fine Tooth Press, publisher of my short story collection Darkscapes, has long been incommunicato. I have no idea what’s going on there. So, I have considered my contract with the company terminated. To mark that, and to celebrate Halloween, I have pulled my three Halloween-themed stories from the book, added in one that was anthologized…
Fine Tooth Press, publisher of my short story collection Darkscapes, has long been incommunicato. I have no idea what’s going on there. So, I have considered my contract with the company terminated. To mark that, and to celebrate Halloween, I have pulled my three Halloween-themed stories from the book, added in one that was anthologized…
Steven E. Wedel 