Steven E. Wedel

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

  • March Report Card

    March is over. It was a long, strange month, with some ups and down in terms of my writing goals. I never actually set out my goals for the month, so I’m going to detail some things that happened, then give an update on the missed goals from last month. Most importantly, my new novel…

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  • Yes or No Launch

    It’s 3:09 a.m. on Sunday, the last day of spring break. The last night I can stay up late like this. I dread going back to the school, back to the students who don’t want to learn, and back to a life where I can’t work on books all day. But it is what it…

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  • Yes or No

    Today is my new book’s birthday! My latest novel, Yes or No, is one I’m kinda proud of. It’s a literary novel about a man in his 50s who is confined to a nursing home and suffering from COPD. Daniel’s led a hard life that’s included prisons and rehabs and loss. One day a woman…

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  • February Report Card

    I set pretty lofty goals for February, and I failed miserably. There were a couple of weeks with a nasty cold and all I wanted to do was sleep. Most recently, the depression crept back in, and I’m trying to get receipts collected for 2022 taxes. I’m not a good recordkeeper and I hate tax…

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  • Forever Young Promo

    My post-apocalyptic young adult novel Afterlife is part of a cool new promo at BookFunnel. This is the story of Cody Treat, an Oklahoma teenager who is able to see the millions of ghosts trapped in this plane after an apocalyptic meteor event. He has to join forces with others to attempt to open a…

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  • Second Chance Romance

    One of the cool things about joining BookFunnel is the opportunity to participate in big promotional events with other others in the same genre. With the release of Dust in the Wind earlier this month, I got to sign this contemporary romance up for the Second Chance Romance promo. You should check it out! Remember,…

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  • February Goals

    January was a month of writing. First Born, begun on November 1, had to be finished, and then Dust in the Wind had to be written (I’d only written the first chapter beforehand). February will be a month of editing. One thing I forgot to mention in my last post was the OWFI contest. A…

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  • January Report Card

    The first month in the year I hope to go full-time as an author has passed. It was not the launch I was hoping for. Despite my preparation, things just didn’t pop the way I’d hoped. You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago I posted a list of things I wanted to accomplish in January.…

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  • January Goals

    I’m writing this on January 18, so it might be cheating. Mostly it’s procrastinating. One thing I’ve learned on this quest to become a full-time author is that the non-writing stuff is tedious and takes a ton of time. Nonetheless, here are the goals for this month. That seems like a lot, I guess, particularly…

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  • 2022 Books in Review

    I set my 2022 reading goal to the usual 50 books, but fell well short. I might have forgotten to record some, but if so, not many. The total books read on record is only 25. The end of the year was dominated by books about marketing novels. This is where I think I lost…

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