Steven E. Wedel's Blog, page 46

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Werewolves in the library

We have new projectors at school that allow us to show movies on a pull-down screen. Yeah, like what we had when I was in elementary school, but I'm not talking about film strips made in the 1950s shown through a big and heavy blue projector. These let us show DVDs. The downside is that our school didn't have the foresight to hook up the DVD player to the projector, so we have to use the computer. You can't do anything else with the computer while the movie's playing. And you have to move the...

Lick It Up!

First, thanks to Gayleen and Paul for meeting me for lunch today. I needed that. Thanks for all your kind words and encouragement. I'm working on a query letter for The Girls Nobody Wanted to Date Gayleen. I swear it.

I finally got out and bought the new KISS album, Sonic Boom, today. I like it a lot ... and I didn't expect to. Even "Modern Day Delilah" has kind of grown on me. I"d have to say "Never Enough" is my favorite song on it so far. It isn't the Destroyer meets Love Gun that Paul Stan...

Another open letter to Bill Myers

Ah, so you came back. And the principal promised to have you arrested if you return. So you left another note with him, including your phone number and the fact you want to buy a book. GO TO A BOOK STORE, DUMBASS.

No SHARA audio

This is one of the more interesting search terms someone has used to find his way to my Web page: download steven wedel shara torrent. Interesting that someone wants an audiobook of Shara ... and noteworthy they are looking to download it for free. After the three rejection letters I've had for the book in the last few weeks as I try to move it to a bigger publisher, I'll even take the attempt at an illegal download as a bit of encouragement.

I suppose I could do an audiobook of Shara. I know ...

Tulsa Sci-Fi Horror Weekend Recap

I spent Friday and Saturday in Tulsa for the first Sci-Fi Horror Weekend. This was a convention in the vein of Horrorfind Weekend or the Texas Frightmare Weekend. It's geared more toward the movies and features the stars of some genre gems. The main guests were the stars of the first (that I know of) and best zombie comedy, Return of the Living Dead. There were also several people there from some of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels.

I imagine the weekend was not as well attended as the orga...

Open Letter to Bill Myers

Dear Mr. Myers,

Thank you for your interest in my novella Murdered by Human Wolves. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you showing up at my place of employment for a second time to demand my attention and a copy of the book. Please forgive our school secretary, but I hope you can understand that part of her job is to keep the students and faculty separated from random people who walk in off the street. Also, please understand that I do not sell my books from my classroom. I attend many con...

Some more school stuff

Percentage wise, we may lose more teachers than students at the end of this school year. I know a whole lotta teachers will be looking for employment elsewhere next summer for various reasons, most of which come right back to the administration building.

I was called on the carpet twice a couple of days ago. The first time because of a bellwork assignment. I'd left the chalkboard where I write the bellwork blank to do my hall monitor duty. When I came back in, a student had written, "If you ha...

Catching up

No updates in two weeks. That's quite a while, even for me. Last week was brutal. I worked four out of five evenings, then spent the fifth getting ready for FenCon. So, what's been going on with me? Hmm.

I've been drowning in paperwork from school. I've switched to a mostly participation-based grading system. I don't like it, but I simply don't have time to grade that many papers. And I'm lucky. My biggest class is 24; some of the English teachers have 36 kids to a class. Add to my three high ...

My acting debut

That's right. I wasn't able to shuffle up to Buffalo for Greg Lamberson's "Slime City Massacre" movie shoot, but today I got to play a zombie in Christophe's new music video. It was hot, it was humid, but it sure was fun. We got kicked out of a cemetery, so we finished the shoot at Little River Park in Moore, a place I think would be nice for a werewolf flick. The video will debut at TrickConTreat. Sadly, I won't be there because I'll be in Tulsa for this. I'm sure it'll be online eventually ...