Steven E. Wedel's Blog, page 53

We'll never be as young as we are right now

Score! One of my hardest-working students came to me the other day wanting help on a speech she's going to make at this year's senior assembly. I suggested the above quote from the master, Jim Steinman, and she liked it. We worked up a pretty good speech about not accepting mediocrity and taking advantage of the here and now.

Man, it's gonna be hard to see this senior class graduate. I've had some of them in class every year since I started teaching and I'll really miss a bunch of them.

But, life

Little Graveyard shipping Feb. 19

I got an e-mail from Roy at Bad Moon Books today, letting me know that Little Graveyard on the Prairie has shipped from the printer. He'll have copies on Feb. 18 and will be shipping them out to customers the next day.

Have you ordered yours?

It isn't too late to get one of these limited edition hardcover novellas. What, you need some blurbage to help you open the wallet? Okay.

Horror Drive-in says: Little Graveyard on the Prairie takes place in Oklahoma, the state that Steven Wedel calls his home.

Random Randomness

If I insult you, then have to explain the insult to you, does it still count as an insult?

Mark Tyree has written an amazing review of Little Graveyard on the Prairie. However, it isn't public yet, so I can't point you to it. It'll be at Horror World next month, though. He compares my little book to the works of Gary Braunbeck and John Little, though.

Work on all fiction has ground to a halt. Again. Too many student essays to read. Why, why, why can't they understand they have to cite sources, use

Back into the forest

This one is for the writers. Or anyone more organized than me, I guess. I'm in a bit of a quandary. I seem to be having an affair on The Girls Nobody Wanted to Date. I'm 35,000 words into it, which means I'm more than halfway done since it's a young adult novel. But the werewolves have called me back to the forest. All weekend I've been switching between Girls and Nadia's Children, the new Werewolf Saga book. I will literary end a sentence in one manuscript and go to the other one. I have never

Movies

Well, I finally got to see Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. I really liked it. I have some questions about a few things, such as the pendant/key to William's prison being worn by Viktor's daughter but Selene not being anywhere around, when it was her father who made William's prison. Surely there will be another film to bridge the gap between this one and the first one and that kind of stuff will be explained. Right?

Last night I watched Infamous. I've watched Capote several times, but had not wat

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Okay. Not really my style. I've always liked the brunettes. How about this little honey?

Oh yeah. Mama knows how to work that booty! And I'm a sucker for a gal in boots, too. But wait! There's more. What's this one?

What is she? Like 12? Are they serious? Is this a trick to trap pedoph

Rise of the Lycans

The new Underworld movie must be doing pretty well at the box office. I say this because the hits to my Web sites have been up, and the search engines are bringing people looking for ways to become a werewolf. "How can I become a werewolf?" and other such phrases have been the top search engine searches that have led to my sites over the past week or so.

People are strange.

You want to be a werewolf? Get nekkid in the moonlight and slather yourself with an opium-based salve like they did a few hun