Steve Weddle

For the entire month of March, you can get the Kindle version of my sexy thriller Hurt for Me for only $2.49! Go grab this deal while you can!

OPEN FOR SUBS MARCH 1-4: We want flash stories (<2K) about the real gamblers, the people who put it all on the line, and lost (or won) big, and the effects on those around them. Make it dirty. Make it seedy. Remind everyone what it can mean to lose it all. More info: bit.ly/4fQLeGx

Absolutely 100% yes

Books Read 2026 Jan The Faces (1968) by Tove Ditlevsen Murphy (1939) by Samuel Beckett Panama (1978) by Thomas McGuane A Woman's Guide to True Crime (2026) by Mary Thorson The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) by Michael Ondaatje Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (1833) by Alexander Pushkin Feb Zero K (2016) novel by Don DeLillo City of Glass (1985) Paul Auster Joe Country (2019) Mick Herron The Return (1995) by Håkan Nesser Woman at Point Zero (1977) Nawal El Saadawi I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2016) by Iain Reid We Do Not Part (2021) Han Kang

HUGE praise for @marythor.bsky.social's debut collection of short stories

My exemption in the War on Cars

I got insanely lucky with the literary powerhouses who read and blurbed my books. Case in point, the reigning King of Crime @blacktopkid.bsky.social

7 years ago I just put out the Taco Bell Quarterly in a word document! I made it for free and put it out and no one gave me any push or permission, and if I failed, OH WELL, it's not like it was even real!

If you're looking for funny and intense writing check out @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social and his Shamus Award winning Henry Malone series

enjoy

Back from the dead!!

The biggest publishing misconception I have to clear up about a press our size is that we don't pay royalties on net price. I get why really small presses have to but charging the writer for printing feels so weird to me.

Nova Scotia budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector Program’s end is a major blow to independent publishers trying to carry the torch of Canadian storytelling

'It’s a huge loss to future generations of Nova Scotians who won’t hear their stories'
N.S. budget cuts publishing grant in blow to sector
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
#DefendNSBooks @theglobeandmail.com @writersfedofns.bsky.social @afterwordsliterary.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social

a cat is crawling up a set of wooden stairs and the caption says so tired ALT: a cat is crawling up a set of wooden stairs and the caption says so tired

PLEASE AND THANK YOU:
man city, april 18:

Can't wait for this -- or for anything by @alexsegura.com

I KNEW IT

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

The Hospitaller Moment by Brian Howell The Hospitallers had not exactly been rivals of the Templars, but, Gerard had read somewhere, they could have given them a run for their money. He was thinking about this as he leaned ...

"Then there is a sharp pain, a coldness, and the floor is where it shouldn’t be." 🏥

"The Hospitaller Moment" is a stunning new short story in House Magazine exploring the disorientating seconds when life shifts from the ordinary to the emergency.

Read: www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

"Diane, 11:30 A.M., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks..."

Read Short Stories Short Story Reviews

short story review of "Cabin 28" by @marythor.bsky.social published in BULL. A dark, eerie story set, appropriately, at a cabin in the woods.

check out the review here: read-short-stories.com
(also, check out some of the other reviews from earlier this month)... #readshortstories

MLB radio subscription going from $3.99 to $5.99 and if I could bet on baseball, I’d put $100 on it still cutting off the broadcasts horrifically to play the same five ads over and over again.

Firefox 148.0 arrives with AI controls As Mozilla promised they would, Firefox version 148.0 has been released and with it you now get to control what generative AI features are enabled or disabled.

Heads up that Firefox will be updating with AI nonsense set to 'on' by default.

www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fire...

Oh, thats easy
@nikkidolson.bsky.social
@pauljgarth.bsky.social
@robdsmith.bsky.social
@marythor.bsky.social
@libbycudmore.bsky.social
@jamesdfhannah.bsky.social
@bamawriter.bsky.social
@hexican.bsky.social
@curtisippolito.bsky.social

Can I say myself?

Man City 115 charges update as 'club faces 60-point deduction' if found guilty Manchester City and the Premier League have been waiting 14 months for the verdict in the case revolving around the club's alleged 115 breaches for financial rules

The only fair way to handle this is to deduct them 15 points per year for each of the next four years.

www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

Almost St Totteringham's Day?!

Is there a fire drill?

Is there a fire drill?

Is there a fire drill?

Working on my Mansfield Park edition and this made me mmmmhmmm in agreement: “he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her tranquillity…”

We have all met that man.