LOST!
No, this isn’t a plea for help, it’s about the new ABC TV show that airs on Wednesday nights.
I don’t watch much television. I know a lot of people say that, but in my case it’s true. We (voluntarily) have no cable, relying instead on a pair of rabbit ears to pick up the signal [...]
Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on
Just when you think it can’t get any more surreal…
I was on the phone a couple of hours ago with the journalist from San Luis Obispo in California when he stops in the middle of a sentence and says that he has to go. He thinks they’re having a bit of an earthquake.
He called back [...]
0 days 0 hours 0 minutes and 0 seconds
For some reason, I expected the counter on my message board to act absurd this morning and show negative time, but the clever little javascript snippet knew better and stopped at all zeroes.
I guess today it’s official — I’m published in book form, even though the book has been out everywhere for over a week. [...]
Zero hour, 9 am
Well, folks, we’re finally here. My official publication date is less than 12 hours away, though the reality is that the book is out everywhere. The local Barnes & Noble has already sold out its first 10 book order and has another batch on the way. But tomorrow is tomorrow and regardless of the actual [...]
Ivan the Terrible
Hurricane Ivan, the storm that caused so much destruction last week, has risen from its ashes and is now a tropical storm off the coast of Galveston and Louisiana. It only has 50 mph winds but it promises to bring a lot of rain this way. In my 15 years living in Texas, I’ve never [...]
Raining? No, it’s pouring!
Actually, it’s a nice sunny day here–though the threat of afternoon rain looms. My subject line refers to the “flood” of responses I’m starting to get to my press release distribution.
It started yesterday with a phone call from the book critic for USA Today. That contact didn’t start with a press release but rather an [...]
Publication day — what’s it mean?
Some books have strict on-sale dates, like The Dark Tower, which comes out tomorrow and only tomorrow. Go to a bookstore today and you’re out of luck, mate. You might be fortunate enough to find an all-night bookstore where you can get your fix at midnight-oh-one, or you could have gotten the book at a [...]
Half way there…and then halfway again
There’s an old math argument that says that if you walk toward something you will never get there, because you’ll first cover half the distance, then half the remaining distance and so on, and so on, to the point where you have this microscopic distance to go but still have to cover half that distance…so [...]
Time keeps on tickin’
Never a dull moment these days, and with each passing day, something new and exciting happens.
About a month ago, I heard that USA Today would be interviewing King for a piece to appear when The Dark Tower comes out, so, in a brazen and bold move, I e-mailed the USA Today book critic and offered [...]
Flogging it
I’ve been very fortunate with my first major publishing experience. My publisher has been behind The Road to the Dark Tower from the very beginning. The book design is wonderful and eyecatching, the cover art is outstanding. Its existence has filtered throughout the Internet and elsewhere over the months, so awareness of its existence is [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
