Bookplates
The Road to the Dark Tower will be published in The Netherlands on April 16th by Luitingh Sijthoff as Het Pad Naar De Donkere Toren. DT7 will be released on the same day. The Dutch Stephen King fan site is offering signed bookplates of “Het Pad” to people who buy my book through their [...]
Why endings are sometimes not as well written as beginnings
This may be pure and utter B.S., so feel free to disregard.
While I was in the shower this morning, where I do some of my best thinking, I developed a theory that the reason why story endings are sometimes a disappointment to readers is that they may not be as well edited as the beginnings [...]
One click
Technology has enabled us to make bigger and better mistakes more quickly.
I use one of those little USB memory sticks for backups of works in progress. They’re great–no moving parts, so they’re less likely to corrupt on you like a floppy disk, portable, sturdy, with more storage space than the hard drive of my first [...]
What it takes to make me happy
Over the last two months, I haven’t written much new. As far as fiction goes, practically zilch. I’ve been editing like a sonuvabitch (see below), and there has been some new content involved with those revisions, but it’s not the kind of writing that I consider “new material.” I’ve written some book reviews and a [...]
813.54 VIN
What’s this? The guy goes days–weeks even–without posting to his LJ and now two posts in a few hours?
Well, I’ll admit, the first post was made out of guilt. I didn’t really know what I was going to write about when I started, but I felt like I’d been delinquent so I came up with [...]
Punting
An interesting word, that. To people wrapped up in the NFL post-season it means one thing. To those bearing a long pole loitering near an inviting river, it means something completely different.
I rarely pay much attention to football. There’s usually a game on at the YMCA when I go on Sunday afternoons, most frequently the [...]
Lightening the load
A couple of years ago, I would probably have sworn to you that I’d never do this.
It’s funny how our thinking on things can change. I started staring at one of the bookshelves in our living room a month or two ago, a shelf that contains some of our more special volumes, and realized that [...]
Coming back to life
Time to wake up and get back to business. What with three trips to Canada in the six weeks, I didn’t get much done with my writing. I carried the manuscript of Missing Persons with me each time I traveled, but only on one trip did I do anything with it, getting about 1/3 of [...]
I’m usually a fairly private person
Though I enjoy talking about the things that happen in my writing life, I rarely go into details of my private life on this journal or on my message board or anywhere else online. I might mention something in passing, but most of it I figure is of little interest to the world at large, [...]
About
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.
