Read banned books
If you have read the whole book, bold it. If you have read part of the book, italicize it. If you own it but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, ** it.
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
**#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes** (Just bought the new translation, and I’m itching to [...]
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe…Stephen King calling
As you may know, I co-wrote an adaptation of the Stephen King story Lunch at the Gotham Cafe for some colleagues out in L.A. who acquired the rights as part of King’s Dollar Baby program. The resulting films can only be screened at film festivals. Stephen King’s Gotham Cafe, as King allowed the producers to [...]
10 Things I’ve Done You Might Not Have
This sounds like fun. Let’s see if I can come up with ten
Been bitten by a stingray (not stung, mind you, bitten)
Pet a shark
Saw copies of a book I wrote in an airport bookstore
Went grocery shopping with Doug Clegg and Matt Schwartz
Had a book translated into Russian
Conducted a newspaper [...]
Dogville
I’d heard Steve Earle’s track on the Warren Zevon tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich, so I decided to give his new album, The Revolution Starts Here a whirl. An intriguing CD, to say the least. I like the title track and several others, find the spoken word piece almost unbearable, cringe slightly at the twangy [...]
eBay goodies
I have a couple of auctions running at present, one that ends on Friday and one I just started a few minutes ago. You can check ‘em out here. The first is the signed/limited of Cujo from mysterious press and the other is the German limited edition of It, which is also the first world [...]
The 6k weekend
I’ve been working on this new story since last Wednesday, and I finished the first draft early yesterday afternoon. It ended up a lot longer than I originally envisioned. Final word count as of yesterday, pre-editing, is about 9600. I say “pre-editing” but I did edit some of the early sections of it on subsequent [...]
Looking Glass
This is exciting news. Last year, a baker’s dozen writers produced a round-robin novella that was published in installments in the Cemetery Dance weekly newsletter. Ray Garton started the tale and passed it off to Tom Piccirilli, who passed it off…and so on, until Bob Morrish had the unenviable task of trying to wrap this [...]
That Feeling
When I got home from work yesterday, I found two huge boxes awaiting me from Cemetery Dance. Within were my author copies of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book, both the trade paperback (lovely) and the hardcover (gorgeous). Just when I thought the hardcover was great, I took off the dust jacket and saw the [...]
In a Flash
I finished final revisions for the story that I’m submitting to the World Horror Convention contest last night. I thought I was done already except for one last read-through, but I ended up cutting another 150 words from it. I can get very brutal with my fiction in the final stages, slashing and chopping unnecessary [...]
Wasn’t That A Party?
I finished up my proofing of the Cemetery Dance limited of The Road to the Dark Tower on Saturday, glory hallelujah. That meant I was able to treat myself to a guilt-free Super Bowl yesterday afternoon, though I did have a short story manuscript on my lap, proofing during the game. This is a story [...]
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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.
