Catching up
I have a lot of publication news recently, so I thought I should post a quick update here of current and upcoming projects.
Music Hath Charms appears online at Amatory Ink
Special Delivery appears in the current issue of Cemetery Dance magazine (#51) along with my usual column and a featured review of Peter Straub’s In the [...]
World Horror
The 99-44/100% final schedule for World Horror has been released. I will be appearing on two panels:
On Thursday (April 7) at 2 pm, I will be moderating a panel titled The Best Works You’ve Never Read. Sharing the stage with me will be Jack Ketchum, Tom Monteleone, Mark Morris, Bill Breedlove and David Bell.
On Friday [...]
Hidden treasures, blasts from the past
I have posted here for a while. I was out of the country for the last week and only spot-checked e-mail during my absence. Sometimes it’s good to get away from the Internet for a while. But the e-mail sure does pile up in the interim.
For the first several days of my trip, I was [...]
Red Scream
I did a lot of yard work this weekend. The weather was so nice that is was hard to find excuses not to mow the lawn, trim the bushes, bundle up the debris. I think I even caught a few rays in the process, though for me that’s not hard to do. I get a [...]
Accent on book reviews
For the past five years, I’ve been writing book reviews for the local newspaper, at a rate of about two per month. I got a ton of free books from the gig and I find that writing brief (550 word) articles is good training for editing. If I wanted to add a sentence to a [...]
Numb3rs
My editor from New American Library was one of the special guests at the local Writers Guild conference this past weekend. It was great finally getting a chance to meet her. I’d spoken with her on the phone before, and e-mailed of course, but I had no idea what she looked like at all.
Someone asked [...]
Legends for sale
Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg, #86/200
This is a rare one! Signed by all eleven contributors.
Introduction by Robert Silverberg
The Little Sisters of Eluria [Dark Tower] by Stephen King
The Sea and Little Fishes [Discworld] by Terry Pratchett
Debt of Bones [Sword of Truth] by Terry Goodkind
Grinning Man [Alvin Maker] by Orson Scott Card
The Seventh Shrine [Majipoor] by Robert [...]
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I grabbed this test from Steven Wedel’s LJ: The Commonly Confused Words Test and was happy with my results:
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 77% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most [...]
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.
