Oh, Canada
Tomorrow, for those of you whose calendars don’t list non-US holidays, is Canada Day. The terre de mes aïeux (my home and native land) will be 138 years old tomorrow. And, gosh, she doesn’t look a day over 95! Though I’ve been living in the US of A for over fifteen years, I’m still very [...]
HWA Stoker Weekend 2005
This is probably going to end up being one of those long posts that most people skip.
I went to the HWA Stoker Weekend in Burbank this past weekend as both an HWA Trustee pro tem and a nominee. In my role as the former, I was to present the Specialty Press Award. As the latter, [...]
Bridesmaid or bride?
In a few hours, we’ll be jetting off to LA for the HWA weekend and Stoker Awards ceremony. My wife expects that I’ll win the non-fiction Stoker for The Road to the Dark Tower and I’ve had a few other people tell me they think I’ll win, but I can’t allow myself to think along [...]
Dark Delicacies
I just noticed that the lineup for this Saturday’s mass signing at Dark Delicacies is on their events page. This is in conjunction with the Stoker Award weekend. Clive Barker may also be in attendance at various times, perhaps at the signing, and the Horror Channel is going to film. I hope those of you [...]
What the BLEEP was I thinking?
I knew nothing about the movie except that I’d heard the title and that Marlee Matlin was in it. So, when my suggested renting What the Bleep do We Know? last night, I thought — sure, why not?
Ugh. What a piece of New Age horsecrap littered with pseudoscience. If you’re not familiar with the movie, [...]
What I was doing when the lights went out
A couple of years ago, I wrote a story called “What David Was Doing When the Lights Went Out” for the Who Died in Here? anthology. The story was inspired by the massive power outage in the Northeastern US and was one that I was quite pleased with, especially for the way it turned out.
Last [...]
Zonked
I must have been zonked when I posted my last LJ entry. The MWA conference, I realized a few hours later, is this coming weekend, not last weekend. Duh!
I had a writerrific weekend working on things that have been piling up on my desk, trying to free myself up to get back to Missing Persons [...]
Who stopped the rain?
It’s amazing how quickly a nice healthy patch of grass can turn brown.
We had a very wet spring, but it hasn’t rained here in any amount in several weeks, so I’ve had to resort to watering the front lawn to keep it from looking like The Waste Lands. I’m not very diligent about it, but [...]
Terminal
My review of Brian Keene’s Terminal will be posted at Insidious Reflections at the end of the month. I’d been wanting to review this book since Brian handed it to me at World Horror and I carried it with me to breakfast in Manhattan and got egg stains all over it because I didn’t want [...]
Shouldn’t they be home in bed?
The new issue of Accent literary review is online. My contributions this month are reviews of Nick Mason’s Inside Out (a Pink Floyd “biography”), and novels by Stewart O’Nan (The Good Wife) and Lawrence Block (All the Flowers Are Dying).
Also in this issue is a review of The Road to the Dark Tower by Peter [...]
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.
