Two pages; seven words
There’s an old story, perhaps apocryphal, about James Joyce, wherein a friend asked him how his work was going. Joyce, in obvious distress, confessed to having written seven words that day. The friend responds, “That’s good, at least for you.” Joyce responds, “I suppose it is . . . but I don’t know what order [...]
Best of…
I’ve known this for a couple of weeks, but didn’t want to say anything until the table of contents was officially released. My story “One of Those Weeks” was selected for the new Best of Borderlands 1-5, a trade paperback that will be out in a couple of months.
I don’t know if I can successfully [...]
Now that I have my luggage back…
NECON.
How does I even begin to talk about the blur that has been the last four or five days?
The trip started out with a hellishly early flight, and I was so bleary that I forgot my cell phone in the car at the airport. Not a biggie, but it would have been nice to have [...]
NECON -1
Tomorrow morning I leave for NECON. Those 6:30 am flights always seem like a good idea when I book them, but when the day comes around and I realize I have to get up at 4 am…not so good.
The new issue of Accent Literary Review went live this morning. This month I have an interview [...]
NECON minus 2 and some plants
Way back in May I posted about the packet of seeds that came in Tori Amos’ CD The Beekeeper. I planted them in a clay pot and have diligently kept them watered throughout the driest June in recorded history in Houston and, I must say, they aren’t doing too bad. I have not the foggiest [...]
NECON minus three
It might actually rain again!
On the other hand, the heat index ranged between 105 and 109. Heat Index is sorta the inverse of wind chill — it shows how hot if feels when you take the physical thermometer reading and factor in the humidity. Residents planning outdoor activities should drink plenty of liquids… preferably water… [...]
At least it rained
Yesterday was a bitch of a day, don’t you think? The news that greeted me when I got up to start writing was the passing of one of my favorite authors, Evan Hunter, also known as Ed McBain. Our shelves are full of Precinct novels. I also have all the Matthew Hope books and wished [...]
You don’t only kill your children, you disembowel them…
A saying common among writers is that you sometimes have to kill your children, which means that sometimes on revising a work you have to remove or change things that you really like. Perhaps it’s especially because you really like them that they have to go. Anything that stands up to a writer and says, [...]
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.
