May Day
Hasn’t been a terribly productive week as far as writing goes. I have a Cemetery Dance column due shortly, and that’s been taking up most of my writing time. Technically, the due date is tomorrow, but I got an extension because I expect to receive some advance materials this weekend that I’d like to write [...]
Four provinces in four days
Back from a four-day trip to eastern Canada. Landed in New Brunswick, drove to Nova Scotia and had pit stops in Montreal and Toronto during the journey. On the return, a family with two very young children with extremely large lungs and a predilection for either crying or shouting sat in front of us on [...]
Doldrums & interviews
I’m going to be away for four days at the end of the week. I won’t have much time to write, so I’ve been avoiding working on my bigger projects, knowing that if I get a full head of steam going now, I’ll end up with literatus interruptus. I’ll take my journal along and might [...]
Rolling with the Punches
My new Storytellers Unplugged essay went online this morning for your reading pleasure.
That was my main writing endeavor for the weekend. I also wrote a couple of book reviews, read the first 80 pages of Doug Clegg’s The Abandoned, watched Battle for the Planet of the Apes and watched a few flame wars. Better than [...]
Wee Small Hours
My short story Therapy is now online at the Hellnotes Wee Small Hours web site. Check it out and feel free to leave comments.
Sleeping in is a rare luxury. If I get to once a week, I consider it a good week. Thanks to the three-day weekend, I actually got to do it twice in [...]
Damned dirty apes
I blame Brian Keene.
He posted on a message board about the Planet of the Apes Ultimate Collection DVD that comes in a collector’s box in the shape of an ape head. Until I saw that post, this boxed (aped?) set hadn’t appeared on my radar. Of course I had to buy it. It arrived last [...]
No laughing matter
I survived.
I had my first root canal procedure this morning, and it wasn’t all that bad. I was reading over the forms that I had to complete over the weekend, and when I came to the entry that asked if I wanted, for $50, to have the laughing gas option, I paused. Might be fun, [...]
April Poems Bring May … ?
encourages us to post a few of our favorite poems to commemorate National Poetry Month. Here’s a favorite of mine. 100 Brownie Points to the first person who identifies the author (no Googling!)
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days [...]
Therapy
So, I was reading through this week’s issue of Hellnotes. Like most authors, I’m sure, I started off by checking to see what was in it about me! I had submitted the news about my story being accepted for the MWA anthology a couple of days ago, and wanted to see if it made it [...]
Wanna see something really cool?
Streaming Eagle Cam
Here’s part of an article from CBC:
A webcam is giving thousands of people around the world a close look at the lives of a pair of nesting bald eagles on B.C.’s Hornby Island.
Last week, the website went online as the eagles laid two eggs that are expected to hatch by the end [...]
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.
