It was all a blur
One of those weekends. We had to get up before 4 a.m. Saturday to take our daughter to the airport to return to university. I’m not the sort to go back to bed after being up and about for a while, so that was the start of the day. I had to take my car [...]
Almost to the penny
I sent the sixth draft manuscript of Missing Persons to my agent yesterday, so I celebrated by taking the morning off. I have to get up really early tomorrow morning, so the extra two hours of sleep will probably do me some good. Tomorrow is going to be my “take it easy” day. Get caught [...]
I see, said the blind detective played by a famous writer
I’m getting near the end of this round of revisions. Forty manuscript pages left to reread. Silly me, I thought I’d do the final read-through in one weekend. (Actually, I thought I’d get it done in one day.) I’ve made some fairly dramatic changes to the manuscript in the last three weeks. It’s definitely trimmer— [...]
Hidden
I watched two movies this weekend. They were possibly as different as you could imagine, but I enjoyed them both. The first one was well-reviewed, the second panned. What can I say? I’m easily entertained.
The first is Caché, a French film directed by an Austrian. It stars two of our favorite European actors, Daniel Auteuil [...]
Police Academy
I received word today that I’ve been accepted into the Houston Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy, and I’m really looking forward to the experience.
This is an 11-week program (one three-hour class per week, on Thursday evenings) where civilians get to see the inner workings of a police department. Among the topics that will be explored [...]
Unplugged
My new essay is up at Storytellers Unplugged, in which I ramble on about some of the best author readings I’ve attended. If you check out the comments section you’ll find a link to the Gary Braunbeck reading I mention in the essay. One of my favorite things about this essay series is the immediate [...]
Paging Johnny Depp
Work proceeds apace on Missing Persons. After this morning’s session, I have only about sixty pages left to read through. That’s right on track to get to the point where I can print it out this weekend and do an intensive readthrough. The manuscript has been reduced from 369 pages to about 285, so at [...]
A little off the sides, please
Another weekend spent primarily tossing in the trash stuff that nearly two years ago I spent weeks writing. The great purge continues, and I’m now about 2/3 of the way through the manuscript. To date, nearly 11,000 words and 65 pages have been tossed. I have one more chapter that requires a major rewrite (which [...]
With a pounding heart
I talked with a couple of colleagues yesterday and I noticed a common theme among our discussions. The trepidation and anxiety that can be part and parcel of the entertainment business in general. Sometimes the stakes are really big (book proposals, movie options, licensing deals) and sometimes they are somewhat mundane (normal short story submissions), [...]
See Rowling, Irving and King — today/tomorrow only
For those book lovers and fans world-wide who could not attend the star-studded literary event at Radio City Music Hall last week, “AN EVENING WITH HARRY, CARRIE & GARP” will now be available to watch free of charge in its entirety for two days only. On Thursday, August 10 and Friday, August 11 MSN will [...]
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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.
