Mercury falling
Not the planet, the stuff in the thermometer. When I went to breakfast this morning, it was a balmy and muggy 73°. Same when I left the bagel shop and started driving to work, though there was an ominous black cloud looming over the trees to the north. I clicked on the digital readout [...]
Post-tryptophan
Got back last night from a six-day trip to eastern Canada to visit family. It was a good time to travel out of the country. Once we got past Houston, we were in the territory of “we celebrated Thanksgiving over a month ago” so the airports were no more busy than usual.
Air Canada has some [...]
Happy long weekend!
This time last year, I was preparing to drive across Texas to research the setting for the novel I was writing as a NaNoWriMo project. It’s called The Silent Desert and is set in the Sanderson-Marathon-Alpine-Marfa region of the state on Highway 90. I had written about 80% of the book by this point, and [...]
The commonwealth
I crossed over 43,000 words for NaNoWriMo this weekend and brought my novel manuscript up over 62,000 words, so I’m very pleased with my progress on the project in the past three weeks or so. Tomorrow I’m going to print the manuscript out and have it spiral bound so I can take it with me [...]
Pomp and circumstance
I graduated from Citizens’ Police Academy last night. We had a nice little ceremony, complete with honor guard and speeches. The retinue on the stage included chiefs and captains and chaplains from the department. The CPA organizer wore his police uniform, the first time we’d seen him in blue. And armed. We paraded up [...]
The Librarian
I ended up on TNT’s marketing list, I guess, because out of the blue a couple of weeks ago I received a press kit for their upcoming original movie The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines, which airs in early December, along with a screener DVD of the movie. I remembered seeing most of the [...]
Christmas in November
It’s a windy, windy day here. An advancing cold front, I suppose. Strong wind is something we don’t experience very often in southeast Texas. I grew up in eastern Canada where, especially in the wintertime, high winds weren’t uncommon. What they call “tropical force” winds around here are what we called “a breeze” when I [...]
Allowing myself to hope
The last couple of days have been very productive, and I’m now just a hair shy of 20,000 words for the month. Given that tomorrow’s the 15th, that means I’m only about 3300 words off the NaNoWriMo pace. Another couple of days like these and I could be back on track. I keep telling myself [...]
Will you like this post?
So, we went to see a play at the Alley Theater on Friday night. It was called Tryst and heavily promoted as a romantic thriller. Seemed like something appropriate for an anniversary outing. Turned out that the definition of “romantic” is “woman naked for 20 seconds on stage” and thriller is “something really bad happens [...]
CSI: Houston
Last night was the final formal class at Citizens Police Academy. Our speaker was a long-time member of the Houston Police Department’s Crime Scene Unit. His was one of the presentations I had been looking forward to most, and he didn’t disappoint. Part of his job was to set the record straight. To de-C.S.I. the [...]
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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.
