My Name is Earl
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Milord Earl Bev the Rustic of Goosnargh on the Carpet Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title
Season’s Greetings to one and all. I’m going to be spending the next few days poking around at a new project I’ve been contemplating for a couple of [...]
Who the hell is that?
I managed two short fiction submissions this morning. One was to an anthology with a deadline and the other was to a literary magazine that I’ve never submitted to before. One submission was e-mail, the other postal. Both stories were very short: 950 and 1300 words respectively. One has a 1-word title, the other a [...]
News from the DZ
I’m craving fruitcake. Can you believe that? I saw one in the lunch room yesterday and had flashbacks to the one my mother used to make when I was young. So I e-mailed my sister to get the recipe and I’m going to tackle it this weekend. Sucker takes three hours to bake and reportedly [...]
Ghost Inn
This morning I put the finishing touches on the final chapter of the first draft of a novel I call Ghost Inn. The book came in at around 94,000 words. I started it two years ago after NECON in response to a call for proposals issued there, but when that proposal didn’t come to fruition, [...]
It’s that time of year…
…when the year seems almost over, but there’s so much to get through before we reach the end.
By this time next week I will have finalized an essay for Storytellers Unplugged (it will go up on Sunday), finished a column for Cemetery Dance (due on the 20th) as well as a long review (ditto) [...]
Holy Crap
Peter Boyle, perhaps best known these days as Frank Barone from Everyone Loves Raymond, died yesterday. The photograph accompanying this article makes it look like he had failed considerably since the end of Raymond.
If you’re a Marvel collector or Dark Tower fan, visit your local Marvel outlet today and pick up a copy of the [...]
Stars on ice
The company who does our larger printing projects rented out the local ice rink last night and invited their clients to a free skate. I honestly cannot remember the last time I strapped on a pair of ice skates. I’ve gone rollerblading a lot since I moved to Texas, but I don’t think I’ve been [...]
POETS
An acronym I discovered in the new Ian Rankin (Naming of the Dead). POETS = Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. Seemed apropos to the moment, though I have no inclination to POE at the moment.
Received a big shipment from Amazon yesterday—I haven’t been buying many new books lately, what with all the free ones people [...]
THE END is near
One of the signs of the apocalypse: the actual production of a movie based on the King/Straub collaboration, The Talisman. Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to this book over twenty years ago. Today, TNT announced they were going to produce (with DreamWorks) a six-hour miniseries adaptation that will air on their cable channel in the [...]
Gonna get my name on the cover…
I have a standing joke that my pseudonym is “and others.” This comes from the fact that, of all the anthologies that have published my stories, none have put my name on the cover. It’s always “Stephen King…and others” or “Brian Keene…and others,” etc. I’ve considered registering www.AndOthers.com as a secondary domain. (I discovered recently [...]
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.
