Timing is everything?
I interviewed Tabitha King last year before the release of her collaboration with Michael McDowell, a southern gothic novel called Candles Burning. When the original venue for my interview went belly up, I decided to query some other markets. I found Pensacola Magazine and decided—perfect! The second half of Candles Burning is set in Pensacola. [...]
The killer was an orangutan
Got my rewrite orders from Rue Morgue, so I spent the evening at the computer and polished it off this morning. Sent it in to the Managing Editor before I left for work. My first version was too bland, I think. Just the facts, ma’am, kinda writing. I may have gone to far in the [...]
C. Auguste Dupin
I turned in a 600-word report on The Mist to Rue Morgue magazine this morning. This is the first time I’ve written a pyramid-style article in a long, long time, so I’m waiting to hear back to see if I came close to what they’re looking for or whether I was off in right field [...]
Out of the Mist
Last Wednesday afternoon, I drove four hours over to Shreveport, Louisiana and picked up Rich Chizmar (Cemetery Dance) at the airport. The next morning we picked up actor Johnathan Schaech from his hotel—he’s Rich’s partner in Chesapeake Productions—and crossed the Red River for the first day of a two-day visit to the set of The [...]
Two margaritas–just what I needed
I’m in Bossier City, Louisiana at present, which is part of Shreveport. I left the office at 1 pm and got here right at 5 pm in time for rush hour. One of my coworkers had told me the drive would take nearly six hours. MapQuest was more optimistic, predicting just under five. I did [...]
Taking care of business
I received my contracts for “Sturm und Drang,” my story in A Dark and Deadly Valley last night, so that’s another bit of business taken care of.
I had a surprise e-mail from my Road to the Dark Tower agent today asking for an e-copy of the manuscript because another European market had expressed interest in [...]
The Apex of my career
Apex Digest #9, containing my contest-winning short story “Sufficiently Advanced,” was released over the weekend. I haven’t seen it yet, but the cover is a beauty to behold. It’s one of my few magazine appearances with cover credit, except for those instances where my pseudonym (“and others”) is listed.
Wish I had Joe 90’s BIG [...]
BIG RAT
Things fall into place. There’s a moment when it seems like all the deadlines are going to collide and I’m going to—god forbid—turn something in late. I don’t do that. I’m never late. Early, perhaps. Never late. Even getting close to being late makes me nervous.
I did a major rewrite of my Cemetery Dance column [...]
Boom
Thunder just crashed outside my office window. We’re about to be in the midst of our third fierce rainstorm of the week. The one on Sunday had hailstones that punctured things. The heavy wind last night bent over the palm trees like a hurricane does. We’ve already exceeded the average monthly rainfall for March and [...]
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I haven’t seen 24 yet—have it on tape—so I’ve been trying to avoid spoilers all day. It’s been easy—I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. Not a peep. I’ll get a chance to watch it tonight, I think. Thanks to March Madness and post-sweeps malaise, most of the shows that I normally watch are reruns. Tonight, [...]
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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.
