Non-fiction week
My writing sessions this week will be devoted almost entirely to non-fiction. Because of some delays with an issue of Cemetery Dance magazine, the editor gave me the opportunity to update a column I submitted a few months ago. He wants it back by the end of the week, so that’s going to be my [...]
Back in school
I visited a high school creative writing class this morning. I forgot how early kids around here go to school—7:20 a.m. It’s an elective and today is the last day before spring break, so it was a smaller group than usual, but they were very eager and seemed receptive to my ramblings. The teacher had [...]
Faster than a speeding bullet
My brand new short story “Screaming Jenny” was accepted for Legends of the Mountain State: Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia, which will be published by Woodland Press in October. The editor told me he liked it as much after reading it the second time as he did the first. This one must [...]
A reprieve
The anthology I was sure I was going to miss out on because the deadline is in ten days just extended its deadline by two months. All right! Like a stay of execution. What’s more, the guest speaker at the next MWA/SW luncheon is a specialist in the very topic that I want to write [...]
Hey, presto!
The DVD copy of Stranger than Fiction I rented was defective. It played the trailers okay, but froze up solid whenever I tried to start the movie. Another time. We watched The Prestige. Who were we supposed to root for? This was rivalry taken to a mean-spirited extreme. David Bowie was excellent as Tesla (why [...]
Comfort or safety?
I haven’t been getting much writing done this week. I’m not exactly sure why. I think it may be because my sleep schedule has been disrupted a bit. I’m fairly regular in my sleep habits, and when things get knocked out of kilter, it messes me up a little. I’ve been getting up on schedule, [...]
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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.
