Everything Changes
So, is Brenda Leigh Johnson entering menopause? That would be my diagnosis. Last night’s episode of The Closer was pretty transparent. It was obvious from early on that the murder victims weren’t killed by rivals but instead by someone they knew. I watched the first episode of Torchwood last night, Everything Changes. I like Eve [...]
Numb
Death on the Nile was entertaining. It was fun watching my wife trying to puzzle out whodunit. I’d read the novel a long time ago and remembered enough of the plot that I knew what was going on, and it was intriguing to see how Christie planted the clues, and how even the structure of [...]
Dustin up
More work on the introduction this morning—I have a nearly complete first draft. I expect to get it in shape to revise tomorrow morning, unless it doesn’t rain, in which case I will be mowing the lawn. Tomorrow we’re going to see Death on the Nile at the Alley Theater, based on the Agatha Christie [...]
Something old, something old
Watched Eureka last night. Continues to be a good show. Apparently my word-of-mouth at NECON was enough to get someone else hooked on it. Spread the news! I have a hard time looking at Olivia d’Abo as anything but sinister, though, after her repeat appearances as Bobby’s nemesis on Law and Order: CI. The way [...]
Evel Dick
I tackled editorial revisions to my story Popup Killer this morning. Got most of the way through the suggestions from Apex. About 90% of them I accepted—only quibbled over a few that are stylistic. I have a couple of plot issues to handle before I send it back in again. I also have to produce [...]
Back in the saddle again
This morning was my first trip upstairs to my office computer since last Wednesday—maybe even since Tuesday. I thought I might get some work done, but all I did was bookkeeping. Recording rejections and acceptances in my submission log, for example. Filing e-mails in the proper folders. Catching up, in general. I received my copyedits [...]
WHANSAN
NECON—the time of year when I am reintroduced to muscles I forgot I had, thanks to exertion at the softball game. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I met up with Charles and Cara Colyott at the Philadelphia airport and drove with them to Roger Williams University for my fifth (I’m fairly sure) NECON. Checked [...]
Gone NECONin’
Probably won’t be reading or writing much online for the next several days. I have a crack-of-dawn flight tomorrow and get in to my destination at the end of the afternoon. I’ll have limited internet access on Friday and Saturday, and then it’s back home on Sunday. US Air arbitrarily changed my return flights—I had [...]
The internet will fall silent
At least the pages and blogs I frequent, I suspect, since so many of those responsible will be heading for NECON on Thursday. Why do we go to conventions? That’s the question I explore in this month’s Storytellers Unplugged essay. Due to technical difficulties, the podcast version isn’t yet available but it might be by [...]
Good weather for ducks
…and cranes or herons. A medium-sized wading bird that bears a vague resemblance to a roadrunner in its coloration has moved into our neighborhood. It stands stock still in the water-filled ditches. If it’s looking for fish, it’s SOL, but crawfish that build mud chimneys live in the ditches, so maybe he (or she) is [...]
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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.
