Some Survivors get it right
Finally, contestants on Survivor figure out how to neutralize the threat of people holding immunity idols—stab ‘em in the back and get ‘em off the island. Last night was a beautiful thing to behold. Witness: Todd’s grin when the window of opportunity for James to play his idols elapsed. I thought Amanda handled it all [...]
Further Adrift
I have a short story called “Adrift” coming up in the anthology Hard Old Spot, which editor Mike Heffernan (A Dark and Deadly Valley) is publishing through his new Hard Ticket Press next year. The story is an ode of sorts to the place where I grew up—or, rather, more of a dirge, since most [...]
The truth about blogging
I wrote another thousand words on my new story this morning. 900 words continued where I left off yesterday and 100 words were the final paragraphs, which came to mind to me sometime yesterday. They maybe not be the absolute final paragraphs, but it’s the story kicker. The “oh shit” moment.
The first draft is [...]
Back at the keyboard
I wrote my first words of fiction of the month of November this morning. Nearly 1000 of them. I saw a call for submissions for a themed anthology and it struck a chord with me. I have this trunk story from 1982 that I’ve never done anything with because I thought it was hopelessly derivative. [...]
Brrrrr
I know I won’t get much sympathy from folks up north, but the last two days have been cold, rainy and miserable around here. By “cold” I mean about 40 degrees. There’s been a more-or-less constant drizzle since yesterday morning, which makes it perfect weather for staying inside and eating turkey soup.
Our turkey leftovers are [...]
System restore is a wonderful thing
For the most part, I ignore the system restore utility in XP. I was peripherally aware of it, but never had any call to explore it more fully. When I took over my daughter’s old laptop computer after she got a new one, she was able to restore the system to exactly the way it [...]
Rendition
My computer is bogged down rendering a video, so I thought I might as well blog, since I can’t do much else for the next fifteen minutes.
Speaking of bogged down, my ISP provides free antivirus software and firewall, which I have been making use of on my home computers. They recently changed from one brand [...]
I hate it when I do that
I had to go out to a banquet last night (my wife was being presented with her first research grant!) so I set the DVR to capture the CBS shows. Except I didn’t—I really set it to capture three hours of ABC shows. So now I have to resort to watching Survivor and C.S.I. online, [...]
In Good Company
I received new information about The Blue Religion, the Mystery Writers of America anthology that contains my short story “Rule Number One.” The book is edited by Michael Connelly and features stories from Connelly, Jon L. Breen, Alafair Burke, Leslie Glass, John Harvey, Edward D. Hoch, Laurie R. King, T. Jefferson Parker, Peter Robinson [...]
Anyone see NCIS last night?
I missed a section of NCIS last night. If you saw it, could you add a comment that tells me how the McGee subplot turned out. He was getting all these huge credit card charges that had something to do with the new girl who moved in across the hall from him. Thanks!
I thought House [...]
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.
