One way to decrease the size of the TBR stack
I don’t often stop reading a book. I may be guilty at times of putting a book aside with a bookmark in place while I tackle something else, but I usually intend to go back. I usually do go back, although somewhere in the house there is a hardcover copy of Clive Barker’s Imajica, purchase [...]
Glengarry GlenRoss
There was a big, heavy box waiting for me on the front porch when I got home last night. I scratched my head, trying to figure out what I might have ordered that would be that big. And heavy. Inside: my ten contributor copies of The Blue Religion, which will be in bookstores in two [...]
Groundwood
My short story Groundwood was accepted for publication by Wrong World. They will produce it as a PDF that is accompanied by an audio narrative introduction and wrap-up in the style of The Twilight Zone. “Groundwood” will appear in July’s WRONG WORLD® collection “INFLATION—Things that go big in the night.”
Here’s the audio/video trailer. If that [...]
Shock the monkey
Heard the song on the radio. According to Gabriel, the monkey is a metaphor for a person’s feelings of jealousy and the song itself is a love song. Huh.
This morning I reached the part of the novel in progress where I was able to write “THE END.” And it was the end—of a nearly three-month [...]
Adrift
Coincidentally, episode 11 of season 2 of Torchwood has the same title as one of my recent short stories, one that will be published in an anthology of Atlantic Canadian tales this fall. The stories bear no resemblance beyond the title, which contains within it the key element of the story, the rift. I liked [...]
Fireworks and torches
I closed in on 70K words on the novel in progress this morning. I should be finished the first draft by the end of the week. I’m at the final showdown. My protagonist is getting the shit kicked out of him.
I went on a Torchwood frenzy this weekend, watching seven episodes starting with S2E04: Meat [...]
Rolling stories gather no moss
Yesterday may have been the first time in my writing career that I submitted the same story twice within an 12-14 hour period. I sent it out in the morning, got a rejection in the afternoon and found a new market for it in the evening.
It feels good to be back behind the wheel of [...]
I lost the atomic bomb
Jericho is da bomb. It has really picked up during this mini-season. There were times during Season 1 that I almost gave up on it, but I haven’t been tempted to surrender this year at all. And there’s only one more show to go. Bummer. I think Beck is one of the best-drawn anticaricatures in [...]
Reading backwards
I’m still reading The Blue Religion back to front, for no particular reason, except perhaps that Michael Connelly’s story is at the back and it was where I wanted to start. Most recently Polly Nelson’s tale, “Burying Mr. Nelson,” which is a delightful period story with a brilliant twist at the end. I also really [...]
It’s fun being green
We watched August Rush on-demand on Friday evening. A cute fable of a story, with Robin Williams in an interesting Faginesque role. It’s a dreamy movie almost completely detached from reality, but charming all the same. We rented The Jane Austen Book Club on Saturday and loved it. A passing familiarity with Austen’s novels, characters [...]
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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.
