Writing in my sleep
I woke up yesterday morning and started writing right away. That doesn’t seem unusual, except I didn’t get out of bed to do this. I was lying there, mostly awake, constructing sentences and paragraphs, going back to edit what I’d written in my mind. It was almost like I was dictating it to myself. After [...]
Everybody out of the gene pool
Once upon a time, in the late 1700s, there was a couple named Duncan and Ann (Kelso) McCormack who lived on the Isle of Arran (town of Corrie) off the western coast of Scotland. They had two sons, John (born 1802) and William (born 1806) who emigrated to Canada, arriving in Dalhousie, New Brunswick in [...]
Knots (not nuts) in the family tree
I finished Still Waters the other night. The ending was wretched. The main character, upon gentle prodding, suddenly remembered in intricate detail an encounter he’d had years earlier that tied in to the current case. I can’t possibly imagine how someone wouldn’t be able to make the connection between one instance where all the fingers [...]
Sound effects
Law and Order: Criminal Intent was back on USA this weekend with a fine episode. Bobby Goren is one of the most interesting characters the franchise has created. The story involved a way to get him back on the job after his prolonged suspension because of things he did at the end of last season, [...]
It’s in the genes
You know it’s going to be a hot day when it’s 85° at 8 a.m. The weekend was typical Texas summertime hot, too, but I didn’t mind that too much. What I did mind were these flies that appeared, thick as thieves, any time we had anything that looked or smelled like food (or alcohol, [...]
Wears a coat and pants
In this weather, I’m sure that’s an apt description of any dog around here. Hot enough to drive a man to drink…iced tea, by the gallons. With my Dexter marathon done, I’m plumb out of things to watch on TV. I taped Fear Itself for later viewing, and this weekend there’s the return of Law [...]
Dexter marathon done
Spent an hour yesterday upside down in the dentist chair while the dentist dug out an old crown, filled a cavity that had crept in beneath it, and installed a temporary replacement. (They must have used the good cement that day, he commented while trying to remove the old gold.) He hit a good nerve [...]
Definitely digging Dexter
This is the way to watch a continuing TV series—all at once. Over the course of the past two days, I’ve watched the first seven (of 12) episodes of season two of Dexter. The second season is all about Dexter spinning plates to make sure the wheels don’t fall off his secrets, to mix some [...]
Continuity
I might give In Plain Sight another chance next week, because sometimes they’re still working out the kinks during pilots and first episodes, but I wasn’t impressed with the series debut. It seems like they haven’t decided how campy to be yet, so the show wanders from deadly serious to almost a parody. The main [...]
The end is near
I made it to the end of the novel manuscript yesterday afternoon, marking it up a few chapters at a time and then keying the changes into the electronic copy. I have a few notes to myself in Word comments to handle and then it will be ready to send to my agent, who says [...]
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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.
