Madder Men
I watched Eureka last night. I like the way the plots usually boil down to analogs of what Sheriff Carter is going through raising his daughter. Last night it was the rebellious teenager symbolized by the runaway, sentient and spoiled brat drone. Sure, sometimes it’s a bit of a stretch, and never very subtle, but [...]
Mad Men
I finished my first on-screen edit of the recent crime story without making too many changes. Then I went at it in hardcopy this morning and found myself making a lot of changes. They are two completely different editing processes, I find. If I haven’t gone through a story at least once with pencil and [...]
102 degrees of separation
I wrote a 5000-word short story a few weeks ago and haven’t looked at it since. Part of me was probably afraid that something that I whipped out in two days was going to suck, so I’ve been shying away from it. This morning, I opened the document and started reading and was pleasantly surprised [...]
Catching up
My to-do list was filling up with short stories that were in need of markets, so this weekend I got several of them either out the door again or ready to go. One will go out this Friday to a market whose reading period opens then. Another is targeted at a specific market, but I [...]
How to Make Friends With Demons
I mentioned yesterday that I received an ARC of Graham Joyce’s upcoming novel. Actually it was an eARC, and I think this is the first time that I’ve read an entire novel on the computer screen, other than one of my own in chunks. It wasn’t a bad experience, and I went throught he entire [...]
The creatures of the forest and the forests themselves rejoice
It’s raining. Yay!
It has been really dry here lately. The driveway is littered with brown pine needles and the lawn has brownish patches. I’m not a diligent waterer of lawns. I figure they should be able to look after themselves most of the time. Oh, every now and then, when I’m feeling guilty about how [...]
Hello, Dolly
(to be said in the same tone as “Hello, Newman”)
Hurricane Dolly upped the ante to Category 2 a while ago, but she came ashore far enough from us to not cause any worries. I’m hoping we get a good soaking rainfall at least. We could use it.
Finished off my TV show catch-up from NECON weekend [...]
NECON and Redemption
Looks like Dolly isn’t going to come calling on us, though we might get some much-needed rain from the tropical storm-cum-hurricane that will probably make landfall down in Brownsville.
Got caught up on a couple of recorded TV shows last night. First up was Burn Notice, which was a by-the-numbers episode, which meant it was very [...]
Back in the real world
I’ve been away in Portsmouth, Rhode Island for the past few days attending NECON, my favorite XXXcon, though Nick Kaufmann’s suggestion of ConCon (featuring only people in prisons) has great potential.
Travel to and fro was without incident. Got in early to both destinations on Thursday, met up with Charles and Cara Colyott at the airport [...]
‘Twas the night before NECON
An era is coming to an end. William Petersen is leaving C.S.I. sometime during the upcoming season. Apparently Sara, Lady Heather and the miniature killer will all be appearing before his departure, and he has agreed to return from time to time for guest appearances and will continue to executive produce the show, but it’s [...]
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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.
