Well, that’s done
NCIS was very good last night, with the Mission Impossible-esque caper and the flashback that showed why Ducky was as taken aback as he was by the discovery of the frozen body. The twist behind the mole’s motivation was a good one, though the question remains whether it’s true or another ploy. Glad to see [...]
Greatest hits
I did a full editing pass on the short story I mentioned recently where an editor asked me to tackle the ending from a different perspective. Of course, I couldn’t resist the chance to groom the prose in the rest of the story a little, too. I also wanted to inject a couple of little [...]
Numerology
People familiar with cribbage know that there are a couple of “magic” numbers in that game. 29, for example, is the highest score you can get in a hand. And then there’s 19, which is the only score between 0 and 29 that you cannot get in a hand. It’s just not possible. People I [...]
The Doldrums
My new essay, The Doldrums, is up Storytellers Unplugged. In it I look at my recent listlessness about writing and how I’m getting back on track.
The Doldrums
Originally published at Bev Vincent. You can comment here or there. My new essay, The Doldrums, is up Storytellers Unplugged. In it I look at my recent listlessness about writing and how I’m getting back on track.
20 minutes too long?
We watched 88 Minutes this weekend, a movie that was, oddly enough, 108 minutes long. I thought they might try to do a 24 with it, but that wasn’t the case. In case you’re not familiar with it, it’s a disaster movie—or rather a disaster of a movie. Check your mind at the door entertainment. [...]
Royalty only
I received a royalty check last night for my essay “For Love or Money: Six Marketing Myths,” which is in the HWA collection On Writing Horror. One of the bits of advice I give in that essay is to avoid royalty-only (RO) anthologies, as they tend to have no marketing plan and rarely return anything [...]
Dubious ethics
Interesting developments on Eli Stone last night—the fall out of the grand schism. I hope Maggie’s defection doesn’t mean we won’t be seeing as much of her on the show, as she’s one of the program’s brightest spots. I liked how what’s-his-name had to develop a conscience for the immigration case, and found it not [...]
All the news we hope to print
The Mentalist went a little too far in a direction I advocated a week or two ago. The show was very much about the main character’s skills, but I didn’t care a whit about the actual case under investigation. I got confused about who was married to whom and who was cheating with whom on [...]
Armistice Day
Ninety years ago today, World War I came to an end at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” Back in Canada, it’s Remembrance Day (and it will probably rain in Ottawa for the ceremonies at the cenotaph—in my memory it always rains on Remembrance Day) and in the US it [...]
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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.
