Apres moi, le deluge
We received our first significant rainfall for the month of June yesterday evening. Of course, it started when my wife and I were halfway through our constitutional, at the point of no return. It started with a few sporadic drops, which I misattributed to a lawn sprinkler we’d just passed. By the time we rounded [...]
Where did June go?
I read Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain cover to cover yesterday and posted my review last night. A fast-paced serial killer novel, third in the series. It doesn’t come out until September but since I had to review it for Amazon’s Vine program I figured I might as well post the review on Onyx as [...]
Squirrely behavior
We have a patio table with umbrella on our back deck, the base which is supported by a large, tapered stone. Lately, one of the local squirrels, of which there are many, has taken to sprawling on this stone in the hot afternoons, spread out much like the critter in the accompanying photograph. The pose is strikingly possessive, [...]
Another puzzle to while away the hours
Or at least a few minutes. Click on the image to get to the puzzle.
Feedback
I received a two-page e-mail from my agent yesterday with detailed feedback about my most recent novel. He’s a very perceptive reader, and picked out some thematic elements that I hadn’t planned but are obvious in retrospect. He also had some very useful suggestions about how to develop some of the characters so their presence has [...]
Some Like it Hot
I was one of the millions of people who had Farrah plastering their walls in the 1970s. Not just the famous poster, but pretty much every poster available. I’ve always been partial to the one at the right (left in some browsers!), from the set of a forgettable movie called Sunburn. My college friends and [...]
Advanced Math
It’s another scorcher out there today. 101° by late afternoon. It’s not too bad so long as you stay in the air conditioning. It’s supposed to “cool off” by Sunday, when the forecast high is only 94°.
A little more progress with that neat project that I mentioned yesterday. I’m going to be looking at a [...]
Three little digits
It was 100° according to my car thermometer when I left work yesterday afternoon, and the same is predicted for the rest of the week. The heat index adds about 8-10° to that. Chance of rain: an optimistic 15% each day through Friday, which is more than it’s been lately. And it’s still June, which [...]
It is coming
The long awaited return of Torchwood is nearly here. The five-part miniseries event “Children of the Earth” will air in the UK starting on Saturday, July 4. BBC America will start it on July 20th. See a trailer here, along with a teaser for the November episode of Doctor Who, “Waters of Mars.”
Goran got [...]
Not a city in Italy
I read the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” to my wife last night as a follow up to seeing the movie the night before. As I expected, there was very little overlap between film and story beyond the basic conceit–person born old and aging backwards. In the short story, [...]
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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.
