Who’s got the button?
Got the first draft of my Cemetery Dance column for issue 63 written today. It’s due with the editor next Friday, which gives me lots of time to revise and polish it. Once upon a time, these articles ranged anywhere from 5000-7500 words, if you can believe that. Bob Morrish tamed me of my excesses, [...]
This is puzzling
Burn Notice was really good last night. Tense, complex, interesting, funny, violent, intriguing. The bit where Michael had to get the guy to say all the numbers from 0 through 9 was hilarious. Still hot as hell around here these days. Mid-to-high 90s day after day, 1% chance of rain. Phew — it’s still June. [...]
I got nothin’
It’s a good thing I don’t Twitter. I wouldn’t want to inflict my uneventfulness on any. I can’t think of anything at all to blog about today. I didn’t start any new books, didn’t watch anything on television last night (interesting or otherwise). I spent most of the evening on a WebEx conference with my colleagues [...]
On Target
This month’s entry in Storytellers Unplugged is called Adventures in Reading. I wouldn’t mind at all if it rained one of these days. I’m not sure when we last had any (it was a pretty heavy downfall, as I recall), but it wasn’t during the month of June, for which our cumulative rainfall is listed [...]
To quote the famous philosopher, Meat Loaf…
…two out of three ain’t bad. I posted three new reviews to Onyx Reviews yesterday. Two out of three books are currently available (the Lansdale isn’t released until July) and two out of the three are very good (I’ll leave it to you to figure out which isn’t—it’s not much of a challenge!) Vanilla Ride [...]
TINAG
I don’t say this lightly: This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams is one of the best novels I’ve read recently. I’m not familiar with the author, but I plan to seek out some of his other works in the future. It is a very well crafted novel–the first act is a standalone set [...]
T-Mobile saga continues
I received my subscriber copy of Cemetery Dance #60 earlier this week, so it should be in the hands of most people by now or will be shortly. Now all I need is some time to read it. My work schedule has been pretty crazy this week, and next week is only going to be [...]
I Reckon
The season debut of The Closer was pretty good. Gruesome, horrible crime, diversions and misdirections, personal issues, and a tense interrogation through a sheet of plexiglass. I thought I knew what was going on with Law & Order: Criminal Intent this week, but I got fooled. I thought that the father overheard complaints about the [...]
Reruns
I received a royalty check this weekend for On Writing Horror. This is our second dispersement, and thought he checks are paltry, it’s still revenue, so I ain’t complainin’. I also received my contract for my essay in the forthcoming 2010 Stephen King desk calendar. This will be the second year that I have content [...]
On Notice
One thing I observed when I was rereading the proof pages for the short story I mentioned in yesterday’s post: I really, really like this story. It was previously published as a chapbook and will appear in anthology form for the first time later this year. I think it may well be the best thing [...]
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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.
