About
Bev Vincent is the author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life and Influences (nominated for a 2023 Locus Award), The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower (nominated for a Bram Stoker Award), and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award. In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or Fright (a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee) with Stephen King.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Borderlands 5, Ice Cold, and The Blue Religion. Four of his stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and another four in a CD Select eBook. His story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award. "The Honey Trap" from Ice Cold was nominated for an ITW Thriller Award in 2015 and "Zombies on a Plane" was nominated for an Ignotus Award in 2020.
His non-fiction has appeared in diverse magazines, including The Poetry Foundation, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Screem, Pensacola Magazine and Texas Gardener. He has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001 and is a former member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews. He has served as a judge for the Al Blanchard, Shirley Jackson and Edgar Awards.
His work has been translated into: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, HItalian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Bookplates
The Road to the Dark Tower will be published in The Netherlands on April 16th by Luitingh Sijthoff as Het Pad Naar De Donkere Toren. DT7 will be released on the same day. The Dutch Stephen King fan site is … Continue reading
Why endings are sometimes not as well written as beginnings
This may be pure and utter B.S., so feel free to disregard. While I was in the shower this morning, where I do some of my best thinking, I developed a theory that the reason why story endings are sometimes … Continue reading
One click
Technology has enabled us to make bigger and better mistakes more quickly. I use one of those little USB memory sticks for backups of works in progress. They’re great–no moving parts, so they’re less likely to corrupt on you like … Continue reading
What it takes to make me happy
Over the last two months, I haven’t written much new. As far as fiction goes, practically zilch. I’ve been editing like a sonuvabitch (see below), and there has been some new content involved with those revisions, but it’s not the … Continue reading
813.54 VIN
What’s this? The guy goes days–weeks even–without posting to his LJ and now two posts in a few hours? Well, I’ll admit, the first post was made out of guilt. I didn’t really know what I was going to write … Continue reading
Punting
An interesting word, that. To people wrapped up in the NFL post-season it means one thing. To those bearing a long pole loitering near an inviting river, it means something completely different. I rarely pay much attention to football. There’s … Continue reading
Lightening the load
A couple of years ago, I would probably have sworn to you that I’d never do this. It’s funny how our thinking on things can change. I started staring at one of the bookshelves in our living room a month … Continue reading
Coming back to life
Time to wake up and get back to business. What with three trips to Canada in the six weeks, I didn’t get much done with my writing. I carried the manuscript of Missing Persons with me each time I traveled, … Continue reading
I’m usually a fairly private person
Though I enjoy talking about the things that happen in my writing life, I rarely go into details of my private life on this journal or on my message board or anywhere else online. I might mention something in passing, … Continue reading