I sent in an update to News from the Dead Zone wherein I briefly review seven episodes from the upcoming Nightmares & Dreamscapes (note: new official web site) anthology series that debuts on TNT July 12th. I was pleasantly surprised by The End of the Whole Mess, which has one of the best emotional arcs of the seven episodes. The update should be online sometime today.
Was the weekend productive? Perhaps. Depends upon your definition. I spent most of Saturday reorganizing my office. I came into a few more drawers in the file cabinets, so I pulled everything out of the old drawers and put them into logical order. Published short stories in one place, alphabetical by title instead of simply crammed into wherever there was (almost) enough room for the file. Unpublished/incomplete stories: ditto. Non-fiction gets its own drawer for the first time, as does pending and in-progress works. Novels! An abudance of drawer space. The three teetering stacks of unfiled papers on the floor near my desk is down to one, and it doesn’t even teeter any more.
I went through my acceptance/rejection file and turned it into a pure rejection file after filing the acceptance letters where they belonged—in the files with the story manuscripts. Reduced the pile of submission guidelines on one pull-out ledge on my rolltop desk by pitching the ones that have deadlines older than yesterday. I think I have to go through this process every now and then, and Saturday seemed like a good time as I had just finished a story draft and was unsure of what to tackle next.
Yesterday I finalized a 700-word profile for Pensacola Magazine. Alas, the piece isn’t scheduled to run until next April, but I wanted to get it finished. It turned out pretty good, I think. Hope the editor feels the same way. I also wrote the first draft of my Storytellers Unplugged essay, which will go online on Saturday.
Here’s the interview I did with CBC last Friday: Bev Vincent Is An Author Who Writes Horror Stories (RealAudio, runs 9:21).
Editor Steve Savile gave us permission to announce our involvement and start promoting the book, and I’ve mentioned it a couple of times elsewhere, including in the above interview, so here it is. The story I just finished, Leap Second, is a Doctor Who story for Destination: Prague (Big Finish Productions Ltd., 2007). Google will reveal other authors who’ve announced their involvement.
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