2022 – A Year in Review – Part 1 – Publications

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Bev Vincent

Time to look back at the year that will be drawing to a close in less than two weeks and ruminate. Was it a good year? Was it a bad year? One for the history books or one we’d prefer to forget?

All in all, it wasn’t a bad year at all. My wife and I both managed to get through the third year in a row without getting COVID-19, which I hope I’m not jinxing by saying that. We ventured out into the world a little bit more. Took our first flight since 2019. Spent a couple of weekends down at the coast. Dined out at local restaurants—mostly, but not exclusively outdoors, especially not that the temperatures have dropped.

Speaking of which, we’re going to have a hard freeze starting on Thursday night, with temperatures dropping into the mid-teens (-10°C) without getting above freezing until sometime on Saturday. Pretty unusual for southeast Texas, but I think unusual weather is going to be the rule rather than the exception from now on.

My big publishing news for 2022 was the September release of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life and Influences. To my delight, the book has been very well received and reviewed (I collected many of the reviews on the page at the link above), and a number of translated editions have been commissioned. Two have been released already and at least four more are planned for next year. I have been immensely pleased by the response to the book. Safe to say it exceeded my expectations.

In support of the book, I have done a lot of interviews, both in print and online. Here they all are, in handy bullet form!

That’s not the end, though—I did one podcast interview last weekend and I have another one lined up for the middle of January.

I also published one interview where I was on the other side of the questioning: an interview with Stephen King & Richard Chizmar about Gwendy’s Final Task, published in Fangoria last February.

I published a few essays this year, too.

(The Long Walk intro won’t be published until next month and was written in 2019, but I’m including it here just because it’s so cool.)

It was also a productive year for short fiction publications—quite possibly a record year for me. Here are all the short stories that came out in 2022 (not including translations of previously published stories). They run the gamut from crime to science fiction to horror, a pretty good blend in my humble opinion.

  1. Kane and Averill, Black Cat Weekly #18, January 2022
  2. Kane’s Theory, Low Down Dirty Vote, Volume III: The Color of My Vote, May 2022
  3. Double Play, Summer Bludgeon: An Unsettling Reads Anthology, June 21, 2022
  4. Kane’s Alibi, The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories, Mango, July 12, 2022
  5. Date Night, Picnic in the Graveyard, Cemetery Gates Media, 2022
  6. The Unburied Past, The First Line, Vol 24, Issue 2, Summer 2022
  7. Cold Case, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Vol. 3 No. 4 (#12), 2022
  8. Death Sentence, Black Cat Weekly #51, August 2022
  9. Something Strange, Land of 10000 Crimes, September 2022
  10. A Grave Issue, FOUND: An anthology of found footage horror stories, October 8, 2022
  11. When an Alien Calls, Campfire Macabre Volume 2, Cemetery Gates Media, October 2022
  12. Good Neighbors, Gone, Red Dog Press, November 2022
  13. The Lagrange Point, Fans Are Buried Tales, Crazy 8 Press, November 2022
  14. Life Saver, Still of Winter, Unsettling Reads, December 2022

I have several stories cued up for 2023 already, too.

What comes next? My agent is going to start shopping around a novel in the new year, which is simultaneously thrilling and terrifying. I also plan to write another novella for a follow-up to Dissonant Harmonies, a story that I have been calling “The Dead of Night,” a sort-of sequel to “The Dead of Winter.” I’m also toying with the idea of putting together a mini-collection of four seasonal stories, three of which were published in Unsettling Reads anthologies, the fourth yet to be written.

Beyond that—who knows?

Stay tuned in the coming days for my top X lists of books, TV series and movies, not necessarily in that order.

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