Author Archives: Bev Vincent

Books, Movies and TV

It was 100° the day we arrived in San Francisco, the tail end of a heat wave, but it moderated quickly after that. Most days the temperature was in the seventies and it was in the forties at night, which … Continue reading

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Up, up and away

I’ve been away on vacation for the past week. Got back home around midnight last night after a week in northern California. Even though I took my iPad and had WiFi, it’s taking me a while to get caught up. … Continue reading

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Ninja storm

We got smacked by a storm that snuck up on us yesterday afternoon. Nobody seriously expected we’d get any rain yesterday. They posted a 20% chance, but that was just them being optimistic. But then around 3:30 or 4:00 the … Continue reading

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Every day, the same old thing

Spent much of the weekend reading over the manuscript for my next book before it goes off to the copy editor. I found a bunch of typos and slip-ups. Not a ton, but enough. I still have a fair amount … Continue reading

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Didn’t see that coming

We had a good soaking rain overnight. We need it. However, the dog next door didn’t seem pleased to be outside during the heavy rain, thunder and lightning, which meant we didn’t get a great night’s sleep. You know how, … Continue reading

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Death is a lonely business

Whenever people ask me who has influenced my writing, they’re generally surprised by my response. After waffling on about how everyone I ever read has contributed to my style and approach, I generally cite one author as the greatest influence, … Continue reading

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Squeal like a zombie

I solved another problem with my message board that means I won’t be so hasty to migrate to new software, which takes a load of work off my plate. The main problem with the YaBB board (other than its habit … Continue reading

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One card short of a full deck

My old message board seems to be toast. I moved it to a different server and it works there, so I can recover the data from it, but I can’t coax it into working on the existing server. I’m going … Continue reading

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Therapy

This week’s episode of The Killing was actually pretty interesting. It’s neat how they’re borrowing scenes from the Danish version and making them their own. The bit where the evidence is floored over has an analog in the original, but … Continue reading

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Beginnings

My message board appears to be offline today. I’m not quite sure what the issue is. If it doesn’t resolve itself by tomorrow, I will explore further. I have been planning to replace this old, clunky Perl board with a … Continue reading

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