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
Author Archives: Bev Vincent
Swimming with the fishes
I was pleased to hear back from the editor to whom I sent last week’s new short story this morning. Though the anthology in question is not a definite go yet, he liked the story enough to say that he … Continue reading
Unstoppable
After a few more review passes, I submitted the newest short story to the editor. It was a little bit presumptuous, but just a little. This is for an invitation-only anthology and one of the other contributors asked me to … Continue reading
Gold in them thar hills
Another editing pass through the work in progress. Trimmed by an additional 200 words. I’ll probably send it out tomorrow. For a long time I’ve had a story on the short list for consideration for inclusion in Thrillers 3, the … Continue reading
Heights, snakes and red-headed women
The new short story is at the upper limit in length of what I can review in a normal morning editing/writing session. I made it through the whole thing again today, whittling away about 200 words in the process, so … Continue reading
Elementary
Acceptance letters make me smile. I received one last night from a relatively new Canadian pro market for a story called “Matthias Comes Home From the War.” More details once all the paperwork is finished. I also received the page … Continue reading
Spoilers (not really)
I did my first full editing pass/read-through of the work in progress. As suspected, I introduced a few glitches by time-shifting the story a couple of times. I caught four or five of them on this pass. However, I think … Continue reading
Where were the awards?
I finally, finally finished the first draft of the WiP yesterday afternoon. It came in at about 5700 words, but that was after a total renovation of the first 2/3 of the story. For the second time I had to … Continue reading
Make sure they spell my name right
Almost finished doing the taxes and looking forward to a refund, which is always nice. Listening to Split Enz and getting ready for a productive day of writing. The plan: finish first draft of short story, revise proposal, get two … Continue reading
Well, she did set him on fire
It’s warming up—it’s all the way up to 28°, which is a major improvement over 22°. Forties today, fifties tomorrow and Saturday, sixties on Sunday and seventies on Monday. I like that trend. Still laboring at the work in progress. … Continue reading
NCIS on a couch
I wrote another 600 words on the WiP this morning, then realized after I finished where the story really wanted to go. The realization means that I need to go back and revamp most of what I’ve already written, because … Continue reading