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    • The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book
    • The Dark Tower Companion
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      • Playing Tag with Death: Mick Garris on Bag of Bones
      • Whatever happened to Danny Torrance?
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      • 2005
        • Who’s yo editor?
        • Stop me before I revise again
        • Lead me not into temptation
        • Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
        • Crystallization
        • The End
      • 2006
        • I Have an Idea
        • Will you read my book?
        • Death and Taxes
        • Rolling with the Punches
        • What an agent can do for you
        • I’m Glad You Asked Me That
        • What an editor can do for you
        • Storytellers . . . unplugged
        • 3000 words about the Peloponnesian War
        • Nano Redux
        • Writing on a Budget
      • 2007
        • The value of time off
        • Anatomy of a short story
        • Using My Common Senses
        • Take a trip—and never leave the farm
        • Pushing a Rope
        • Why go to conventions?
        • Are critique groups worthwhile?
        • It’s hard to tell the truth
        • For Love or Money
        • The Company We Keep: Guilt By Association
      • 2008
        • You won’t believe what happened next
        • The Days Passed, the Nights Passed
        • The sketch artist
        • Why write short stories?
        • Let me be brief
        • The Suspense is Killing Me
        • Roots
        • Publishing . . . and publishing well
        • A story’s intent
        • Tracking submissions
        • The Doldrums
        • Telling the truth for fun and profit
      • 2009
        • Too many words
        • Book packagers
        • Saying Yes
        • Copy Editors
        • Telling Stories
        • Adventures in Reading
        • Apparently I Write Like a Girl
        • Dog Days of Summer
        • What I Did On My Summer Vacation
        • Genre Bender
        • Location, Location, Location
        • Alternate Reality
      • 2010
        • Aspiring writers
        • Going for the Gold
        • The Book Launch
        • The Agent Panel
        • Lost in Translation
        • The Tangled Web We Weave
        • Gap Year(s)
        • Why digital publishing didn’t catch on 10 years ago–and why it might now.
        • How far would you go for a critique?
        • Ch-ch-ch-changes
        • Contests? No contest.
        • Write for the audience; write for yourself
      • 2011
        • Potpourri
        • A Taxing Situation
        • Writing through it
        • Rejection, rejection, rejection…acceptance! Rejection, rejection…
        • Reading Slush
        • Are you ready? Well, then, let’s begin.
        • There are cons…and then there’s NECon
        • Is Anybody Out There?
        • Words count
        • Answering questions from an aspiring writer
        • Asking questions
        • Promotional consideration
      • 2012
        • The Day Job
        • Prepare to be boarded
        • Famous people
        • Asking questions or getting answers?
        • Desperation and Impatience
        • Where did that story come from?
        • The Illustrious Man
        • Writing in my head
        • What they do and what they say
        • Once upon a time, but not happily ever after
        • Taking care of the laundry
        • Not the time to rewrite your text
      • 2013
        • We’re all doing our best
        • Social media
        • The strangest time
        • Saying no
        • Bartleby and me
        • A writer, not a seller
        • Reprint: Why go to conventions?
        • Nil Illegitimi Carborundum
        • Reading out loud
        • Maybe I Could’ve Been a Rock Star
        • Soap gets in your eyes
        • The End
    • Miscellaneous
      • A Day in the Life of Bev Vincent
      • What does it take to write a novel?
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      • Hellnotes review: A Winter Haunting
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Books

  • Flight or Fright
  • Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
  • The Dark Tower Companion
  • The Stephen King Illustrated Companion
  • The Road to the Dark Tower
  • When the Night Comes Down
  • The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book

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  • 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.

    Flight or Fright

    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

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