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
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Falling feels like flying, for a little while
It was supposed to rain buckets today, but it turned out to be very nice. I have the office window open as I work, and the outside world is full of the sounds of lawn mowers and leaf blowers in their … Continue reading
There’s an app for that
Got back to my prep work on the novel in progress this morning after a 1-day hiatus. I’m thinking about charting the whole thing out on a big sheet of paper on my wall. Only problem is–my office doesn’t have … Continue reading
Em Are Eye
I just received my contributor copy of Close Encounter of the Urban Kind, edited by Jennifer Brozek. You should check it out if you get a chance — it’s about urban legends that actually have alien explanations. My tale is … Continue reading
Wildlife
I’m all set for my radio interview with KLVT on Monday morning. Alas, it does not appear that the station streams on the internet. My outlining and plotting proceed apace on the novel. I finished summarizing the plot of the … Continue reading
Outlining
On Saturday, my latest Storytellers Unplugged essay went live: The Agent Panel. It’s a recap of a panel at the Houston Writers Guild conference I attended a week or so ago. I finished and submitted the story I’ve been working … Continue reading
Looking for an agent?
Today on Storytellers Unplugged: The Agent Panel.
This is not a Gaiman
Last year I read a book called This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams. In the opening scenes, a puppetmaster who has been running a hugely successful ARG finds herself trapped in Indonesia after the country’s currency collapses and … Continue reading
I Pity the Fool
Made another editing pass through the new short story this morning, and ended up right at about 2900 words at the end. Then I posted the opening paragraph on Tom Piccirilli’s Yay or Nay Thursday thread on Facebook and immediately … Continue reading
Big Bang Boom
It’s amazing how many extraneous words end up in the first draft of my stories. The one I finished yesterday came in at 3250 words, well over the upper limit for the market of 3000. Given that I wanted to … Continue reading
Truth or Dare
All it takes is a few minutes on the phone with someone from Eastern Canada to make me feel nostalgic for that part of the world. I had to call a company in Halifax today–the accent of the person on … Continue reading