Author Archives: Bev Vincent

We were starting to think the clouds had forgotten how to throw water from the sky. My wife and I were having supper at one of the handful of local restaurants we frequent (we only go to places that have … Continue reading →

For my birthday this year (“prime” refers to my age), my wife and I went to one of our favorite vacation/getaway spots—a rental house in Surfside Beach, TX called Land’s End. It sits behind a grass-covered dune on the Gulf … Continue reading →

Alan Parsons Project fans will recognize that line from their Vulture Culture album. That one came out when I was a grad student and before I had a car, so I had a 20+ minute bus ride from my apartment … Continue reading →

For the first time since July 2019 (when I went to NECON), I boarded an airplane. I can’t say it’s the first time I was at an airport since then because I had to make a few trips to pick … Continue reading →

In November, 2008, I was contacted out of the blue by an editor at becker&mayer! (the exclamation mark is part of their name) to see if I would be interested in writing the text for a book commissioned by Barnes … Continue reading →

Time flies when you’re having fun. (Even when you’re not, the corollary says, but that doesn’t apply to me.) I had been hoping to make The Big Announcement about my next book by now, but I’m still waiting on the … Continue reading →

So, it’s only been five weeks since my last post, so I consider that an improvement over the roughly half-year gap in 2021. Where to begin? Ok, business. I have a short story called “The Lagrange Point” in the anthology … Continue reading →

I became quite delinquent in updating my blog last year. I’m going to try to do better in 2022. I wonder how we would have reacted in March 2020 if we’d known that, two years later, we would still be … Continue reading →

My sorriest list for 2021 is the one for the books I’ve read. I only managed to read 29 thus far (although I do hope to get one or two more in before the end of the year. A lot … Continue reading →

The last movie I saw in a theater was 1917 in January 2020, and I don’t expect that to change soon. We are perfectly content to enjoy new movies as they become available on streaming platforms. I know a lot … Continue reading →