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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Madness
This post has nothing to do with basketball. I have no interest in the sport, either at the pro or the college level. I think I’ve attended two games in my life, a Texas A&M game when I lived in … Continue reading
Musical chairs
My four-day training session ended yesterday at 4:15, so I promptly got into my car and drove back home. I’m glad my iPod was working again, as the music made the time fly by. Listening to the radio is okay, but … Continue reading
Fly Ajira — the friendly skies
Day three of training. One left to go. My butt is turning square, I think. Tonight’s Lost was interesting. After a couple of weeks of mandatory backfill, we finally get to the good stuff. Seeing Sawyer stepping up to the … Continue reading
Technology leaves us vulnerable
Day two in Austin. Information hasn’t yet started bleeding out of my ears, but any day now. Halfway through this intensive training course and I feel like I’ve learned at least a handful of extremely useful things, along with the … Continue reading
Capitol visit
I’m spending four days in Austin at a training session for our new Customer Relationship Management software. 8:30 to 5:00 pm in a classroom for four days in a row. I can’t remember the last time I spent one full … Continue reading
First draft
I received my on-signing payment for the new project yesterday. It’s always nice to get a check in this biz. The advance was split 50/50 between contract signing and final acceptance of the manuscript. None held over for “on publication,” … Continue reading
At least my car is clean
It’s a good 40 degrees colder today than it was this time yesterday, when it was in the mid-80s. A cold front came through and with it, some much needed rain. However, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so … Continue reading
A man’s House is his Castle
I finished dealing with the editorial comments on my manuscript and delivered the revised text back to the editor today. She’s traveling somewhere tomorrow and wanted to have this in hand so she could read on the fly, so to … Continue reading
At a magazine stand near you
Revealed in our May issue: The winners of the 2008 Readers Award! And the wide-ranging stories in this issue include a puzzling case of murder and “Identity Theft” for Jon Breen’s detectives Berwanger and Foley; a tongue-in-cheek snapshot of a … Continue reading
Honk
I got back from Chicago last night, glad to be home as always. I spent a few hours at the PITTCON exhibit before taking the convention shuttle back to the hotel, checking out, walking to the red line, transferring to the … Continue reading