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By Bev Vincent, on January 17th, 2012
I’m on a deadline and couldn’t think of anything to write about this month, so I dredged up an oldie but a goody from 2005 that is still as pertinent to me today as it was back then. I updated a few of the details but the sentiment is the same.
When people who’ve known me [...]
By David Niall Wilson, on December 31st, 2011
So, here we are sliding into another New Year. I’m in my armchair, watching silly TV with Trish and two of the kids, three other kids spread far and wide with friends and family…and thinking about saying something profound, or moving – anything to brighten that first day of 2012 for someone reading this post. [...]
By Bev Vincent, on December 17th, 2011
At every convention I’ve attended, there’s a table full of promotional items. These usually consist of postcards or bookmarks, but sometimes there are fliers or little gadgets intended to entice people into purchasing a product. Usually a book, in my experience. Everyone is clamoring for everyone else’s attention, and if you don’t have the weight [...]
By Gerard Houarner, on November 4th, 2011
As writers, we think and talk a lot about plot and characters, and how they form the structure of our stories.
In the past, I’ve talked about trying to approach writing from different perspectives or a different kind of “lens.” Change the camera lens and the view of the world changes a bit. (I know, stand [...]
By Bev Vincent, on October 17th, 2011
I recently agreed to be interviewed by a college undergrad for one of her classes. Their assignment was to interview someone working in a career that interested them. Since that interview won’t see the light of day outside of the student’s class, I thought I would post it here in lieu of my usual blatherings.
What [...]
By Bev Vincent, on September 17th, 2011
If you’ve ever read an author’s blog for any length of time, or followed his or her Facebook feed, you will no doubt be familiar with the tradition of posting sporadic or daily word counts. It is, perhaps, the only metric that writers have available to measure our productivity.
My favorite anecdote comes via Stephen King [...]
By Bev Vincent, on August 17th, 2011
NECon has come and gone for another year. It was a mix of the old and the new. Old faces and new. Familiar activities and new ones. Similar programming topics and contemporary ones. One thing I noticed with most of the panels—and I’ve observed this at other conventions as well—is that, for the most part, [...]
By Richard Dansky, on July 27th, 2011
1-Fail To Know Or Care Who’s Going To Be There
Complete and utter unfamiliarity with the folks you might be talking with and their work is always going to go over well. If someone’s a guest – or especially a Guest of Honor – it’s probably for a reason, and “they’re local and they know someone [...]
By Bev Vincent, on July 17th, 2011
I’ve been going to writing conventions for a decade. I attended one local writers guild convention in the late 1990s (Joe R. Lansdale was a guest, which was a big draw). Then I resumed my long-fallow interest in writing and I wanted to start networking with other writers. My first big convention was the World [...]
By Bev Vincent, on May 17th, 2011
I’ve never been in the position of having to read through a slush pile to pick out publication worthy short stories. However, as one of the judges of a short fiction contest, I feel like I’ve been through a similar experience. The contest had on the order of 150 submissions. In the first round, we [...]
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