Lilja interviews King


Posted: February 25, 2008, 00:27:26 | Section: General news » Lilja interviews King

All three parts of my interview with King is now online.

PART 1 – Duma Key and a really long new book

PART 2 – Just Past Sunset, The Dark Tower and The Stand

PART 3 – The Gingerbread Girl, The Mist and The Talisman 3

Enjoy! / Lilja

Stephen King: My Real Top 20 Songs


Posted: May 8, 2008, 15:49:57 | Section: »

Check out Stephen King's real top 20 songs here.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!


Posted: May 8, 2008, 00:34:51 | Section: »

Now you can listen to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! online. Here's the links

Show

Poscast

Thanks to Jeff Wood

Win a signed Gingerbread Girl


Posted: May 8, 2008, 00:32:28 | Section: »

Simon & Schuster are having a contest where you can win a signed copy of The Gingerbread Girl, don't miss that:

Enter for a chance to win a signed copy of Stephen King's thrilling novella The Gingerbread Girl!

Originally published in Esquire magazine The Gingerbread Girl is available exclusively as an audiobook on CD and for download.

Narrated to perfection by Academy Award nominee Mare Winningham, The Gingerbread Girl follows the story of Em, who after suffering a devastating loss, starts running. Soon Em runs from her husband and her home all the way to the airport. Looking for solace, Em's running takes her to the Florida Gulf where she settles into the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key. Once there Em keeps up her running until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. Will Em be next?

Listen to The Gingerbread Girl - available exclusively on CD and for download - and find out!

Simon & Schuster Audio would like to give you a chance to win one of 5 signed audiobook copies of The Gingerbread Girl.

Simply CLICK HERE

My review of issue #3


Posted: May 7, 2008, 00:00:32 | Section: Book » The Dark Tower Comic

Here is my review of issue #3 of The Long Road Home.

See C-SPAN2


Posted: May 6, 2008, 13:56:49 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

If you didn’t catch the C-SPAN airing of A writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King you can now look at it (or buy it on DVD) here.

Thanks to Bev Vincent

Ghost Brothers postponed


Posted: May 6, 2008, 10:45:14 | Section: General news » The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County

King-Mellencamp musical postponed in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) — A musical by John Mellencamp and Stephen King, scheduled to be produced next season in Atlanta, has been postponed, the Alliance Theatre announced Monday.
The Alliance announced in February that "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," with music by Mellencamp and a book by horror master King, would open in April 2009, with the object of preparing it for a Broadway run.

The Alliance notified subscribers on Monday that the project has been delayed because of "unanticipated scheduling problems which could not be resolved in time for the production."

Members of the creative team "realized the script would not be ready by spring 2009," the statement said.

In the February announcement, the Alliance described the play as "a sultry Southern gothic mystery with a blues-tinged, guitar-driven score." Peter Askin was announced as the director.
The story is set in the fictional town of Lake Belle Reve, Miss., and centers on the deaths in 1957 of two brothers and a young girl and the legend that grows out of the tragedy.

The Alliance said it now hopes to produce the show during its 2009-2010 season.

On the Net: Alliance Theatre.

Thanks to Rocky Wood

New book about King's work out now!


Posted: May 6, 2008, 08:42:04 | Section: »

Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author
Weighing in at over 560 pages, Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author is by far the most comprehensive Stephen King Bibliography ever produced, with 958 separate entries, each with a short description and full source data, from publication information right down to page numbers!

Plus TWO FREE Bonus UPDATE Chapbooks With 96 Pages of Additional Material!

Read more about the book Here.

More Under the Dome


Posted: May 5, 2008, 16:25:20 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

Here are more info about Under the Dome:

According to King at his reading on Book TV on C-SPAN 2 (taped back on the same day as the 3 Kings event), the long novel he's working on is... Under the Dome!

He said something along the lines of "I tried to write this 25 years ago...The idea stuck with me..." He again called it a very long novel. He then read the first few pages, about a woman getting a flying lesson and an old woodchuck walking along a road. The reading will be aired again on Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 AM if anyone is interested.

Here is what Rocky Wood wrote in SKUU about this manuscript:

The Cannibals is a novel of about 450 pages, rewritten in July to December 1981. Douglas Winter quotes King as saying that after writing It: "I worked on a book called The Cannibals ­ I had started it five years before, but it was called Under the Dome then. It didn' get finished either time."

The revision was written during the filming of Creepshow: I've gotten about four-hundred-and-fifty pages done and it is all about these people who are trapped in an apartment building. Worst thing I could think of. And I thought, wouldn't it be funny if they all ended up eating each other? It's very, very bizarre because it's all on one note. And who knows whether it will be published or not.'

Thanks to Brian Freeman

Under the Dome


Posted: May 5, 2008, 10:32:55 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

In my interview with King earlier this year he talked about “a really long book” and this Sunday during the CSPAN2 airing of Writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King he revealed more about it.

In 1983, Stephen King began a book first titled “The Cannibals” which was also known as “Under the Dome”. This book remained unpublished and unfinished. According to Stephen King who appeared on CSPAN2 this evening on the program, “A writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King”, the book has come back to life. He read an excerpt from what promises to be a very long novel entitled “Under the Dome”. No publishing date was discussed. It looks like Stephen King is digging into his trunk of long abandoned novels and updating them like he did with Blaze. The short passage that King read dealt with the unexpected death of a small plane pilot and student. In recent interviews, Stephen King has mentioned that he is working on a very long book set in Maine. Stay posted for more updates…

Thanks to Larry Fire and Gretchen Svec

King plays a game


Posted: May 5, 2008, 10:24:28 | Section: »

Here’s a fun thing:

Author Stephen King plays a game called, "You're the Warmest, Fluffiest, Most Unthreatening Friend Ever." Three questions about nice things to ask the man who has scared us to our wits for decades.

Listen…

Thanks to Bev Vincent
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