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The Stand hits Facebook

Posted: June 1, 2010, 21:01
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Mike Perkins has started a page on Facebook dedicated to Marvel's adaptation of The Stand - appropriately titled Marvel's The Stand. He'll be posting artwork and release info up there - and if any one has any questions about the series that'd be the place to ask them.

Stephen King movieposters from Hell?

Posted: May 31, 2010, 11:57
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Today in the fun department

In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film-distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven. Here are posters for three King movies…

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All these posters are from a book called Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghana and if someone should happen to have a copy that they want to part with, please let me know.

Haven location

Posted: May 28, 2010, 00:28
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Emily Rose posted this photo from where she was filming Haven yesterday.


Haven to premier on SDCC?

Posted: May 27, 2010, 10:37
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Jose Molina wrote the following on his Twitter yesterday...

I heard a rumor that #Haven would be premiering a new episode at SDCC on Friday.

So, those of you that attend. Keep you eyes open and please let me know how it was.

Thanks to j.guerineau

New contest live.

Posted: May 24, 2010, 00:54
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New contest now live on the site. Enter by link to right.

New interview with Stephen King

Posted: May 20, 2010, 22:10
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FearNet did a short interview with King yesterday when he received the literary award from the Los Angeles Library Foundation. Check it out here. In the interview King is asked about about Haven, the sequel to The Shining and a new Dark Tower book.

Here is a report about the event by Larry Fire.

Haven: Book vs TV series

Posted: May 20, 2010, 09:08
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Sam Ernst (writer for Haven) wrote about the series on his Twitter page. He said King read the supernatural storyline and the mythology they added and emailed them: "sounds like a blast!".

He also commented on how well the series will follow the book like this: “We basically absorbed the whole book and then added a supernatural storyline and back story for the characters.”

Check Sam’s Twitter here

Me being interviewed

Posted: May 19, 2010, 23:34
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Here is the interview Herbert West did with me on Twitter for those of you that missed it.

More Haven promo

Posted: May 19, 2010, 14:10
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Here is a bigger version of the first promoposter (click on it) and also a second.

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Thanks to @Jmrenaudie

Haven premiers July 9

Posted: May 19, 2010, 11:44
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Haven premiers on SyFy July 9 at 9/10c. Here is also a promoposter.

Thanks to @Jmrenaudie

King gets a Literary Award

Posted: May 19, 2010, 00:33
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 19th, the 15th Annual Los Angeles Public Library Awards Dinner will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.

The Library Foundation of Los Angeles hosts the Library Awards Dinner each spring to help augment critical funding. The proceeds of the 2010 Awards Dinner will help the Los Angeles Public Library provide reading enrichment and literacy programs and related books and materials, educational and cultural activities for all ages, and public access to the latest electronic information resources.

During the dinner, Stephen King will be awarded The Literary Award for his tremendous contribution to literature.

Thanks to Larry Fire

Me being interviewed on Twitter

Posted: May 15, 2010, 21:30
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For those of you that are on Twitter, check out me being interviewed by Herbert West on Lilja’s Library’s Twitter page. This interview is being done in Twitter format and since you can only use 140 letters in each post each question and answer is quite short and they appear irregularly on the site. Still though, it should be an interesting way to do an interview.

2nd printing cover

Posted: May 11, 2010, 23:28
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Click for a larger imageHere is the cover for the 2nd printing of issue #1 of American Vampire.
Thanks to Herbert West

Details of Full Dark, No Stars

Posted: May 11, 2010, 21:42
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The moderator of King's board sheed some light over the lengt of the stories in Full Dark, No Stars. Here is a list of the number of manuscript pages each story has. Remember though that this is manuscript pages and the page length in the finished book will not be the same but the relative size will remain the same.

1922: 96 manuscript pages
A Good Marriage: 63 manuscript pages
Big Driver: 82 manuscript pages
Fair Extension: 25 manuscript pages

And there will be an Afterword in the book.

King to write about his Anarchy shoot

Posted: May 11, 2010, 12:00
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According this post on King's message board we'll hear everything about about his participation in the TV series Sons of Anarchy:

Following up on the report by ew.com that Steve will be doing a cameo for the FX series, Sons of Anarchy, he has asked me to let you know that he will give you a full report of his adventures. He will be filming his part later this month in California.

Description of Full Dark, No Stars

Posted: May 11, 2010, 11:03
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Here is the description of Full Dark, No Stars from Amazon.co.uk:

'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'.

Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

Thanks to Bev Vincent.

The Talisman preview is not...

Posted: May 7, 2010, 11:30
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CORRECTION:

The Talisman preview is not for the next arc. It's a preview of the first arc, The Roads of Trials, in hardcover.

Thanks to Stormsga

King on Sons of Anarchy

Posted: May 7, 2010, 08:38
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Entertainment Weekly reports that King will make a cameo on Sons of Anarchy:

Stephen King will make a special appearance on Sons of Anarchy when the biker drama returns for a third season on FX this September. King, who is a columnist for Entertainment Weekly, will play a quiet loner who appears in Gemma’s (Katey Sagal) time of need. The producers learned that King was a fan of the drama, so they reached out to the author for a possible cameo. King will appear in the third episode.

Read more here.

Thanks to Louis Sytsma

Blockade Billy on audio

Posted: May 6, 2010, 19:06
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The audio edition of Blockade Billy arrived today. Here is what it looks like.

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Follow Lilja's Library the way you want!

Posted: May 5, 2010, 23:57
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Facebook was a success. So far over 740 of you are following Lilja’s Library’s facebook group.
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The new mailing list was a success. In just 2 days over 200 of you have subscribed to it.
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Today Lilja’s Library hits Twitter!
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This means you can either visit the site, follow what’s happening on facebook, by mail updates or on Twitter. Hopefully this gives each and every one of you a way to follow my updates on the site that you feel comfortable with. If so, please spread the word and wither way let me know your thoughts on this.

Listen to Blockade Billy

Posted: May 5, 2010, 23:24
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Here is the official promo page for the audio edition of Blockade Billy where you can hear an excerpt.

Audio clip with King

Posted: May 5, 2010, 16:04
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Here is an audio clip with King:

Today on Word of Mouth, Virginia's conversation with Stephen King, the "master of horror" and author of over 50 novels, including his most recent work, Under the Dome. He visited The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH, for the "Writers on a New England Stage" series. He reads from his newest work and talks about his books, film adaptations, and his career.

Thanks to Herbert West