I got an interesting press release just now. It's about a new Dollar Baby based on King's story The Boogeyman made by Irish film-maker Gerard Lough and starring Simon Fogarty and Michael Parle. And if you ask me, this photo looks very promising...
Glenn Chadbourne (who's illustrated Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King) has created an exclusive card for The Overlook Connection that is signed by me and Glenn. Overlook offers this card FREE if you buy the book from them but they only have a limited number to offer so head over to them now if you want one.
Today I'm happy to be able to finally give you the release date for my upcoming book; Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King. The release date is August 9 and that is just 53 days to go!
As you might remember I have earlier written about the four different covers for the UK paperback edition of Under the Dome. Well, today I got one of them in the mail and let me tell you, it's one thick book.
On page 34 of the latest issue there is a new column called Get Me Bruce Willis where it's suggested that Bruce Willis should be the one to fix the BP Oil Spill.
Jim Dunn (who wrote the pilot) wrote the following about Haven on his Twitter this morning:
Got Stephen King's formal approval of the pilot today! He liked it!
Here is my review of Never Sleep Again – The Elm Street Legacy. A wonderful documentary about the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Why it’s reviewed here? Well, read the review and you’ll find out.
Here's a sneaky peak at some of the artwork in the new issue of The Stand (posted on The Stand's Facebook page) - on sale 3rd June. Introducing...The Kid!
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.