Paperback cover for Song of Susannah
Posted: January 17, 2006, 20:56
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To the right is also a first look at the paperback cover for Song of Susannah.To the right is also a first look at the paperback cover for Song of Susannah.NEWS -
To the right is also a first look at the paperback cover for Song of Susannah.Lisey's in King's handwriting
Posted: January 17, 2006, 20:55
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Here is an interesting picture from the latest Scribner catalog.
No Sword in the Darkness online
Posted: January 17, 2006, 20:54
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The first part of 'Sword in the Darkness' which was online this past Saturday appeared in error and has now been removed from the newspaper's website. The second part of the excerpt from the upcoming book, 'Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished' will appear only in the hard copy newspaper and not online.'
Full cover of UK Cell
Posted: January 16, 2006, 18:45
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I got a copy of the UK edition of Cell today and here is the full UK cover.
Just Askin'
Posted: January 16, 2006, 18:43
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King's first column for 2006 is now out. It's called Just Askin' and you can read it here.Thanks to Paul Poroshin.
Richard Thomas in Autopsy Room Four
Posted: January 16, 2006, 18:42
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Thanks to MG.
Sword in the Darkness online
Posted: January 14, 2006, 18:40
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Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Stephen King podcast
Posted: January 12, 2006, 18:38
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Both the book and audio is released on January 24th and at the back of the book you can find an excerpt from King's next book Lisey's Story that is due out in October.
You can pre order your copy of Cell here:
US hardback
US audio CD
US audio Cassette
UK hardback
UK audio CD
Do King use American Express?
Posted: January 12, 2006, 18:37
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Thanks to Brian Freeman.
King in France
Posted: January 12, 2006, 18:36
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Thanks to Stephen King Lille board.
New book
Posted: January 11, 2006, 18:35
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Lisey in UK Cell as well
Posted: January 11, 2006, 18:34
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The Dark Tower 7 in Poland
Posted: January 11, 2006, 18:32
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The Dark Tower 7 is being released in Poland and to the right you can see the cover.Desperation photos
Posted: January 10, 2006, 00:39
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The images are (from left to right, up and down) Annabeth Gish with some KNB EFX-created corpses, Charles Durning sharing a scene with a real live cougar, Kelly Overton and Steven Weber fighting a vicious bird and Garris himself with Ron Perlman, who plays the nasty Collie Entragian.
Thanks to Mike Cahill.
Australian edition of Stephen King Uncollected, unpublished
Posted: January 10, 2006, 00:37
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An Australian edition of Stephen King Uncollected, unpublished is being released. More info can be found here.Thanks to Ben Codling.
Richard Thomas to star in Autopsy Room Four
Posted: January 10, 2006, 00:36
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Thanks to MG.
I Know What You Need in the Netherlands
Posted: January 10, 2006, 00:35
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Thanks to Stephen King Short Movies.
Stephen's Picks
Posted: January 10, 2006, 00:34
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* Stephen is reading Dispatch by Bentley Little
* He is also reading A Green Desire by Anton Myrer
* He is listening to Mistakes Were Made by Diesel Doug and the Long Haul Truckers
* In theaters, Stephen saw Hostile (Very good)
* In theaters, Stephen also saw Wolf Creek (good)
And the winner is...
Posted: January 6, 2006, 00:33
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Question 1: This Stephen King classic goes into the theme of country folk vs. city folk. Which one is it?
Answer 1: Cujo
Question 2: Fill in the blank.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... _________was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun!"
Answer 2: The Stand
Question 3: Fill in the blank: "In 1989, King signed a deal with Viking that netted him _____million for four books, a new record."
Answer 3: $35
And the lucky winner is Jeremy Thomason from the US. If you didn't win, don't be too sad. A new contest will start soon, very soon!
Airdate for Desperation set
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:32
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Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Author photo in color
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:30
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Here is the author photo of King in color.Contest over
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:29
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Latest on Ghost Brothers
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:27
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Thanks to Rocky Wood and Ed Yarb.
Background to Cell
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:25
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King told a story about leaving a New York hotel to get a coffee one morning about six years ago. "A lady under the canopy was on her cell phone and the doorman was getting someone a cab. I thought, what if she got this message on her cell phone that she could not deny and she had to attack everyone she saw - and she started with the doorman, she ripped his throat out."
Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Lisey's Story excerpt
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:23
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The Scribner edition of Cell contains a sneak peak at Lisey's Story. The first twelve pages of the book are presented in King's own handwriting. The excerpt is not the same as what we've previously seen in "Lisey and the Madman." The opening chapter is called "Lisey and Amanda (Everything the Same)" and deals with Lisey Landon two years after the death of her famous writer husband Scott. She's finally going through his writing office, trying to decide what to do about his unpublished works. Amanda is her older sister, and there seems to be tension between the two. My feeling is that this book will be in the Bag of Bones vein.
Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Glenn Chadbourne interview
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:21
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Thanks to Rocky Wood.
Last chance for contest
Posted: January 5, 2006, 00:20
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Lisey in Cell
Posted: January 3, 2006, 00:44
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Cell contains the first 12 pages of Lisey's Story in King's own hand. This excerpt is not the same as Lisey and the Madman and has to do with Lisey having to deal with her late husband's literary remains.
Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Stephen King helps accident victims
Posted: January 3, 2006, 00:43
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Thanks to Ed Yarb.
Spanish news
Posted: January 3, 2006, 00:41
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Thanks to Ari.
Happy New 2006
Posted: January 2, 2006, 00:38
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Welcome to 2006 and Lilja's Library's 10th year online. Yes, Lilja's Library has been online for 10 year!During all these 10 years you have all been very supportive. When there have been something you have liked, you have let me know,
when there was something wrong, you let me know that too (both is equally important). When I asked you to donate to the site, you did! In short, you have all been very supportive and because of this Lilja's Library is now one of the biggest sites about King online...and we are growing all the time.
During all of 2006 I will celebrate Lilja's Library's 10 years online. 2006 will be the most exciting year in the history of Lilja's Library, I can tell you that right now. To kick it all of, this years first contest starts today. The prize this time is an ARC of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished. So, don't waste any time, enter right away!
And again, thanks for all your support during these 10 years. I hope you'll be with me during 2006...it'll be a year to remember!
No mass-market Secretary of Dreams
Posted: December 29, 2005, 00:00
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I checked with Cemetery Dance, and although a mass-market edition has been discussed for the future, nothing is currently in the works and no other editions will be appear until after the hardcover...
Full US cover for Cell
Posted: December 28, 2005, 23:43
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Above you can see the full cover of the US edition. It's also reported that the US edition has the first chapter of Lisey's Story in King's own handwriting. I haven't gotten this confirmed yet but it seams that it might be different one then the one released with the title Lisey and the Madman. I'll let you know as soon as I hear more...
UK cover for Cell
Posted: December 28, 2005, 23:42
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About the UK cover for Cell;Well I finally saw a picture of the cover art for the UK edition of "Cell" and I must say - bleh! I’ve picked up the UK editions of some of SK’s more recent works (Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis) primarily because I liked the cover artwork better compared to the US versions. Here though - I think the US covert art wins hands down - the UK cover art is too B-movie for me, especially with the added tag line on the cover: "is your number up?" Just my two cents.
Response from Moderator It’s not the final cover yet as we’ve had more artwork sent for Stephen’s approval.
Letter to the editor of NY Times
Posted: December 28, 2005, 00:00
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From the NY Times
Published: December 25, 2005
Man in Love
To the Editor:
The problem with Francine Prose's review of "D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider" (Dec. 4) isn't that she came to Lawrence through a book ("Lady Chatterley's Lover") she glommed from her Dad's sock drawer, or that she seems not to have renewed her acquaintance with Lawrence's work since her undergraduate days; the problem is her not uncommon assumption that she may be better able to understand a great writer by reading about him than by reading him.
A critical examination of Lawrence's work makes it possible to understand that by saying explicitly what Thomas Hardy only implied in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and "Jude the Obscure" - that marriage is the heart of modern society, and sex is the heart of marriage - Lawrence novels such as "The Rainbow" (published long before "Lady Chatterley") were almost certain to be suppressed. But that is a dry bone indeed, and antithetical to everything for which Lawrence lived. It was feeling he cared for, and the heart at which he aimed, not the loins that attracted Prose's attention as a teenager.
I suspect Lawrence would have clutched his head at the idea of anyone turning to biography as a way of finding "new ways of understanding" his work. Prose might have done better to glance at one of Lawrence's poems - also titled "The Rainbow," and probably not coincidentally. It closes with these radiant lines:
But the one thing that is bow-legged
and can't put its feet together
is the rainbow.
Because one foot is the heart of a man
and the other is the heart of a woman.
And these two, as you know,
never meet.
Save they leap
high -
Oh hearts, leap high!
- they touch in mid-heaven like an acrobat
and make a rainbow.
The writer's rainbow is always found in his work, and students seeking gold would thus do well to start there.
STEPHEN KING
Bangor, Me.
Casting for Crouch End
Posted: December 22, 2005, 13:01
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Thanks to MG.
Dollar Babies and Book Report
Posted: December 21, 2005, 00:00
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James Renner's Dollar Baby All That You Love Will Be Carried Away is now available for download.
The Man in the Black Suit is also available for download.
James Cochrane is re-editing his Dollar Baby Here There Be Tygers and it will be finished in may 2006 and available for download.
Also, a new column is out. It's called The Pop of King - Book Report and you can read it here.
New author photo
Posted: December 20, 2005, 15:13
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Here is the author photo from Cell.UK cover for Cell
Posted: December 16, 2005, 00:13
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Here is the cover for the UK edition of Cell.Description of Cell from Cemetery Dance
Posted: December 15, 2005, 00:11
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone.
What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on.
CELL is classic Stephen King, a story of gory horror and white-knuckling suspense that makes the unimaginable entirely plausible and totally fascinating.
The news about Secretary of Dreams is out.
Posted: December 14, 2005, 13:16
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And when you order, don't forget to mention Lilja's Library in the COMMENTS section of the checkout form. If you do, you'll automatically be entered into a random drawing for a FREE Advanced Readers Copy of The Secretary of Dreams!
Cemetery Dance has reserved FIVE review copies for Lilja's Library visitors, which means five of you will be among the first people in the world to experience The Secretary of Dreams! But this contest will only run for ONE WEEK from today so you'll want to get your order in fast so you don't miss out!
(For those who don't know, review copies are printed in trade paperback form exclusively for reviewers and they ship BEFORE the book is actually published! This is so the reviews can be written before a book's publication date.)
If you forget to mention this website on your order form, you will NOT be entered into the drawing! Unfortunately, due to the number of orders they'll be processing, Cemetery Dance cannot add the contest entry notation to your order after it is placed. You must mention this website in the COMMENTS section when you checkout. Sorry, no exceptions.
(This offer is also being made to a few other groups so if you see it somewhere else, make sure to note the name of that website! Every participating website is getting FIVE review copies for their visitors, which means every site you mention in the COMMENTS section when you place your order will increase your odds of winning! Odds of winning will depend on the number of qualifying entries for each website. Winners will be selected by Cemetery Dance sometime between the end of the contest and when the review copies are printed. Winners will be notified by email. All decisions of Cemetery Dance Publications are final.)
So, don't waste any time, head over to The Secretary of Dreams and place your order NOW!!!.
Dutch cover for Cell
Posted: December 13, 2005, 00:09
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Here is the cover for the Dutch edition of Cell. The book is out in March 2006.Thanks to Stephen King Fanclub Nederland.
A Very Dead Zone Christmas - review
Posted: December 11, 2005, 00:00
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Today you can check out my review for The Dead Zone - A Very Dead Zone Christmas.There is now a new column by online King called Scene It, get it
here.
Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Here is a review for The Mangler Reborn... and it's not a positive one...
Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Description of Cell from Hodder & Stoughton
Posted: December 9, 2005, 00:08
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'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.' The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane.
A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone…
Info about Lisey's Story
Posted: December 8, 2005, 23:41
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On October 24, 2006 we publish LISEY'S STORY. Possibly King's most ambitious and accomplished book ever, it's a profoundly moving and disturbing novel about a widow coping with the loss of her writer husband. It's a grand, ambitious and layered book, with unrelenting emotional power. It's a book for the ages - exploring the dark secrets of the ones we love, and the very wellsprings of creativity.
Info about Cell
Posted: December 8, 2005, 00:01
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On January 24, 2006 we publish CELL. A guilty pleasure in the tradition of Carrie, Salem's Lot and The Shining, CELL asks what happens when cell phones become transmitters of a signal that drive people instantly mad and violent. King's plot gallops as a few phoneless heroes try to escape the mayhem everywhere and save the world.
Stephen King does not have a cell phone.
German cover for Cell
Posted: December 7, 2005, 23:56
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Here is the German cover for Cell. King's involvement in The Dark Tower comic
Posted: December 7, 2005, 22:17
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King is the Executive Editor and Creative Director of Marvel's much-awaited Dark Tower comic book series and graphic fiction collections," said Diamond's press release. "King is directly involved in the creative aspects of this project, supervising all editorial and visual content. Robin Furth, author of Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower: A Concordance,' is outlining the 'Dark Tower' comic book series, providing scene-by-scene plotting, and maintaining the continuity and consistency of each story arc."
While the above implies heavy editorial involvement, many have taken note of the curious absence of King's credit as "writer" or even "scripter," as he is merely mentioned as being involved in editorial capacities. Marvel Comics has made no comment since the press release, but stay tuned to CBR News for more on this developing story.
Thanks to Bev Vincent.
Cell audio covers and Bag of Bones review
Posted: December 6, 2005, 00:00
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Here are the covers for the audio editions of Cell. You can pre-order them here:US hardcover
CD
Cassette
UK hardcover
You can also check out my review of Bag of Bones on CD.
Info about Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Posted: December 5, 2005, 13:00
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- Jeff Beal (HBO's "Rome" and "Carnivale") will be composing music for ALL eight episodes.
- Rotating cinematographers on all eight are John Stokes ("Journey to the Center of the Earth") -even episodes and Benn Nott ("Salem's Lot") - odd episodes.
- Visual effects (CGI) will be done by Digital Pictures in Australia for all episodes except Battleground which will be done by Star Gate Films in Los Angeles.
Thanks to MG
