The Stephen King Thread - Part 2

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King Is 3rd Highest Paid Author 2018
Posted: December 17, 2018, 08:52:27
Forbes lists top ten highest-paid authors of 2018:

1. James Patterson ($86 million)
2. J.K. Rowling ($54 million)
3. Stephen King [$27 million)
4. John Grisham ($21 million)
5. Jeff Kinney (18,.5 million)
5. Dan Brown ($18.5 million)
7. Michael Wolff ($13 million)
8. Danielle Steel ($12 million)
8. Nora Roberts ($12 million)
10. Rick riordan ($10.5 million)
10. E-L. James ($10.5 million)



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He earns it by writing high quality books.

 

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New Hill Collection Will Contain Collaborations
Posted: January 31, 2019, 10:02:38
Section: Film » In The Tall Grass
Joe Hill will release a new short story collection entitled Full Throttle in the fall (October 29). The book will be 384 pages and feature eleven short stories. Some of them new and some previously published elsewhere.

The book will include Hill’s two collaborations with his father Stephen King; Full Throttle and In The Tall Grass. In The Tall Grass has been filmed and will probably premiere later this year while Full Throttle was reported to be getting a big-screen treatment but nothing else has surfaced about that since it was first reported.

 

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The Institute: King's Next Book
Posted: January 31, 2019, 16:07:29
Section: Book » The Institute
StephenKing.com announces next King book:

The Institute
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
First Edition Release Date: September 10, 2019

From the Flap:

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win



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Good news from them both.

 

[childeroland]

King's got demonic energy. And this sounds really good.

 

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Check out an exclusive preview of Stephen King's next novel, 'The Institute'

 

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Cover & Pagecount For The Institute
Posted: February 1, 2019, 18:38:09
Section: Book » The Institute
Here is the cover for The Institute. both King’s site and Amazon says it’ll be 576 pages.

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UK Cover For The Institute
Posted: February 1, 2019, 18:53:59
Section: Book » The Institute
Here is the UK cover for The Institute and Hodder & Stoughton’s plot description.

There’s Only One Way Out…

Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He’s just a regular 12-year-old, except he’s not just smart, he’s super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use…

Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local Sheriff. He’s basically just walking the beat. But he’s about to take on the biggest case of his career.

Back in the Institute’s downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise ‘just another day in paradise’, Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape.

But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments – even the infamous Mrs Sigsby – suspect.

Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, The Institute is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.

The Institute will be released in hardback, export trade paperback, ebook and audio on 10 September 2019.

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[Sawyer]

Going after kids with powers, eh? Perhaps "The Institute" is the new version of "The Shop".

 

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King Writing About Holly
Posted: February 5, 2019, 19:12:20
From King’s twitter today.

 

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Gwendy's Button Box Gets A Sequel
Posted: May 1, 2019, 17:26:55
Section: Book » Gwendy’s Button Box
Gwendy's Button Box gets a sequel written by Richard Chizmar. Order your copy here

Gwendy's Magic Feather
Richard Chizmar

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out to bring them home alive.

In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she was entrusted—or some might say cursed—with the extraordinary button box by Richard Farris, the mysterious stranger in the black suit. The seductive and powerful box offered Gwendy small gifts in exchange for its care and feeding until Farris eventually returned, promising
Gwendy she'd never see the box again.

One day, though, the button box shows up without warning-and without Richard Farris to explain why, or what she's supposed to do with it. The mysterious reappearance of the box, along with the troubling disappearances in Castle Rock, leads Gwendy home again...where she just might be able to help rescue the missing girls and stop a madman before he does something ghastly.

From New York Times bestseller Richard Chizmar comes Gwendy's Magic Feather, a breathtaking novel that asks whether our lives are controlled by fate or the choices we make-and what price we might have to pay for those choices when we reach for the things we most desire. Prepare to return again to Stephen King's Castle Rock, the sleepy little town built on a bedrock of deep, dark secrets, which is about to awaken from its quiet slumber once more.

Trade hardcover Edition
Publisher: Cemetery Dance
Pub Date: November 19, 2019
Length: 328 pages

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Nice. I liked the first one quite a bit.

 

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King Writing About Holly
Posted: May 1, 2019, 17:40:23
In this interview with EW Richard Chizmar talks about Gwendy's Magic Feather. One question hinted on what King himself is working on...

But he didn’t want to write it himself?
He said, “I’m going to be spending the foreseeable future with Holly Gibney [a character in his Mr. Mercedes novels and The Outsider who is a major character in his newest book], but you should write it.”



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King's 2020 Book; If You Bleed
Posted: May 13, 2019, 08:58:33
Section: Book » If You Bleed
At the Workplay festival King didn't only play with his band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, he also announced during a talk with Benjamin Percy that his next book will be called If You Bleed. He also revealed that Holly Gibney will be the main character in the book. It's being released in 2020.

 

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More Info About If You Bleed
Posted: May 14, 2019, 08:33:52
Some additional information has appeared on the King 2020 book, If you bleed . Some sources say King said the title was If it bleeds from the words "If it bleeds it". I guess we have to wait and see what the right title is.

I also hear that the king said that the story is about a news anchor / journalist who is also a kind of vampire feed on human suffering when he chases his stories.

As always when many people hear the same thing, they will perceive it differently and therefore the information is a little fuzzy. Hopefully we will soon have more accurate info.

Oh, and I also heard that the king said he was thinking of a sequel to Salem's Lot .

 

[Sawyer]

 

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King About Trump, The Institute & Books To Come...
Posted: September 2, 2019, 08:29:45
Sections: Book » The Institute, Book » If It Bleeds
Here i s an interview with King that Rolling Stone did about Trump, The Institute and books to come...

King’s next book, If It Bleeds, is due out sometime in 2020. It’s a continuation of his ongoing Holly Gibney detective series. “I have to do a polish on that,” he says. “But it’s basically done.” He’s already jamming away on the one after that (though he’s not ready to divulge any details) and the sudden surge of interest in his work has been a great motivator to keep going. “I’m 71 years old,” he says, “and a lot of people my age are forgotten and I’ve had this late season burst of success. It’s very gratifying.”



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Hee hee.

 

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An Evening with Joe Hill & Stephen King
Posted: September 7, 2019, 00:57:34
Section: Book » The Institute
Porter Square Books wil bring you a very special event on October 10: an evening with Joe Hill and Stephen King!

They will be hosting Joe Hill and Stephen King at Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Somerville MA on Thursday, October 10th, 2019, at 7pm, and the two authors will sit down together to discuss their respective new books, Full Throttle and The Institute.

Tickets will go on sale on Friday, September 13th at 12:00 pm noon ET, and there are a few purchasing options. Head over to their website for more info.

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Review of The Institute:

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An old article King wrote about the accident in 1999. It's quite scary when you realize how close it was that he was killed that day:

Personal History by Stephen King: On Impact

 

[Sawyer]

Looked at the Amazon entry page and I guess If It Bleeds will be a novella collection. Didn't know that.

 

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If It Bleeds; Collection of 4 Stories Out May 5th, 2020
Posted: October 3, 2019, 08:33:37
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
King’s next book If It Bleeds is a collection of four stories. They are:

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
The Life of Chuck
Rat
If It Bleeds

The book will be released on May 5th, 2020 and a place holder cover have been released (this is not the final cover).


If It Bleeds
Release Date: May 5th, 2020

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas—Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat and the title story If It Bleeds — each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.

The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). Like Four Past Midnight, Different Seasons, and most recently Full Dark, No Stars, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.

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If It Bleeds Listed To Be 576 Pages
Posted: October 3, 2019, 16:23:55
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
If it Bleeds is listed to be 576 pages long over at Amazon and you can now pre-order it here



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UK Cover For If It Bleeds
Posted: October 3, 2019, 16:27:40
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
Here is the cover for the UK edition of If it Bleedes.

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