The Stephen King Thread - Part 2

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US Cover & Excerpt From If It Bleeds
Posted: October 3, 2019, 18:32:00
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
Here is the finished US cover for If It Bleeds. There is also an excerpt here.

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[squeekness]

I don't want to wait until next year.

 

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When Stephen King is Your Father, the World is Full of Monsters

 

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King’s Mansion To Become Writers Retreat & Archive
Posted: October 18, 2019, 12:58:44
The King family is about to move. Their iconic red mansion in Bangor will instead in the future be the home of the extensive archive of manuscripts, articles, photographs, notes, video and audio recordings and other writings from throughout King’s nearly 50-year career.

The house (and the house next door, also owned by the King family) would also become a retreat for writers, who would be allowed to stay in the house while they work on various projects. The offices of the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, their charitable nonprofit organizations would also move in.

This should not be misstaken for a museum though. The houses won’t be open to the public and you would, just like when the collection was located at The University of Maine, need permission to do research on King’s unpublished stuff as well as to stay there and write.

Bangor council vote lets Stephen and Tabitha King
move ahead with archive and writers’ retreat

The Bangor City Council on Wednesday night unanimously approved a zoning change for the two homes on West Broadway owned by Stephen and Tabitha King that will pave the way for the properties to house King’s extensive archive and serve as a writers’ retreat.

The Kings requested a zone change last month, with plans to change both their iconic red mansion and the white house next door from their former residential zoning to a type of zone that would allow a nonprofit organization.

At the meeting on Wednesday, the council approved the zone change in an 8-0 vote.

“Everything that the Kings have given this city and the area is absolutely priceless, and to see them to continue to have a tie here with the properties that are on West Broadway and not sell them them or divest themselves of those ties to Bangor is, I think, very admirable,” said Councilor Gibran Graham.

The zone change will allow the Kings to turn their red mansion with its wrought iron gate at 47 West Broadway, as well as the adjacent house the Kings own at 39 West Broadway, into a permanent home for King’s extensive archive of manuscripts, articles, photographs, notes, video and audio recordings and other writings from throughout his nearly 50-year career.

It would also include a retreat for writers, who would be allowed to stay in the house while they work on various projects, and it would house the offices for the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, their charitable nonprofit organization. The foundation offices are currently located on Outer Hammond Street in Bangor.

Councilor Laura Supica said she believed the new archive and retreat would add a great deal to the city’s cultural landscape.

“For an artist to be able to go somewhere and have a retreat to make their art is very important,” said Supica. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Stephen King, it’s that being able to lock yourself in a room and write can produce some great art.”

Stephen Brough, a Bangor resident currently running for City Council, disagreed with the zone change, stating that putting the homes into the hands of a non-profit would take them off the city’s tax rolls, a move he did not think would be in the city’s best interest.

Councilor Cary Weston noted that regardless of whether or not the zone change went through, the Kings would be free at any time to sell their homes to their non-profit, which would still remove them from the tax roles.

The Kings owe $29,656 in property taxes this year on their home at 47 West Broadway, which has an
assessed value of nearly $1.3 million. They owe $23,101 on their property at 39 West Broadway, whose assessed value is just over $1 million.

Article from Bangor Daily News October 17, 2019.

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[tzarinna]

If you're in the DC area, this little theater will be playing Christine this month.
Suns Cinema | Mount Pleasant Theater & Bar

 

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King Is The 5th Highest Paid Author In 2019
Posted: December 29, 2019, 08:07:28
On Forbes list of highest paid authors (2019) King ends up on 5th place.

Top 5
1. J.K. Rowling ($92 million)
2. James Patterson ($70 million)
3. Michelle Obama ($36 million)
4. Jeff Kinney ($20 million)
5. Stephen King ($17 million)



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Audie Awards Honors King For Lifetime Achievement
Posted: January 10, 2020, 09:02:33

2020 Audie Awards to Honor Stephen King for Lifetime Achievement in New York City on March 2.

Mr. King, a four-time Audie Award® winner and seventeen-time nominee, is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. A long-time advocate for audiobooks, Mr. King once wrote of his love of the format: “The spoken word is the acid test. They don’t call it storytelling for nothing.” Mr. King has narrated some of his own audiobooks, published audiobook originals, and has used his megaphone to highlight the joys of listening.



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[squeekness]

He deserves any award he's given.

 

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Limited Cover For Sleeping Beauties Comic
Posted: January 13, 2020, 10:49:57
Section: General news » Sleeping Beauties (Comic)
The 10-part Sleeping Beauties comic book series is set to launch soon from IDW Publishing and today we got a look at the limited cover.

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[KingsGhost]

I wonder what a modern day Misery would be like...

 

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King leaves Facebook and Instagram
Posted: February 1, 2020, 15:38:37
Stephen King has closed his Facebook and Instagram accounts. If you want to keep following him you’ll have to do it on Twitter.

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[squeekness]

For anyone thinking about watching Locke and Key on Netflix (Joe Hill) it's actually pretty good.

 

[childeroland]

I liked the first two episodes.

 

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The Fifth Step; New Story By King
Posted: February 19, 2020, 23:48:35
It's been confirmed that the story in the March issue of Harper’s Magazine is a new story. It’s a 4 page story called The Fifth Step.

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[Story] The Fifth Step, by Stephen King | Harper's Magazine

 

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King & Hill At The Audie Awards
Posted: March 3, 2020, 09:18:42
Stephen King and Joe Hill attended the Audie Awards where Hill’s Full Throttle won for Best Collection and King got a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Rage On the Stage
Posted: March 4, 2020, 11:20:43
This past weekend, Quinnipiac’s black box theater transformed into a 1970s classroom not only for its cast but also its audience. For just over two hours, the Quinnipiac theater department took the crowd hostage as it debuted Rage, an original play based off a Richard Bachman (King) novel of the same name, as well as another King work titled, Guns.

You can read more about the panel about gun violence as well as the play at these links:

The Road to Rage
The coming of Rage story
Quinnipiac University Students Unleash Suppressed Rage

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New Release Date For If It Bleeds
Posted: March 24, 2020, 23:54:50
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
King’s official site reports that If it Bleeds will be released on April 28 instead of May 5!

Narrators For If It Bleeds Selected
Posted: March 24, 2020, 23:44:13
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
Steven Weber, Danny Burstein and Will Patton will be narrating the four novellas in If it Bleeds.



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[squeekness]

Works for me.

 

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Back Cover For If It Bleeds
Posted: April 1, 2020, 08:39:28
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
Here is the back of the cover for the US edition of If it Bleeds.

If it Bleeds is released April 28, order your copy here:

Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com

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King’s Been Working On A Novel Since Last April
Posted: April 8, 2020, 22:12:19
In the NPR interview King says he’s been working on a novel since April last year and because of the Corona Virus he felt he had to change some things...

I set the book I'm working on in the year 2020 because I thought, "OK, when I publish it, if it's in 2021, it will be like in the past, safely in the past." And then this thing came along, and I immediately looked back through the copy that I'd written and I saw that one of the things that was going on was that two of my characters had gone on a cruise. ... And I thought, "Well, no, I don't think anybody's going on cruise ships this year." And so I looked at everything and I immediately set the book in 2019, where people could congregate and be together and the story would work because of that.

There is no more information about the novel yet but I’m already looking forward to it.



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King Reads From If It Bleeds Tomorrow
Posted: April 16, 2020, 08:02:35
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
King will be reading from his upcoming book If It Bleeds on Simon & Schuster’s YouTube Channel tomorrow (April 17th) at 2PM Eastern.

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King & Grisham Event On April 29
Posted: April 24, 2020, 08:19:26
Section: Book » If It Bleeds
Stephen King and John Grisham will do an event online on April 29. The two authors will talk about their new books Camino Winds and If It Bleeds.

Links:
Stephen King’s YouTube Channel

Eventbrite

Binc

Join two of the biggest authors of all time as they catch up and discuss their latest books, John Grisham's Camino Winds and Stephen King's If It Bleeds.

Send us your questions by using #AskKingandGrisham.

The event is free but the authors hope attendees will consider making a donation to Binc, the Bookseller Industry Charitable Foundation: Book Industry Charitable Foundation | DonationPay

This event will be broadcast live on Stephen King's YouTube channel - register to receive a direct link to watch.

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Summary Of The April 29th King & Grisham Event
Posted: April 30, 2020, 08:31:16
Sections: Book » If It Bleeds, Book » The Assassin, TV » Lisey's Story
The event with King and Grisham was great and even if we didn’t get any news about upcoming Dark Tower books or the third Talisman book we did get some interesting news. Here is a summery of the most important things.

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King said he would be signing books tomorrow (read today Thursday) that would then go out to smaller bookstores to help them survive the Corona crisis. No word on where those books would be sold though or how to get them. No word on that titles either but my guess is that it will be copies of If it Bleeds.

King is writing a crime novel about a hired assassin and he did talk about it as The Assassin but there is no confirmation that this will be the title. Could be something he just called it here or it could be a working title…or it could be the final title. I guess we’ll see once it’s published.

This seems to be the same book he mentioned in the NPR interview earlier this month when he spoke about having to change the fact that some characters went on a cruise. You can read about that here.
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King said he was willing to collaborate with Grisham but Grisham said he had talked to Peter Straub about collaborating with King. Peter had said King works very fast and Grisham isn’t sure he could keep up. My feeling was that this was mostly a joke and there aren’t any serious plans on a collaboration.
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King said they were 24 days from finishing principal filming on Lisey’s Story before they were shut down due to the Corona virus. The set is just sitting in a warehouse waiting of them to resume filming.
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King also says he has no new book scheduled for release but he has a medium length novel that is done that might be released next year, maybe as a paperback original. It’s a suspense story with a supernatural twist.
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[titansupes]

Picked up 'Salem's Lot for the first time just a few weeks ago, since the pandemic has given me some time to use... Surprised to say, I ended up disappointed. Very slow to start, but eventually got going... then it rose to nice level of tension which I enjoyed, but sadly never went beyond that. Then, IMO, an abrupt/anticlimactic end.