OK, it's contest time again. This time it's a first ed. of Pet Sematary and a signed limited edition artwork of Pet Sematary by Glenn Chadbourne at stake, how about that?
Also don't miss the interview I did with Glenn. Not only does he have a lot of interesting things to say but also there is also a little hint of what's to come for Lilja's Library.
Today I have a really interesting interview for you. It's with Glenn Chadbourne who has illustrated the upcoming King book Secretary of Dreams. In this interview he talks about the book, about Doug E Graves or "Dougie" as he is also called (the mascot he did for King's radio station)...and about another mascot he has done...
Now you can pre-orderLisey's Story from Amazon.com.
Here are some words about it from Barnes And Noble:
Lisey's Story is a wondrous novel of marriage, a love story steeped in strength and tenderness, and cast with the most vivid, touching and believable characters in recent literature. I came to adore Lisey Landon and her sisters, I ached for Scott and all he'd been through, and when I finally reached the bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion, my first thought was that I wanted to start over again from the beginning, for it felt as if were saying good-bye to old friends. This is Stephen King at his finest and most generous, a dazzling novel that you'll thank yourself for reading long after the final page is turned.
Today is Cell day. The book is out so go get it ASAP! My review is online now for you to check out and on the official Cell site you can now listen to a message from King.
On Amazon.com you can now see an interview with King done by Bill Maher. It's for Amazon Fishbowl 10 minutes long and pretty interesting. Head over there now!
Amazon.com announced that it has hired comedian Bill Maher to host a weekly online talk show that will be available for viewing on its website. The first episode runs in June, and among the guests will be novelist Stephen King. More info to come...
There are reports that besides Wal-Mart, Target and Chapters Book Stores also jumped the gun and has been selling copies of Cell since Saturday the 21.
OK, here is more info about new stuff from King that was revealed yesterday at the event at Eckerd College:
The story King read is called Willa and is about 7500 words according to King. Without giving too much away, it is the story of a man's search for his wife after they get off a train. King said that he wrote the story based on the final image he would read in the story, and then worked from there. Much more then that can't be told without giving it all away, but there are some very vivid and well-defined characters, and the story has a great mood and very poetic tone to it. No word on when it'll be released yet though...
King also told the audience that he's contemplating a Florida book soon, he has an idea for it, but he explained that he and his wife had been spending a lot of time here and he wanted to develop a "texture" for the landscape before writing.
Here is a quote from the St Pete Times article about the event:
"Stephen King, who has been a part-time resident of Sarasota for several years, told a packed auditorium at Eckerd College that he is nearly ready to set a novel in his adopted state. 'You have to get a little bit of texture for a place, ' King said, 'We've been down herenow spending about half the year since 1998. I think I have an idea for a book'"
King also mentioned that he had another hard boiled detective story in the works.
Thanks to Ed Yarb and Judith.
Yesterday King appeared on the An Evening With Stephen King! King read a brand new short story to test it on the crowd, the story was called Willa and King said it was about 7500 words.
Dennis Lehane introduced King and then fielded questions pre-filled out by the crowd for Stephen King. It went from 8pm to about 9:30pm, for a very receptive crowd... people of ALL ages. King made a brief comment about the crowd being asked to turn off their cell phones and launched into a very funny and thorough story about how he came up with the idea for the novel and promoted it's release several times throughout the night.
If anyone took any photos from the event, please let me know.
According to King's official site: 'Entertainment Weekly will be running the first two chapters of Cell in their issue on stands January 20, 2006, as a first serial excerpt. This is the first time in the history of the magazine that they have run a fiction excerpt.'
Ron McLarty has been selected to narrate the upcoming audio version of Stationary Bike. A good choice if you ask me!
The CD will be released in July and you can pre-order here.
The Mist script is finished, apparently. It has been widely reported that Frank Darabont was working on an adaptation of The Mist and it looks like the draft is actually done. In a report about the forthcoming “Indiana Jones” sequel, Ain't It Cool's Harry Knowles let slip that he read the script and it was “amazing,”.
The first day of Lilja's Library's Cell Contest was a success. There where a record breaking number or entries. The Winners will be announced on January 24. A new question is now online.
OK, It's contest time again. This time it's copies of Cell that's at stake. 10 copies of the audio CD and 5 copies of the hardback to be more exactA new question will be posted each day between January 19 and January 23 and I will draw 3 winners each day. Two of these will get the audio CD and one the book.
To make it a bit more interesting I won't publish the names of the winners every day as usual, this time I'll publish all the winners on January 24. That way you will have to live with the suspense a bit longer...yes, I know I'm cruel :-)
OK, so, just click the banner and answer the question. All answers can be found somewhere on the site. Good luck!
Stephen's Picks for the week of January 16, 2006 is out:
* Stephen is reading Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder (Very good)
* He is also reading Dead Low Tide by John D. Macdonald
* In theaters, Stephen saw Brokeback Mountain (Very good)
I got an email from Rocky Wood today and it seams that the Australian paper that ran the first part of Sword in the Darkness made a mistake. Rocky gives this explanation:
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.'
All of you that for some reason didn’t get Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished can now read Sword in the Darkness online. The Australian is publishing it online and the first part is already out, you can read it here. The next part (they have divided it in two parts) will be out next week.
On February 9th Simon & Schuster Audio will launch an exclusive Stephen King podcast on their site. It will contain a 20-minute interview with King himself, and an excerpt from the Cell audio book. The interview with King that was recorded on December 5 so it's a new and fresh one you don't want to miss.
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.
Cell will be released in France with the title Cellulaire in March and Robin Furth's The Dark Tower Concordance volume 2 will be released on March the 17th with the title La Tour Sombre - Concordance volume 2.
On the official message board someone asked if King had started a new book after Cell and Lisey's Story and the moderator confirmed that he had, as far as she know. Good news in other words.
Fangoria published these cool pictures from Desperation today!
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.
Stephen's Picks for the week of January 9, 2006 is out:
* 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)
So the winner of an ARC of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished has been drawn but first, here are the right answers:
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!
A new edition of Bev Vincent's News From the Dead Zone column is now online and among all the interesting things in it is how King got the story idea for Cell:
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."
Bev Vincent had the following to say about the excerpt from Lisey's Story that is in the US edition of Cell:
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.