King: Every Day A Gift

On June 19th, 1999 I got hit by a van while taking a walk. As I lay unconscious in the hospital, the docs debated amputating my right leg and decided it could stay, on a trial basis. I got better. Every day of the 20 years since has been a gift.
--Stephen King, June 20, 2019

King Gives A REVIVAL Warning

Looks like we're back to good ole straightforward horror.   Are you excited?  I am.

The book coming in November, REVIVAL, is a straight-ahead horror novel. If you're going to buy it, better tone up your nerves.

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Mr. Mercedes Is The First In A Trilogy

Stephen King posted today, "MR. MERCEDES is the first novel in a projected trilogy. Hodges, Jerome, and Holly will return in FINDERS KEEPERS next year."

I can't wait!

King takes on Poe

The relationship between Poe and King is discussed in Stephen King, A Face Among The Masters.  Here are a couple of short quotes from the chapter, "The Ghost Of Edgar Allan Poe,"

Stephen King’s story, Dolan’s Cadillac, is a brilliant tale of revenge. And guess who’s lurking in the shadows; why, it’s none other than King’s twisted grandpa, Edgar Allan Poe. King’s story is quite reminiscent of The Cask of Amontillado. 

. . . 

The two stories are similar in plot, tone, perspective, and even dialogue. King does more than just update Poe’s story; he adds a layer of richness to plot itself. Why does Montresor despise Fortunato? We’re not told. Frustrating , isn’t it? King supplies a motive for Robinson to so carefully plan Dolan’s demise. Poe was interested in the straight plot of the story, how the revenge might be carried out. King understood that giving the reader an emotional reason to hate Dolan would make his death all the more delightful. And as Dolan dies, the reader is invited to celebrate with Robinson.

Gardner, Brighton (2014-05-04). Stephen King A Face Among The Masters (Kindle Locations 448-450).  . Kindle Edition. (www.amazon.com)

Grammarly Looks At Celebrity Tweets

this is from Nikolas Baron at www.grammarly.com/blog

Grammarly recently compiled a list of the 25 most recent tweets from each of the top 150+ celebrities on Twitter, based on number of followers. Our team of proofreaders then corrected these tweets for spelling and grammar errors. Here’s a general overview of what we found:

• Female celebrities make fewer overall writing errors (11.1 mistakes per 100 words) than male celebrities (13.0 mistakes per 100 words) on Twitter
• Musicians are the worst writers in any category of celebrity, including politician, actor, athlete, and business leader, with an average of 14.5 mistakes per 100 words.
• Unsurprisingly, writers are the most accurate writers among all celebrities, with an average of 6.9 mistakes per 100 words
• The accuracy of a celebrity’s grammar correlates directly with that person’s age — younger celebrities make more grammar mistakes than older celebrities
• Celebrities who are older than 40 years old make more spelling mistakes (5.5 mistakes per 100 words) than celebrities who are younger than 40 years old (2.7 mistakes per 100 words)

We’ve summarized our findings using this handy infographic:

King: It's Time To Move On

I guess Stephen King is getting tired of CNN's wall to wall coverage of the missing flight 370.

Stephen King Offers Game Of Thrones Spoilers

King to Justin Bieber

"Memo to Justin Bieber: For  the young celeb, life is a banquet of free food.   What  they don't tell you is that you are often the last course."  That's great.

PENNYWISE Is Alive

Pennywise might have been chased off from Derry Maine, but he's not dead!  The evil clown has been making appearances throughout the United Kingdom borough of Northampton.

Shea Bennett of Media Bistro says, "Residents are, as you’d imagine, spooked, and you can understand why – imagine seeing this guy standing outside your window?"

Indeed, the clown has become so popular that a Facebook Page erected on Friday has already picked up more than 25,000 Likes, with the clown using Facebook to update fans, as well as fend off a few slightly sensationalised reports. 

As for why he’s doing all of this, that still remains unclear. But, as we can see from the photos, he has balloons. So, I guess the only question that really matters, is…

(Source: www.mediabistro.com)

Now. . . a question --  If you saw Pennywise,  would you pause to take a picture?  Well, I probably would.  But I don't think I'd have the courage to go up and say howdy.  Just for fear of hearing him say, "They float!"

And -- another question -- does anyone think the British Pennywise is perhaps a bit more, eh, scary than  the American versions?  I don't know why,  but I find that clown just flat out creepy.  And that's not to put down Curry's performance in the mini-series.  In fact, it's probably good Curry didn't look that scary, or I would have died watching it.

UPDATE: Here's a story about IT from CNN:



from huffingtonpost

Big Jim Sells Stephen King A Car

Dean Norris tweets: "Big Jim just sold Stephen King a used car (and it was a total lemon)"
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Scary Breaking Bad Fan

Dean Norris tweeted from the set of Under The Dome On CBS: "A VERY scary Breaking Bad fan. Oh, he also writes stuff #icon #stephenking #awesomeguy"

from King's facebook page (www.facebook.com OfficialStephenKing)

Day 1 Of Carrie Filming Wraps Up

Mail Online has put together some posts, news and photo's related to the first day of filming on the new Carrie set.  HERE (No pictures of filming actually taking place!)


Mail Online gives this summery:

Chloë Moretz reported for her first day on the Toronto set of the Carrie remake today, it was clear she'd already altered her hair to slip into the skin of the telekinetic teenager in the classic Stephen King horror tale.

Sporting a blonder, washed-out look, the 15-year-old star was seen walking from her trailer in all black - a simple T-shirt and loose Capri pants.

Moretz tweeted: "First day done :) Amazing day.. So happy to be apart of something do exciting :) Day 2 here we go ;)"


Mail Online has also posted a picture of the tweet of the cast dinner.  Cool stuff.

photo credit: Mail Online HERE

Has A Weakness Been Found?

The reviews for 11.22.63 have been fantastic.  King is the master of his craft!  His scenes are powerful, fresh and driven.  Is there any weakness in his writing?

The Atlantic Wire has a summery of a "shortlist" from the Literary Review -- a list King is on.  So what's the list?  Well, this is a bit awkward, but it's. . . "the shrotlist for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award." (Literary Review ) 

The Atlantic notes that "the publication highlighted the clinical, overheated, and/or ham-fisted bedroom scenes that helped each text earn its on the list."  The Huffington post says that this year's winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Naval & Military Club in London.

Here is the line that caught their attention, "She was wearing jeans. The fabric whispered under my palm. She leaned back and her head bonked on the door. 'Ouch!' I said. 'Are you all right?'"

So that line gets him an award?  I haven't reached that point in the book, but on its own it's not that awkward -- is it?

The Literary Review wrote, "In a year in which literary awards have come under fire for parochialism and dumbing-down, Literary Review is proud to uphold and recognise literary excellence from around the world.  Authors in the running hail from, among other nations, the USA, Hungary, Japan and Australia. Two are annually mentioned in the same breath as the Nobel Prize."

So, simple question friends: Are King's love scenes awkward?

Club Stephen King Contest !

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Club Stephen King has topped 10,000 followers on twitter!  Join the updates and you'll also be able to get in on their current contest. 

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