Welcome to my message board.
New member registration has been disabled due to heavy spammer activity. If you'd like to join the board, please email me at MaxDevore at hotmail dot com.
New member registration has been disabled due to heavy spammer activity. If you'd like to join the board, please email me at MaxDevore at hotmail dot com.
Comments
The winning entrant, Myles Macdonald, won the competition to be the first fan to read the The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep (to be published on 24th September). MacDonald, who got to read the book - alone, in a hotel room, within 24 hours - said he he "absolutely loved it", and that it was "an unforgettable experience".
To enter the competition, fans had to comment in no more than 650 characters why they deserved to be the first UK fan to read Doctor Sleep. The competition was pushed across Hodder's online estate, including the Stephen King newsletter and the author's UK Facebook page. The publisher said the Facebook page likes rose by 6,000 across the competition period and over 2,000 fans signed up to receive the competition details.
Just over 600 entries were received, which Hodder called "a brilliant number for a mechanic requiring deeper thought and skill than the standard competition".
Lead judge Philippa Pride, Stephen King's Hodder editor, said: "We could hardly put a cigarette paper between some entries and we delighted in all all of them—from entries with inventive sentences which played with King's book titles to stories about reading their first King novel under the covers with a torch."
The winning entry can be read at https://www.facebook.com/stephenkingbooks/notes.
Twenty runners up received a limited edition poster each.
Hodder worked with digital marketing agency THINKJAM on the competition, and a partnership was brokered with London's Langham Hotel, which provided the luxury room and breakfast for the winner and supported the competition via its own social media.
>>> Source
Albin Michel and Heyne are proud to announce that Stephen will visit France and Germany to promote Doctor Sleep. With several events scheduled in both countries, The Constant Reader can rely on this page for all news and updates related to the European Book Tour. Be sure to check back here often as event details are still emerging.
Tickets for all events go on sale at 1pm CET September 16th.
[list bull-blackball][*]PARIS - 11.13 & 11.16
[*]MUNICH - 11.19
[*]HAMBURG - 11.20
[/list]
Contains mild, mild spoilers.
The best-selling author behind The Shining has returned to its central character, 36 years after the book was first published, for his latest novel.
Doctor Sleep begins a year after the events at the end of The Shining, and follows Danny Torrance to adulthood.
He spoke to the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz about why Jack Torrance is his most autobiographical character and why he hated Stanley Kubrick's film version.
Accompanying article
(Featuring me!)
More than 30 years after Stephen King first terrified readers with The Shining, he's written a sequel, drawing on his alcoholism and a near-death experience. He talks about being a drunk father and why the Twilight series is just 'tweenager porn'
In honor of the Sept. 24, 2013, release of "Doctor Sleep," the sequel to Stephen King's "The Shining," Yahoo Homes is taking a look at the Overlook Hotel -- really the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.
King sent his playlist for Doctor Sleep to Powell's bookstore.
While Cusack is considerably less prolific as a writer than he is as an actor, he does have some fairly prestigious writing credits to his name, having worked on the screenplays for two of his best loved movies, 'Grosse Pointe Blank' and 'High Fidelity.'
Of course, as 'High Fidelity' is based on the novel by Nick Hornby, Cusack certainly isn't unfamiliar with adapting books for the big screen.
He has also co-written the scripts for 'War Inc.', and the recent US/Argentina co-production 'No Somos Animales.'