Stephen King

NEW YORK, May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In an innovative and exciting collaboration, Simon & Schuster Audio and Play.it® will share in its entirety a stream of Stephen King's forthcoming audiobook short story DRUNKEN FIREWORKS for listeners nationwide.  CBS RADIO stations in more than 20 major markets across the country will drive tune-in to the special event on which takes place July 2nd.  Play.it® is an on-demand audio platform recently launched by CBS RADIO and CBS Local Digital Media.

Stephen King is anything but my favorite horror writer – and after all, he can afford to ignore my snark. Literally. And that’s precisely the point. But in that regard, he just substantially redeemed himself in my eyes – with a scathing and passionately profane article in The Daily Beast on just what he thinks […]

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The Final Ballot for Bram Stoker Awards® has been announced on the Horror Writers Association website. The nominees are in line for voting for “superior writing in eleven categories including traditional fiction of various lengths, poetry, screenplays and non-fiction. Previous winners include Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, George R. R. Martin, Joyce Carol Oates and Neil […]

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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship Fund for Nonfiction Writing, in honor of Rocky Wood (1959-2014), the Antipodean authority on horror fiction in general and the work of Stephen King in particular, who died on December 1st, 2014, after a long struggle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The Fund is intended […]

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According to a podcast from movie industry commentary series Hollywood Babble-On, as relayed by the JoBlo Movie Network, Clive Barker’s Imajica is to be adapted for television by Josh Boone, director of The Fault in Our Stars, who is also working on the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand. Interviewed by fellow director Kevin […]

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At one time, Stephen King was on the cutting edge of ebook technology as one of the first big-name writers to release his works digitally. But for all the "bells and whistles" ebooks have, King says, nothing will be able to replace a physical book. King joined HuffPost Live on Wednesday to chat about his upcoming film, "A Good Marriage," though the conversation turned to future of the book industry.

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