Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:05:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: some Stephen King news...
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I thought he'd decided to retire as a fiction writer.

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> from one of the publishing newsletters I receive:
>
> King's Pulp Case Study
> Stephen King's latest experiment is a "pulp-style"
> crime novel, THE COLORADO KID, to be published by
> Hard Case Crime in mass market paperback this
> October. The company describes the book as "the
> story of two veteran newspapermen and their
> investigation into the mysterious death of a man on
> an island off the coast of Maine." Hard Case's
> books are issued in collaboration with Dorchester
> Publishing. Simon & Schuster will publish audio and
> e-book editions.
>
> King says in the release, "Hard Case Crime presents
> good, clean, bare-knuckled storytelling, and even
> though The Colorado Kid is probably more bleu than
> outright noir, I think it has some of those old-
> fashioned kick-ass story-telling virtues. It ought
> to; this is where I started out, and I'm pleased to
> be back."
>

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