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." > ===== Rich Lynch ========== MIMOSA web site: http://jophan.org/mimosa/ 1960s Fan History Site: http://jophan.org/1960s/ http://www.livejournal.com/~rwl __________________________________