Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:15:41 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: some Stephen King news...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> rw_lynch at yahoo.com 2/28/2005 3:05:50 PM >>>
>I thought he'd decided to retire as a fiction writer.

One might suggest, never trust a fiction writer...

mjw
>
>--- 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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