Twitter calls out Stephen King for 'shameful' tweet about Texas' winter crisis By Madalyn Mendoza 2/17/2021 Gov. Ducey wants federal money to send AZ National Guard to border. 1 Edgar Allan Poe: 2 Stephen King: 3 Edgar Allan Poe: 4 Stephen King: 5 References Once upon a midnight dreary, as I spit this weak and weary, ('Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary' is the first sentence in 'The Raven', a famous poem written by Poe. Poe says he spits raps against King, even while he is weak and weary.) I will choke this joker with a trochee till his.
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Release Date: March 2nd, 2021
SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine—as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
LATER is the third book Stephen King has written for Hard Case Crime. Both of the previous two, THE COLORADO KID and JOYLAND, were New York Times bestsellers.
Stephen King commented, “I love the Hard Case format, and this story—combining a boy who sees beyond our world and strong elements of crime and suspense—seemed a perfect fit.”
“LATER is a beautiful story about growing up and facing your demons -- whether they’re metaphorical or (as sometimes happens when you’re in a Stephen King novel) the real thing,” said Charles Ardai, the Edgar Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime. “It’s terrifying, tender, heartbreaking and honest, and we’re so excited to bring it to readers.”
LATER will be published initially as a paperback original, featuring an original cover painting by Paul Mann. This edition will be followed by a limited-edition hardcover that will feature two new cover paintings by award-winning artist Gregory Manchess, one for LATER itself and one for a fictitious novel within the novel that features prominently in the plot. An ebook edition of LATER will also be available.
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© EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images US best-selling author Stephen King talks, during a press conference to unveil the Kindle 2, the latest version of Amazon's popular electronic reader, the Kindle, in New York, February, 9, 2009.Related Links
With Election Day just around the corner, Stephen King turned to Twitter Sunday night to offer a temporary farewell.
“I’m off Twitter until after the election,” King wrote, sparking a wave of comments from followers.
I'm off Twitter until after the election.#VoteBlueToEndTheNightmare
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) November 1, 2020
The author had posted about the foreboding 2020 General Election on Halloween night as well, saying “Damn, I’ll be happy when this election is over. (If it ever is.)”
In a video posted Sunday for Now This News, King elaborated on the comparisons he’s noticed between President Donald Trump and the fictional main antagonist — a politician whose rise to power would eventually bring on Armageddon — in his 1979 novel “The Dead Zone.”
“My worry at the time that I wrote ‘The Dead Zone’ was that somebody like Greg Stillson might actually get elected and rise through the ranks, become President of the United States, and start World War III,” he told the camera. “I know that American voters have always had a real attraction to outsiders with the same kind of right-wing, America-first policy. And if that reminds people of Trump, I can’t be sorry because it was a character that I wrote. It was a boogeyman of mine, and I never wanted to see him actually on the American political scene, but we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as President of the United States.”
Author @StephenKing predicted the rise of Trump 40 years ago — but he says the reality is scarier than anything he’s written pic.twitter.com/oZyuoQllXj
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 1, 2020
An interviewer can be heard offscreen asking “Do you think that the Trump presidency is scarier than a Stephen King novel?” Laughing, King responded, the “short answer to that is yes, I do. I do think it’s scarier.”
And as Americans head to the polls Tuesday, after millions have already mailed in their ballots due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Maine native urged everyone to “#VoteBlueToEndTheNightmare.”
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