View Full Version : Stephen King in 2016
Like last year's thread (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?18202), this is just to speculate as to what we can expect from King next year. It seems to me the only book tentatively scheduled for 2016 is End of Watch, the third Mr. Mercedes novel. I don't believe other than that King has dropped any hints as to whether he'll continue his two-books-a-year pace (two books each in 2013, 2014, and 2015, and only one of them not a novel). Unless I'm blanking on it, I do not recall if King or Ms. Mod stated recently if King is definitely working on something specific like a novel, though we all know he is.
webstar1000
09-15-2015, 05:04 AM
I really hope and BELIEVE we will see The Battle of Jerhico and I also believe he has started it to some degree. Next year??? no.... but by 2017... yes. I hope for a signing next year too!
Ben Staad
09-15-2015, 05:57 AM
Wasn't there talk of finishing up the collaboration with Peter Straub? If so maybe that's on the agenda.
If it ever comes, I hope it will be in 2018. There was a 17-year gap between The Talisman (1984) and Black House (2001). Seventeen years after 2001 would be 2018. It just fits. And Straub said last year at a signing that it should be soon now...
mattgreenbean
09-15-2015, 06:11 AM
If it ever comes, I hope it will be in 2018. There was a 17-year gap between The Talisman (1984) and Black House (2001). Seventeen years after 2001 would be 2018. It just fits. And Straub said last year at a signing that it should be soon now...
The sooner the better IMO
The Library Policeman
09-15-2015, 06:11 AM
He's moving into my house in 2016 to write a book soley for me à la Annie Wilkes. :evil:
Bev Vincent
09-15-2015, 06:12 AM
There's been no work done with Peter thus far on a third book. Peter's recurrent health problems is an issue.
He is working on other things, but none of them are scheduled for publication at this point.
webstar1000
09-15-2015, 06:19 AM
There's been no work done with Peter thus far on a third book. Peter's recurrent health problems is an issue.
He is working on other things, but none of them are scheduled for publication at this point.
Do you believe a DT book is coming Bev?
Well, not no work. According to various reports through the years, the two have at least talked about the third book several times and at this point have an idea of what it may be.
Bev Vincent
09-15-2015, 06:24 AM
Do you believe a DT book is coming Bev?
I have no indication that a DT book is coming any time soon. That's not to say it won't happen, but I don't know anything about it.
NoAttitudeThisTime
09-15-2015, 06:39 AM
King mentioned in an interview sometime in the beginning of this year, that we was working on something with his son Owen. I wonder if they are still working on the project or if it just awaits a publisher
LostAlivE
09-15-2015, 06:40 AM
Maybe after "End of Watch" King might just take a break after all he has been a very busy man lately.
Maybe after "End of Watch" King might just take a break after all he has been a very busy man lately.
Nonsense.
herbertwest
09-15-2015, 08:12 AM
King mentioned in an interview sometime in the beginning of this year, that we was working on something with his son Owen. I wonder if they are still working on the project or if it just awaits a publisher
I dont think that Steve ever wait for a publisher for working on a project.
He is lucky enough to be able to write anything and his publishers will want to release it...
jreitan47
09-15-2015, 08:19 AM
Maybe not from King, but this is listed as a 2016 release by one of our own......
Reading Stephen King - Apr 15, 2016
by Brian James Freeman and Stewart O'Nan
Nerak
09-15-2015, 12:56 PM
Maybe not from King, but this is listed as a 2016 release by one of our own......
Reading Stephen King - Apr 15, 2016
by Brian James Freeman and Stewart O'Nan
COOL!
Any hey baby!!!!!
Merlin1958
09-15-2015, 03:47 PM
Well, not no work. According to various reports through the years, the two have at least talked about the third book several times and at this point have an idea of what it may be.
Do tell, my friend. You can't drop a post like that and not give the masses a little more to drool over!!! LOL
RichardX
09-15-2015, 04:55 PM
Charles Starkweather or the Stand spin off that he referenced a while back.
Well, not no work. According to various reports through the years, the two have at least talked about the third book several times and at this point have an idea of what it may be.
Do tell, my friend. You can't drop a post like that and not give the masses a little more to drool over!!! LOL
Nothing very specific, Bill, just it's been mentioned on and off. Check out the long Talisman 3 thread at The Oracle.
Merlin1958
09-15-2015, 08:09 PM
Well, not no work. According to various reports through the years, the two have at least talked about the third book several times and at this point have an idea of what it may be.
Do tell, my friend. You can't drop a post like that and not give the masses a little more to drool over!!! LOL
Nothing very specific, Bill, just it's been mentioned on and off. Check out the long Talisman 3 thread at The Oracle.
I have read through that in the past. I guess we just wait and see.
And hope!!!
What I'm really curious about now that we're about to hit 2016 is that often repeated number of "more than 350 million" books sold over King's career. As far as I can tell, that number, albeit vague, goes back at least ten years. If you look at King's Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies
That claim is linked to a BBC article from November 22, 2006. So in ten years King's numbers haven't increased any? I know it says "more than", so it can be anything - 400, 500 million. But what's the newest and most up to date estimate?
Mr. Rabbit Trick
10-24-2015, 08:02 AM
But what's the newest and most up to date estimate?
He's had millions off of me! :)
Bev Vincent
10-24-2015, 11:38 AM
What I'm really curious about now that we're about to hit 2016 is that often repeated number of "more than 350 million" books sold over King's career. As far as I can tell, that number, albeit vague, goes back at least ten years. If you look at King's Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies
That claim is linked to a BBC article from November 22, 2006. So in ten years King's numbers haven't increased any? I know it says "more than", so it can be anything - 400, 500 million. But what's the newest and most up to date estimate?
No one really knows. Those numbers get bandied about, but they're wild-a$$ guesses at best.
What I'm really curious about now that we're about to hit 2016 is that often repeated number of "more than 350 million" books sold over King's career. As far as I can tell, that number, albeit vague, goes back at least ten years. If you look at King's Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies
That claim is linked to a BBC article from November 22, 2006. So in ten years King's numbers haven't increased any? I know it says "more than", so it can be anything - 400, 500 million. But what's the newest and most up to date estimate?
No one really knows. Those numbers get bandied about, but they're wild-a$$ guesses at best.
Well, feels like that number should somehow be updated after being bandied about by everyone since at least 2006. It's way outdated by now and not as impressive anymore, especially with King doing his two-books-a-year thing lately. Get some Scribner intern in front of Excel, stat!
goheat
10-28-2015, 11:02 AM
I'd like to see that Cell movie released at some point. IMDB lists its status as completed...
Phalucha
10-28-2015, 06:34 PM
I hope he does another signing in Bridgton. That was a fun weekend...even if I did get lost in the mountains of Northern NH!
Merlin1958
10-28-2015, 06:40 PM
I wish he would visit, Arizona one of these days!!! I'd prefer to host a bunch of you cretin's right here in my adopted state!! LOL LOL LOL
If he does decide to come here, he better do so soon!! Wouldn't want to be here when, God turns on the dryer and it's 115 degrees out!!! LOL :emot-flame:
herbertwest
10-29-2015, 01:01 AM
I'd like to see that Cell movie released at some point. IMDB lists its status as completed...
Since a year or more
Bev Vincent
11-04-2015, 07:53 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
zelig
11-04-2015, 08:09 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
Do we know what he's working on now?
jsmcmullen92
11-04-2015, 09:13 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
Maybe I will finally have a break to catch up on reading now :)
Randall Flagg
11-04-2015, 09:52 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
Do we know what he's working on now?
DT 4.5.2
Roseannebarr
11-04-2015, 10:30 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
She was answering my question! She likes me, she really likes me!
Mr. Rabbit Trick
11-04-2015, 10:56 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
She was answering my question! She likes me, she really likes me!
I wish she liked you a bit more, then she might have given us some info! :)
Roseannebarr
11-04-2015, 11:53 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
She was answering my question! She likes me, she really likes me!
I wish she liked you a bit more, then she might have given us some info! :)
Your right. :( she gave me the company line and i fell for it. :frown1:
wizardsrainbow
11-04-2015, 01:39 PM
That's ok, we still love you!:rose:
TCCBodhi
11-04-2015, 02:23 PM
That answer WOULD be in line with being a cagey answer for DT4.5.2 or whatever you'd want to call it...... We can hope.
webstar1000
11-04-2015, 05:11 PM
I be within one year another DT book is announced or released!!
Merlin1958
11-04-2015, 05:18 PM
I be within one year another DT book is announced or released!!
I could see a "TDT-Related" type novel along the lines of "Insomnia", "From a Buick 8" and "Black House". Just a blind hunch, but I don't think we will get another TDT book in the sequence, so to speak.
webstar1000
11-04-2015, 05:41 PM
I be within one year another DT book is announced or released!!
I could see a "TDT-Related" type novel along the lines of "Insomnia", "From a Buick 8" and "Black House". Just a blind hunch, but I don't think we will get another TDT book in the sequence, so to speak.
Yeah I agree. This will be a "prequel" as King knows the story but hair has not put it to paper... The battle of Jericho:) I am a believer!!!!
herbertwest
11-05-2015, 04:26 AM
From Ms. Mod:
Stephen doesn't always publish 2 books a year and End of Watch is the only one from Scribner that's officially set for 2016. I'm not saying there definitely won't be another one, just that what he's working on now hasn't been set in stone for a 2016 Scribner release.
Do we know what he's working on now?
Let's not forget that she said that is the only one FROM SCRIBNER.
Doesn't mean there wouldnt be something else with someone else, like Hard Case Crime maybe?
Kevbot
11-05-2015, 10:09 AM
Has anyone heard anything King's planned post-End of Watch? Normally by this time in the cycle, we usually would have heard at least one (if not two!) books ahead. Thoughts? Rumblings? Rumors?
See here: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?19314-Stephen-King-in-2016
(Should be moved there.)
jreitan47
12-10-2015, 06:21 PM
Stephen King will have a story in this anthology in 2016. The editor won't release information yet if it's a reprint or not (I'm betting it's a reprint). To be published by Dark Regions Press. With Dark Regions I'm sure a limited will be announced soon so sign up for their email and Facebook posts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/JReitan47/DD3329C0-B11F-4716-9D85-DED1D13A1C7F_zpsyqfyfu2m.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/JReitan47/media/DD3329C0-B11F-4716-9D85-DED1D13A1C7F_zpsyqfyfu2m.jpg.html)
TCCBodhi
12-10-2015, 07:04 PM
Jaunt, perhaps? There aren't a whole lot that fit Science Fiction without stretching the genre. Thanks for the heads up Jonathan!
zelig
12-10-2015, 07:21 PM
Thanks for posting that.
wizardsrainbow
12-11-2015, 03:29 AM
I'm "just passing this along"....a trusted member here told me awhile back that King told HIM in Bridgeton that he had just finished writing another DT book that very morning (July 12, 2015)....whether a ruse, in jest, a smart-ass answer or the truth from Steve....only time will tell.
Mr. Rabbit Trick
12-12-2015, 01:10 AM
King Tweet about the rumor of Idris Elba playing Roland...
"To me, the color of the gunslinger doesn't matter. What I care about is how fast he can draw...and that he takes care of the ka-tet."
Well a black actor played a ginger Irishman called Red, and it worked for me.
Br!an
12-12-2015, 04:27 AM
Isn't that what's called Black Irish? :wtf:
Kevbot
12-16-2015, 02:38 PM
Anything further? I'm so eager!
Bunyip
12-16-2015, 11:00 PM
King Tweet about the rumor of Idris Elba playing Roland...
"To me, the color of the gunslinger doesn't matter. What I care about is how fast he can draw...and that he takes care of the ka-tet."
Well a black actor played a ginger Irishman called Red, and it worked for me.
That could be true, I had never thought of Luther as Roland...probably could work. I'm still crushed and disgusted at whatever dodgy back room deal saw Tom Cruise cast as Jack Reacher. Totally ruined it for me...if you watch some scenes in slow motion you can actually see that Tom Cruise legs aren't even long enough to reach the ground. I can't believe he is supposed be 6 foot 5" or whatever....it really ruined the whole thing for me.
peripheral
02-01-2016, 12:37 AM
.if you watch some scenes in slow motion you can actually see that Tom Cruise legs aren't even long enough to reach the ground. I can't believe he is supposed be 6 foot 5" or whatever....it really ruined the whole thing for me.
:emot-roflolmao: Word!
needfulthings
03-28-2016, 11:26 AM
http://imageshack.com/a/img923/9682/x1lIB3.jpg
zelig
03-28-2016, 11:31 AM
If I remember correctly, for me it was Joanna Lumley. Purdey in The New Avengers.
Bev Vincent
03-28-2016, 11:34 AM
Kim Novak.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a14101/stephen-king-kim-novak/
mattgreenbean
03-28-2016, 11:35 AM
http://imageshack.com/a/img923/9682/x1lIB3.jpg
A little preview from it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-first-time-stephen-king-really-noticed-a-womans-breasts/2016/02/12/db4e95b6-d1ad-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html
Now that End of Watch is out today, for the first time in some years (can't think of exactly how many, but must be quite a few) we Constant Readers don't have a King book to look forward to. Feels weird.
I hope something is announced soon for 2017 :excited:
Randall Flagg
06-07-2016, 11:52 AM
Don't fear...
webstar1000
06-07-2016, 11:54 AM
Don't fear...
I agree... King can't help but write.... I totally think another DT novel is coming.... I just FEEL IT!
Aronstg
06-07-2016, 12:50 PM
Don't fear...
I agree... King can't help but write.... I totally think another DT novel is coming.... I just FEEL IT!
That would be pretty cool and that would set the King world afire. It also would be a smart move to announce that along the same times as the movie release.
herbertwest
06-07-2016, 01:54 PM
Don't fear...
the reaper
NoAttitudeThisTime
06-07-2016, 03:39 PM
There's the book he wrote with Owen but we might not see that one this year. Aside from the story The Music Room and his essay in Hearts in Suspension, who knows if we'll get a Kindle novella or something.
Bev Vincent
06-08-2016, 07:07 AM
From Ms. Mod (http://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/end-of-watch-book-signing.9692/page-23#post-629294): The only other book that will be coming out this year will be the non-fiction one about his time at the University of Maine which is an anthology of essays by Stephen and various people who were there with him at the time. Projects beyond that I'm not able to talk about yet as I haven't been given the official thumbs up to make them public.
So something is obviously cooking for 2017. Good to hear.
biomieg
06-08-2016, 07:11 AM
'Projects beyond that'
Plural. I like that.
biomieg
06-08-2016, 07:11 AM
By the way, that non-fiction book sounds quite interesting!
webstar1000
06-08-2016, 07:18 AM
Something DT related is cooking.... Aron was right I bet... King would make a BIG splash released a book next Spring in time for the movie... Bev... tell us... thats it right brother? hehe :excited:
Bev Vincent
06-08-2016, 07:19 AM
Something DT related is cooking.... Aron was right I bet... King would make a BIG splash released a book next Spring in time for the movie... Bev... tell us... thats it right brother? hehe :excited:
I know nothing...I hear nothing...I see nothing
NoAttitudeThisTime
06-08-2016, 08:23 AM
Maybe King's version of the Battle at Jericho Hill
Br!an
06-08-2016, 08:25 AM
I know nothing...I hear nothing...I see nothing
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M019bce4906cf066c62305ed4296e9d4fo2&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300
Randall Flagg
06-08-2016, 11:33 AM
Something DT related is cooking.... Aron was right I bet... King would make a BIG splash released a book next Spring in time for the movie... Bev... tell us... thats it right brother? hehe :excited:
I know nothing...I hear nothing...I see nothing
I'm not at liberty to say: "I'm not at liberty to say".
Bev Vincent
06-08-2016, 11:39 AM
Something DT related is cooking.... Aron was right I bet... King would make a BIG splash released a book next Spring in time for the movie... Bev... tell us... thats it right brother? hehe :excited:
I know nothing...I hear nothing...I see nothing
I'm not at liberty to say: "I'm not at liberty to say".
"You might say so but I couldn't possibly comment "
Randall Flagg
06-11-2016, 02:27 PM
Possibly Fall 2017
Sleeping Beauties (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?20108-Sleeping-Beauties-new-novel-with-Owen-King&p=1005079#post1005079)
jreitan47
07-11-2016, 02:58 PM
For those who collect books about King:
"Stephen King and Philosophy (Great Authors and Philosophy)", by Jacob M. Held, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 15, 2016)
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-King-Philosophy-Great-Authors-ebook/dp/B01GISBC9A/ref=sr_1_55?ie=UTF8&qid=1468277735&sr=8-55&keywords=stephen+king
Also - Looks the LORD OF THE FLIES is being reprinted by Penguin Glassics later this year which includes King's intro.
needfulthings
07-11-2016, 03:17 PM
Just like the Lord of the Flies will be a reprint so will King's 2011 Introduction.
http://imageshack.com/a/img921/5189/iXWYNA.jpg
jreitan47
07-11-2016, 03:28 PM
Yep, that's why I said it was a reprint. :)
needfulthings
07-11-2016, 03:29 PM
OCT 31 2016 SIX SCARY STORIES SELECTED & INTERDUCED BY STEPHEN KING. (HARDCOVER $24.95)
jreitan47
09-28-2016, 08:05 AM
July/August 2016 issue of SPORTING CLASSICS magazine contains a reprint of King's "Man In the Black Suit", for those who collect everything (like me).
http://sportingclassicsstore.com/collections/back-issues/products/2016-5-july-august
jreitan47
09-28-2016, 08:33 AM
Also - King's review of Emma Donoghue's latest novel will be printed in the Sunday, Oct. 2 issue of NY Times Sunday Book Review section for those that collect non-fic pieces.
carlosdetweiller
09-28-2016, 08:46 AM
Thanks, Jonathan! Great info.
NoAttitudeThisTime
09-28-2016, 09:06 AM
Yeah, thanks for the info! I'm always interested in compiling appearances and reprints
jreitan47
09-28-2016, 09:54 AM
Yeah, thanks for the info! I'm always interested in compiling appearances and reprints
Well thanks to Bev for the NY Times news and thanks to eBay for the Sporting Classics magazine sighting. (Which, by the way.....there is an issue of this mag on ebay with wording on the front of the mag that doesn't match the one on the link I posted above...not sure what I'll get in the mail!)
jreitan47
11-14-2016, 11:16 AM
New collector's issue of Entertainment Weekly is now out featuring a forward by King on JK Rowling/Harry Potter:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683304535/ref=ew_bo_hp
you ever seen a ghost?
11-14-2016, 12:21 PM
i think this is a reprint of this:
C705. “J. K. Rowling’s Ministry of Magic” -
King writes about the popular Harry Potter series of books.
1. Entertainment Weekly #948 (August 17, 2007): 31-34.
2. Excerpted as part of “The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen King” in Entertainment Weekly No. 1113 (July 30, 2010): 51.
jreitan47
11-14-2016, 01:27 PM
i think this is a reprint of this:
C705. “J. K. Rowling’s Ministry of Magic” -
King writes about the popular Harry Potter series of books.
1. Entertainment Weekly #948 (August 17, 2007): 31-34.
2. Excerpted as part of “The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen King” in Entertainment Weekly No. 1113 (July 30, 2010): 51.
Very well could be, I just came across one on eBay, don't have a copy in front of me yet.
jreitan47
11-14-2016, 01:28 PM
Actually, yeah...it is. Just looked at the preview on the Amazon page. False alarm everyone....except those completists out there!
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