Should King use this website to expand mythologies?

[Rrty]

I don't know a lot about J.K. Rowling or her website, but I just read an item that said she released an essay giving some deeper background history to a set of characters in her Harry Potter universe.

This got me thinking: could King do the same?

Imagine if King occasionally posted brief pieces of fiction (even of the flash variety), faux documents, trivia, Twitter statements/Facebook postings of characters, etc., here on the website -- would that be an interesting endeavor?

What if we were able to read a news clipping about the ship rising from the ground in Haven? What if an excerpt from a Supreme Court opinion detailing some legal argument in the King universe were posted (maybe something related to Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, something to do with prison conditions?)? What if we read the Facebook post from Mike Hanlon, calling the Losers back together once again? What if King listed one/two-sentence loglines of ideas he would he used for other stories told in the comfortable confines of the strange club from The Breathing Method? What if we read about other curses, and their gruesome effects, placed on people (deserving, or otherwise) by Taduz Lemke?

I think something like this would be fun.

 

[skimom2]

It certainly could be fun, but it's more likely to happen on the site of a small to mid-list writer, especially for an author that skews his or her writing to adults. Pottermore is skewed to kids (though a scandalous amount of adults took up the participatory spots when membership was limited, IMHO), and sites for children/YA authors are highly likely to have 'gimmicks'. A hungry small to mid-lister, especially in genre fiction, might make up a whole bunch of stuff to drive readers to their website and hope that that translates to sales. And gimmicks can boost a genre writer for a while. At the end of the day, though, it's quality and volume of writing that makes writing something a person can make a living from (and support a staff). A top-shelf writer isn't as likely to do gimmicks (though they might make occasional experiments, like "The Office" section that used to be on this site), because they spend all that time writing things to sell not to give away free on the internet. KWIM?

 

[bobledrew]

HOLY CRAP DUDE! He's already written 50 books detailing his universe! He's OLD! Leave him be so he can write one more DT book before he heads to the clearing! ;-)

 

[hossenpepper]

I think Miss Mod is still impressed he can tweet stuff. Now you're just getting greedy. LOL

 

[staropeace]

Great idea but he does not have the time.

 

[PatInTheHat]

No.
(time better spent would be walking copies of his last three novels to the mailbox, addressed to one Patrick......)

 

[Maskins]

I'd love it if that happened. But I think that of all the authors out there, Mr. King does sprinkle in a lot of easter eggs for his Constant Readers. I think it is one of the reasons this forum has so many members is because he does things like that. I love the idea of using Facebook to call the losers club together.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

Call me old school, but I like a novel to be self contained and done with when I am finished reading it. Not really a fan of what you are proposing. (No disrespect meant.)

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[Blake]

No, we've got everything we need. I think he could write a book on magic tricks, though.

 

[Tiny]

yes yes YEEESS , OMFG yes/.

He could release all kinds of little things here and use it to promote new realese in stores.

ALSO I want some one who has read the COMICS to give brief outlines
of the 'INFO" thats inside them. stuff we didnt learn in the books.
FANS do it HERE . just info, facts... bare bone stuff. (not story lines)
like stuff about corts neice.

the comics could also go into ...new territories

 

[Tiny]

King could even release phamplette size stuff here and charge
something like a dollar , like ...what ever he did with the 'guns essay'

 

[CrimsonKingAH]

 

[Dramat]

I’m very new here and I did not learned this place well yet, but I would like to express my opinion.

What Rrty proposed might be attractive for Us, Forum members, but I think it would be an additional responsibility for Mr. King, that would drawn His attention/resources from writing, whatever He decided to write for publishing purposes.
Therefore my stand to proposed idea is: “No”.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

mythologies...like...who's in charge? Molly and the like? I mean, they're always smiling. Dogs know things.