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.
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.