Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years, as the team put '86 behind them and eighty-sixed the Curse.
 
A-Rod. Schilling. Sheffield. Foulke. The hot stove league was smoking. In April, the Sox took six of seven from New York Yankees. Youkilis was the Greek God of Walks. Local boy Mark Bellhorn found his bat. June was a disaster. Then Nomar went to Chicago, Varitek shoved A-Rod, Billy Mueller proved to be a Yankee killer, and this team never looked back, logging an astounding August and a solid September to claim the wild card. In the playoffs they killed the Angels, then ran into those damn Yankees. Who saved the Pennant race? David Ortiz. Who hit the only grand slam? Johnny Damon. Who's your daddy? Papi is. Down three games to none, down to their last three outs, the Red Sox rose from the dead to make history. Nothing left to do but sweep up. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.

Stephen King's award-winning, best-selling novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, is stunningly told in this, the first pop-up book by the master of suspense. It is a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, retold with intricate pop-ups and a breathtaking text. This is the ultimate must-have edition for Stephen King fans of all ages.

Stephen will be making two TV appearances on Thursday, December 2nd to promote his new book, Faithful, co-authored with Stewart O�Nan. First will be The Today Show on NBC (time has not been announced yet) and in the evening, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (11 PM E&P) on Comedy Central. Check your local listings, but to the best of our knowledge for those of us who are unable to stay up for the late night broadcast or just couldn�t get enough of it the first time around, it will be rebroadcast at the earlier time (7 PM E&P) on Friday, December 3rd as well.

Channel Se7en [sic] will be airing Kingdom Hospital on 16 November 2004 at 9:30 PM AEDT.

Desperation is now being produced as a feature movie (not a miniseries) for ABC (no air date yet). It is currently being filmed in Arizona. Mick Garris, whose previous Stephen King projects include Riding the Bullet, The Stand, The Shining, Quicksilver Highway [Chattery Teeth], and Sleepwalkers, wrote the screenplay and is directing this production. Cast members include:
   ·   Ron Perlman as Collie Entragian
   ·   Tom Skerritt as Johnny Marinville
   ·   Steven Weber as Steve Ames
   ·   Matt Frewer as Ralph Carver
   ·   Annabeth Gish as Mary Jackson
   ·   Henry Thomas as Peter Jackson
   ·   Charles Durning as Tom Billingsley

Did you miss Stephen's interview on the Today Show [9/20/2004]? The Today Show has posted it on their site. Follow this link and scroll about three quarters of the way down the page. (You will need Windows Media Player)

A website for Riding the Bullet [the movie] is now online, at http://www.ridingthebulletmovie.com
More information and features will be added to the site as it gets closer to the movie's release.

The message board is back up and accepting submissions. Unfortunately, many messages sent between 9/13/2004 and 9/15/2004 may not be posted due to technical difficulties.

Borderlands 5 - From the Borderlands is now available in paperback stores and newsstands nationwide (USA). The book has recently won a Bram Stoker Award as the Best Anthology of the Year, and contains a new Novelette by Stephen.
If you'd prefer a hardcover edition of the book, you can order it here.
Images of the book are available here.

Stephen will be appearing on the Today Show on Monday, September 20th on NBC. Check with your local network affiliate for time.

Stephen will be interviewed live, on stage by Charlie Rose at the 92nd Street Y at 7:30 PM EDT on Sunday, September 19th.

A new work of fiction by Stephen titled "Lisey and the Madman" will be included in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, an anthology edited by Michael Chabon, published by Vintage. The anticipated publication date is November 2004.

You can now pre-order your copy of the Kingdom Hospital DVD from Amazon.com

Cemetery Dance Publications has announced the release of THE DEVIL'S WINE, a poetry anthology edited by Tom Piccirilli. The contributors include Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub and many others.
Stephen's contributions were originally published in small venues during his college years and haven't seen print in over 30 years--this is the only time they have ever been reprinted!

An excerpt for The Dark Tower is now available online here.

An excerpt from Song of Susannah is available online here.

ABC will run the final 4 episodes of Kingdom Hospital as three one-hour episodes and one 2-hour episode. Episode 10 is called "The Passion of Reverend Jimmy" by Tabitha King and Stephen King. Episode 11 is called "Seizure Day" by Richard Dooling. Episode 12 is called "Shoulda' Stood in Bed" by Stephen King and the last episode which is 2 hours is called "Finale" by Stephen King. All are directed by Craig Baxley and they will run on consecutive Thursdays beginning June 24th.
Stephen King

A limited edition of 'Salem's Lot is being published through Centipede Press. It will include the original novel and two related short stories: "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road" as well as Stephen's introduction from the Pocket Books edition and over 50 pages of deleted scenes from the original manuscript which have never before been published. This limited edition of 300 copies will be available in October. Orders are currently being taken here.

BBC3 will be airing Kingdom Hospital tonight (3 May, 2004) and the following week on BBC2. You can view the BBC's Kingdom Hospital pages here.

In response to the overwhelming number of questions we've received about Kingdom Hospital through the message board, we've started to compile a Kingdom Hospital FAQ. Check here first for answers to your Kingdom Hospital queries.

ABC may understand what they are doing with the schedule for Kingdom Hospital; I do not. All I can tell you for sure is that we will be telecasting new episodes 6-13 starting next Thursday, April 8th at 9 E/PT, 8 CT (check your local listings).
Best wishes,
Stephen King

Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, lifelong Red Sox addicts, will chronicle the 2004 Red Sox season from spring training and Opening Day through to the highly anticipated events of the fall, in a hardcover book that Scribner will publish in late '04. They'll go to some games together and each will keep a diary. They'll argue or agree about plays and trades, and the result will be a fan's notes for the ages.

ABC originally intended to rebroadcast the second episode of Kingdom Hospital this past Saturday night. but did not do so because they had objections from the advertisers of America's Funniest Home Videos which was already slotted for that time period. We did not find out in time to notify you that ABC had changed their plans for the Saturday rebroadcast. We apologize for the inconvenience. They have told us they will rebroadcast this Saturday but we would suggest checking your local listings.

The premiere of Kingdom Hospital did better than any ABC dramatic series in over 5 years. The series continues Wednesday nights at 10pm E/P on ABC.

The UK release of the DVD edition of The Stand will be available April 5th.

The first review is out. Look in this week's (March 1st, 2004) issue of Time for the full story, but watch out for spoilers.

A KINGDOM HOSPITAL feature is in the current issue of TV GUIDE (February 28). Writer Craig Tomashoff visited the set in Vancouver and conducted interviews with KINGDOM HOSPITAL talent and executive producer, Mark Carliner. The article discusses how personal this series is for Stephen King.

Visit the site at http://www.kingdomhospitalofmaine.com

The movie adaptation of Secret Window will now be released on March 12th.

The movie adaptation of Secret Window starring Johnny Depp is currently scheduled for release by Columbia on April 28th at a theater near you.

• The air date for Kingdom Hospital has been changed. The official series premiere is now Wednesday, March 3, 9:00-11:00 PM (ET) on ABC. The subsequent episodes will air Wednesdays from 10:00-11:00 PM (ET). Click Here for more information from ABC.com
• Hyperion has released "The Journals of Eleanor Druse" in advance of the series. Read the "journals" that character Eleanor Druse kept while she investigated the terrifying supernatural events at Kingdom Hospital.