Stephen King and friends gather at the Collins Center for the Arts in November to launch Hearts in Suspension, a book that describes their experiences at the University of Maine during the Vietnam War era. King reads from his essay and 10 of the book's 13 authors talk about coming of age as activists in Orono during a time of war, protests, assassinations and the civil rights movement.

Stephen King and friends gather at the Collins Center for the Arts in November to launch Hearts in Suspension, a book that describes their experiences at the University of Maine during the Vietnam War era. King reads from his essay and 10 of the book's 13 authors talk about coming of age as activists in Orono during a time of war, protests, assassinations and the civil rights movement.

A new short story by Stephen, "The Music Room", published by Playboy is now available on-line.

Read the story here

As part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, bestselling author Stephen King and writer Eileen Myles read from their work on Wednesday, November 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The event is free, however tickets are required. Tickets will be available to the public beginning October 28th — more details will be posted at  their site  on that date.
Please note that King will not sign books following the reading, however presigned books (mixed titles) will be available for purchase.

UPDATE:

Please contact your digital retailer about getting the updated file. Simon & Schuster Audio has instructed them to provide the revised program with ‘Cookie Jar’ at no additional cost to past buyers of the audio download edition of Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

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A new story has been added to the audio edition of THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS.  ‘Cookie Jar’ is narrated by the talented Santino Fontana (who discerning listeners may recognize as the voice of Hans from Frozen).

Listen to an excerpt

Update (3): We've heard from Amazon, and they'll be adding the other "Stephen King's" middle initial to all of his books going forward. They have additionally added the following message on each book: “Please Note: Amazon offers books by various authors named Stephen King. If you are looking for Stephen King, bestselling author of The Shining and The Stand, please visit his Amazon.com Author Page.”

Thanks for your help, Constant Readers!

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Amazon has been deceptively marketing and selling books by some other "Stephen King" as the work of this Stephen King for several years. Despite innumerable requests from us to address this problem within their system, these books are still listed as authored by and associated with Stephen King, the author of Misery, Carrie, etc.

All of the books by this Stephen King can be found within The Library section of this website.

None of the following books are by this Stephen King. If you have been deceived and purchased one of these books, you should contact Amazon and demand your money be refunded.

• Awaken
• Grave Decisions
• Descendants
• The Crossroads Series
• Dark Love The Underground
• Beast Control
• Redstone
• Blood Rituals

As Amazon has failed to resolve this with only our requests,  please drop them a line  and let them know how you feel about their marketing of these books to you Constant Readers.

Update: We've now heard from many people that Amazon is additionally email-marketing these other "Stephen King" books to people who have bought books by Stephen King in the past.

Update (2): We were notified that Barnes & Noble was also listing these books as authored by this Stephen King. We contacted Barnes & Noble, and they were able to resolve this in less than four hours. The other author is Stephen King (2), and is no longer associated with Stephen King.

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT

The University of Maine has announced they will host the launch of Stephen’s book,  Hearts in Suspension, on November 7 at the Collins Center for the Arts (Orono). Tickets are free and will be available first to members of the University of Maine community on Oct. 12-14, and to the general public (2 tickets per person) beginning October 17, 2016.

Click here for the press release and full details

Preorder information

Hearts in Suspension is a primarily non-fiction book containing essays by King and twelve fellow students and friends about their experiences as students at the University of Maine. Also included are four installments of King’s student newspaper column, “King’s Garbage Truck,” and the novella “Hearts in Atlantis.”

More information about the book and how to order is available here

Our site policy towards advertising has always been, “No.” Recently however, it has come to our attention that the service we use for comments on pages within this site, Disqus, has started pushing advertising on our pages. This was done without our consent, and the advertisements have now been removed. We are addressing this issue with Disqus, and offer our sincere apology to all of you in Constant Readerland.

THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT

The Library of Congress has posted an update regarding how to acquire tickets for Bookfest 2016. Free tickets will become available on September 14th 2016 at 9am EDT. See the link below for all the details.

http://loc.gov/bookfest/

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For those of you who haven't seen it,  Tom Taylor (Jake Chambers) has posted a Dark Tower message on his Twitter account. If you don't have a Twitter account, you can go online to view it at https://twitter.com/tomtaylor1607/status/766620773654130688

For those of you who haven't seen it,  Matthew McConaughey has posted a Dark Tower message on his Twitter account. If you don't have a Twitter account, you can go online to view it at this link.

‘The Dark Tower’ rises! Your exclusive first look at Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba in the EPIC Stephen King film adaptation is available in EW’s Comic-Con issue (on stands Friday 7/15) and includes an interview with Stephen, director Nikolaj Arcel who will discuss what's in and what's not in from the books, as well as interviews with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, and photos from the set.

Read more about it here

Information regarding how to obtain tickets for Stephen’s appearance at the National Book Festival on September 24th is now available in the press release issued by the Library of Congress.

Read the press release here

Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) and Paul Giamatti (Sideways, John Adams) are among the talented actors to give voice to the brand new audiobook recording of Stephen King’s The Skeleton Crew

Go behind-the-recording and listen to excerpts here

A new story by Stephen, "Cookie Jar", has been published in VQR Online's Spring 2016 edition.

Read the story here

We've posted some photos from the first End of Watch Book Tour event, hosted by WORD Bookstore at the Loew's Jersey Theater.

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If you have any photos from the event that you'd like to share, you can upload them to Gallery XIX, our fan photo gallery.

Stephen appeared on CBS This Morning to promote End of Watch. See the link below to view the video on CBS.com

Watch the Video

Stephen will appear on CBS This Morning June 7th during the 8:30-8:45 EDT segment to talk about END OF WATCH. Be sure to check your local listings for the time in your area.

June is Audiobook Month! Watch Stephen King explain why he thinks “Audiobooks are Terrific”

Watch the video

Get ready for END OF WATCH by testing your memory of MR. MERCEDES and FINDERS KEEPERS in this fun retro game.

END OF WATCH will be in stores on June 7th.

Play it here

Can't wait until June 7? EW has an excerpt of END OF WATCH now available.

Read it here

Stephen has tweeted an intriguing hint regarding the Dark Tower movie. If you are not one of his Twitter followers, you can read his tweet by following the link below.

Read Stephen's Tweet

Check out Scribner's 15-second commercial for End of Watch at the link below.

Watch the Commercial

Stephen recently did a podcast for Nerdette to talk about his love for corgis and the infamous Molly a/k/a The Thing of Evil.

Listen here (written transcript also available at this link)

Ticketing for The Bookworm's (Omaha) book tour event on June 14th will begin on April 24th at 7 PM CDT.

More complete information about the event and ticketing are available here.

Salon@615 is excited to announce that Stephen King will appear at the Ryman Auditorium on June 11 at 8pm. Tickets are $38.50, and will be available for purchase via  this link beginning on Friday, April 15 at 10am CDT. Each ticket guarantees entry to the event as well as 1 copy of the hardcover edition of End of Watch. Ticket sales are limited to 4 per person. Please note: this event will not include a public book signing. Books will be given out at the end of the event. As a special bonus, signed copies will be distributed randomly to 400 lucky attendees.

Tickets for the Books & Co, Dayton, OH book tour event will go on sale April 13.

More complete information about the event and ticketing are available here

Barnes & Noble Reno will begin ticketing for their event on April 13th.

Full details about how to request a ticket can be found here.

Bookworks has announced that George RR Martin will be joining Stephen on stage at the June 16 event at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque.

Read the complete press release here

Tickets for Stephen's appearance in Salt Lake City, UT on June 17 will be on sale at 10 AM MT, 12 PM EDT on April 4th.

More complete information about the event and ticketing are available here

There will be a new short story titled "The Music Room" published in December in an anthology titled In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper.

Stephen also tweeted that a new non-fiction book titled HEARTS IN SUSPENSION will be published in the fall of 2016. It is a collection of essays by Stephen and others about his time as a student at the University of Maine.

Tickets for Stephen's June 10 appearance in Charleston, WV are now on sale.

More complete information regarding the event and ticketing are available here

Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley, PA will begin ticket sales on April 17 for their June 8 event.

More complete information regarding the event and ticketing are available here.
 

Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Carmichael’s Books in Louisville, KY, and Booksmart Tulsa, Tulsa, OK have all announced their ticketing information.

More information and the links to purchase tickets available here

BOOKWORKS, Albuquerque, NM, will begin ticket sales for their June 16 book tour event on March 26 at 9 AM MT

More information and the link to purchase tickets available here

WORD Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ will begin ticket sales at 2:30 PM EDT March 21st.

More information and the link to purchase available here

Below is the list of confirmed bookstores that will be sponsoring Stephen’s appearances. The format for these venues will be on-stage conversations and there will not be a book signing. Stephen will be pre-signing 400 books for each store that will be given out randomly at the event. More details will be released as they become available.

June 7      WORD Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ
June 8      Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley, PA
June 9      Books & Co., Dayton, OH
June 10    Taylor Books, Charleston, WV
June 11     Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
June 12     Carmichael’s Books, Louisville, KY
June 13     Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA
June 14     Bookworm, Omaha, NE
June 15     Booksmart, Tulsa, OK
June 16     Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM
June 17     The King’s English, Salt Lake City, UT
June 18     Barnes & Noble, Reno, NV

More Information

Stephen will be doing a book tour to promote the publication of End of Watch in June. Below are the cities and dates for each of the venues. We are currently in the process of finalizing details with the local venues so are not able to give out any additional information at this time but check back often for updates.

June 7            Jersey City, NJ
June 8            Sewickley, PA
June 9            Dayton, OH
June 10          Charleston, WV
June 11          Nashville, TN
June 12          Louisville, KY
June 13          Iowa City, IA
June 14          Omaha, NE
June 15          Tulsa, OK
June 16          Albuquerque, NM
June 17          Salt Lake City, UT
June 18          Reno, NV

Our friends at Hulu have teamed up with Scribner and Simon & Schuster Audio to bring you a chance to win an 11.22.63 Limited Edition Hardcover signed by Stephen King along with a One Month Subscription to Hulu. (Limited Commercials Plan)

For more information and to enter (US residents only) click here

It's official: The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. #DarkTowerMovie @McConaughey @IdrisElba

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 1, 2016

.@McConaughey you have one new follower. #DarkTowerMovie https://t.co/BSj1dHQtAB

— Idris Elba (@idriselba) March 1, 2016

.@idriselba come and get me, I look forward to it. #DarkTowerMovie https://t.co/7WhIO2rAph

— Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) March 1, 2016

Stephen confirms stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as production finally begins on The Dark Tower.  Read the EW article and interview here.

Check out the animated cover for END OF WATCH from Hodder & Stoughton

Available here

Never before released, just for you…the opening titles of @11.22.63 on @Hulu. Starts on Monday. Keep watching. They’ll change ever so slightly each week.

Watch them here

Official 11/22/63 Facebook Page

Hulu Facebook Page

For more information about Hulu

Thrilled to announce our two Audie Award nominations this year! The DRUNKEN FIREWORKS audiobook has been nominated for Best Original Work, and Will Patton has been nominated for Best Male Narrator for his performance recording FINDERS KEEPERS! #Audies2016

DreadCentral.com has posted a behind-the-scenes video interview with Stephen, J.J. Abrams and cast members.

Click here to read the article and watch the interview

It has been officially announced that director Josh Boone has put plans to film The Stand on hold to take on the production for Revival, possibly this year.

Read the full story here

Previously released as abridged recordings, the complete  unabridged  editions of THE REGULATORS and DESPERATION are available now for the very first time to own!  Beloved narrator Frank Muller reads THE REGULATORS and Stephen King himself gives voice to DESPERATION. 

Hear an excerpt from DESPERATION now

Check out Stephen chatting with Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis backstage at the Broadway production of Misery.

https://youtu.be/cJOoIszKKMo

We have been made aware that there is a hoax circulating claiming that Stephen was found dead today at his home in Bangor. Please be assured that this is just a hoax and Stephen is very much alive and well.

The Washington Post has announced a preliminary list of authors, including Stephen, who will be attending the National Book Festival on September 24th. We will keep you updated with more information as it becomes available.

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