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