Desperation will air on May 23rd, at 8:00 p.m. on ABC - Check your local listings.

Regarding Cell...

CELL SPOILER: "Based on the information given in the final third of Cell—I’m thinking about the reversion back toward the norm of the later phone crazies—it seems pretty obvious to me that things turned out well for Clay’s son, Johnny. I don’t need to tell you this, do I?”

-Steve

Simon & Schuster Audio will be releasing the unabridged audiobook on CD and for download in June 2006.

Stephen King brilliantly revisits themes his fans will happily recognize in STATIONARY BIKE-a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.

When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junkfood-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly.

Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike - a picture of a quiet country lane that he can easily imagine himself pedaling down for hours at a time. Yet it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture - and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go ... and can't stay away from.

A riveting riff on artistic frustration, midlife mortality, and hard-won redemption, STATIONARY BIKE is a thrill ride that could come only from the mind of Stephen King. And Narrator Ron McLarty, bestselling author of THE MEMORY OF RUNNING: A Novel, knows his King: he's previously read FAITHFUL:
Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season and the classic, SALEM'S LOT.

STATIONARY BIKE will be available in June 2006 for the first time on audio and as a stand-alone story. It was originally published in the fifth installment of the Borderlands series of horror anthologies, edited by Elizabeth E. and Thomas F. Moneteleone.

Listen to Stephen on Voice of America Friday, February 17th. He'll discuss his work and latest book "Cell" on VOA's Talk to America, the world's only international daily call-in/discussion program.
You can hear Stephen on the Talk To America internet stream LIVE from 11:05am-12pm, Friday, February 17th. Here's the program website: www.voanews.com/talk You can email your questions to Stephen during the broadcast. Send your message to talk@voa.gov

Thanks to all who contributed to the Valentine’s Day story - ‘Till Death Do Us Part – great job everyone!. And a super-sized thanks to TBlack who coordinated all the behind the scenes mechanics of getting this accomplished. It wouldn’t have happened without him!

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Cell, the latest novel from Stephen King is now available in stores and online in Hardcover, CD Audiobook, and MP3 format.

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Amazon.com has announced “Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher”—a weekly original series which will stream live on the Amazon.com homepage every Thursday night for 12 weeks beginning June 1. Stephen will be doing an interview for their preview show being recorded this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. That interview will air on Amazon.com on Tuesday, January 24th to offer customers highlights of the show.

The publication of CELL is being heralded with exciting new promotions from Scribner, Amazon.com, and Entertainment Weekly. We have created a page devoted to CELL news to provide you with the details and links.

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World Fantasy Award winner Cemetery Dance Publications, critically acclaimed artist Glenn Chadbourne, and New York Times bestselling author Stephen King are proud to announce The Secretary of Dreams, the master of horror's first unabridged graphic short story collection!

Featuring a half-dozen classic tales of terror, this exclusive Cemetery Dance collection presents Stephen King's stories for the first time in the tradition of the pulp horror comics. Spanning close to 250 oversized pages, the hundreds of illustrations and full comic panels from acclaimed Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne transform The Secretary of Dreams into a work of art. Not one word from King's stories has been left out, but now they've been brought to life by hundreds of pen and ink drawings by Chadbourne!

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Stephen and Marvel have decided to push back the launch of the Dark Tower comic books to 2007. "Given the size of the project and all the creative talent involved, I want to give the Marvel series all the room to breathe it needs and deserves," said Stephen. "I've got so much else going on in 2006 - two novels coming out, CELL and LISEY'S STORY, and the work with John Mellencamp on 'Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.' The Marvel series is going to be a blast, and I want to have the time to enjoy it."

The 1st issue of the yet-to-be-named first arc of the Dark Tower comic series will be shipping in February 2007. The last issue of this six-issue series will be shipping in July 2007. The first hardcover collection will be shipping in October 2007.