Blaze (novel) Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of "Different Seasons") it was written before "Carrie" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as "'Salem's Lot". They chose the latter to be his second novel and "Blaze" became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the
Joyland (King novel) May 30, 2012. The novel's cover art was revealed on September 20, 2012 by "Entertainment Weekly". In his interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" on May 28, 2013, King revealed that the novel grew from a single image he had had for 20 years of a boy in a wheelchair flying a Jesus kite on a beach. King also notes that Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park in Salem, NH, was one of the main sources of inspiration for the novel. On May 13, 2013, Titan Books, which publishes the Hard Case Crime line of books, announced the publication of a