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
King Leary Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1988, and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. It also won the 2008 edition of CBC Radio One's "Canada Reads" literary competition, in which it was championed by musician and writer Dave Bidini. The novel, which had previously been out of print for a number of years, was republished by Anchor Canada in 2007 shortly after its selection for "Canada Reads" was announced. King Leary King Leary is a novel by Canadian humorist Paul Quarrington, published in 1987 by Doubleday Canada. The novel is part of an unofficial trilogy with Quarrington's earlier "The