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
Rage (King novel) in the United Kingdom and other countries in "The Bachman Books" for a time, but later appeared to become unavailable. New editions of "The Bachman Books" do not include "Rage". In a footnote to the preface of the novel "Blaze", dated 30 January 2007, King wrote of "Rage": "Now out of print, and a good thing." King said, in his keynote address at the VEMA Annual Meeting on May 26, 1999: "The Carneal incident was enough for me. I asked my publisher to take the damned thing out of print. They concurred." King went on to describe his view on