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Post by Pickle on Nov 20, 2008 15:40:56 GMT
Stephenking.com announced the stories of the upcomming book:
The Gingerbread Girl Harvey's Dream Rest Stop Stationary Bike The Things They Left Behind Willa Graduation Afternoon N The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates Mute Ayana A Very Tight Place The Cat from Hell
Plus one possible bonus story to be decided yet.
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Post by Pickle on Nov 20, 2008 15:42:35 GMT
Courtesy of Liljah's Library.
Lilja: You also have a collection of short stories coming out.
Stephen King: I do.
Lilja: Will it be out this year?
Stephen King: I think it’s gonna come out in…November. We went back and forth about the title. I wanted to call it Unnatural Acts of Human Intercourse.
Lilja: Yeah, I remember reading about that and also Pocket Rockets?
Stephen King: Yeah.
Lilja: Are there usually this many titles flying around?
Stephen King: You know, books with short stories are hard to title unless you name them after one of the stories and when I finally settled on the title I thought, “gee, Unnatural Acts of Human Intercourse, that is a really good title” but they had a nuts-fit. [laughs]
Lilja: [laughs] Yeah, I read that the publisher thought they would have a really hard time promoting it.
Stephen King: Yeah, “We can’t sell this, we blah, blah, blah” and I said “Well, look in your dictionary man, intercourse doesn’t even have anything to do with sex”. It’s what we’re doing right now. We’re having a conversation back and forth.
Lilja: Yeah, I liked that title. I was hoping for it but I guess Just Past Sunset is good as well…
Stephen King: Yeah, it’s like Nightshift and Four Past Midnight. It has some of that vibe to it so if they like that, it’s fine.
Lilja: Is it easier to name books that aren’t collections?
Stephen King: Yes! Cause the titles always kinda suggest themselves after a while. The only time I ever had a problem was the vampire book I wanted to call Second Coming and someone said it sounds like a sex manual.
Lilja: [laughs]
Stephen King: So, we ended up calling that one something else.
Lilja: Will all the previously published but uncollected stories be in the collection?
Stephen King: Now, I’m not supposed to talk to you about that very much… I think there’s like 13 stories in the collection, which is a good number of stories for a collection of scary stories.
Most of them are the ones that have been published in magazines but haven’t been collected. There is one story that is brand new that is called N. Just the letter N with a period after it and that’s a long story and you know, you could guess… The long stories like The Gingerbread Girl are gonna be in there and there is one other long one that hasn’t been published yet that’s called A Very Tight Place so those will be kind of the cornerstones and the anchors to it and the other ones … the stories that aren’t going to be in there are the ones that developed into novels, Lisey and the Madman and Memory. They won’t be in there.
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