Among millions of tweets, just the good stuff.
RT @juliebosman: Stephen King's new novel, "The Wind Through the Keyhole," debuts at #1 on the NYT hardcover fiction list
RT @geofflemon: I thought Stephen King was awesome before, but he's even more awesome now. Fiery commentary from a natural writer. Link ...
MT @neilhimself: LOOK! NEW BLOG ENTRY Popular Writers: A Stephen King interview.: posted by Neil Gaiiman. Link
RT @Flipbooks: "...You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will" ~Stephen King #quote
RT @Watsonology: Stephen King called Dolores Umbridge the "greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter."
RT @TheWritersDen: The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better. ― Stephen King
AKA: Richard Bachman, John Swithen, Stephen Edwin King, King Stephen, King, Stephen
Richard Bachman is a pseudonym used by horror fiction author Stephen King. At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year, since publishing more would not be acceptable to the public. King therefore wanted to write under another name, in order to increase his publication without over-saturating the market for the King "brand." He convinced his publisher, Signet Books, to print these novels under a pseudonym. In his introduction to The Bachman Books, King does state that Bachman was also an attempt to make sense out of his career and try to answer the question of whether his success was due to talent or luck. He says he deliberately released the Bachman novels with as little marketing presence as possible and did his best to "load the dice against" Bachman. King concludes that he has yet to find an answer to the "talent versus luck" question, as he felt that he was outed as Bachman too early to know. The Bachman book Thinner sold 28,000 copies during its initial run—and then ten times as many when it was revealed that Bachman was, in fact, King. The originally selected pseudonym was the name of
