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elfsAt the grocery store last night I passed by a display of books, one of which is Blaze, by Richard Bachman. The author's name is in a big size, probably 48 point, and at the bottom it reads "With an introduction by Stephen King," and King's name is somewhere around 42 point, nearly as big.
I laughed. Does anyone out there not know that Richard Bachman is Stephen King? That the book Different Season was basically an "outing" of King as Bachman? I have trouble understanding why they're trying to sell this book as anything other than a Stephen King novel. I'm not even a King fan and I know this whole relationship. (Then again, I seemed to know that A.N. Roquelare was Anne Rice almost five years before the Beauty series was republished under Rice's name; Rice had admitted it in an obscure erotica writer's magazine about the time Lestat was hitting the shelves but the mainstream press seems to have missed it.)
From the Stephen King FAQ: Why did you write books as Richard Bachman?
I laughed. Does anyone out there not know that Richard Bachman is Stephen King? That the book Different Season was basically an "outing" of King as Bachman? I have trouble understanding why they're trying to sell this book as anything other than a Stephen King novel. I'm not even a King fan and I know this whole relationship. (Then again, I seemed to know that A.N. Roquelare was Anne Rice almost five years before the Beauty series was republished under Rice's name; Rice had admitted it in an obscure erotica writer's magazine about the time Lestat was hitting the shelves but the mainstream press seems to have missed it.)
From the Stephen King FAQ: Why did you write books as Richard Bachman?
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Amazon sheds some light
Date: 2007-07-17 05:43 pm (UTC)Looks like Blaze is a 1973 novel; having been issued under the Bachman name, I suppose there may be reasons not to re-release it with a different name.
The cover of the version for sale on Amazon at that URL actually has "KING" in much larger type than "BACHMAN."
The Amazon reviews suggest that King's introduction admits it's his book, but I dunno.
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