A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs.
Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine – as the truth emerges in shock waves that only Stephen King could create and a blast of revelation that will truly blow your mind. Is Coffey the devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Here guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. Now, for the first time, all six exciting parts come together in one volume to let you enjoy Stephen King’s masterpiece uninterrupted, from gripping opening to shattering climax.Īt Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic “Billy the Kid” Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in “Old Sparky”. Or I can use Zoom to make presentations to distant groups.When Stephen King issued his New York Times bestselling novel The Green Mile in monthly installments, millions of hooked readers anxiously waited each cliff-hanging episode. I am based in Madison, Wisconsin, but can travel under the right circumstances. If they never read historical fiction, this is their perfect introduction to the beauty, and the value, of the genre.īesides simple word of mouth, I need your help in finding book clubs, book stores, and libraries where I might make a presentation and perhaps sell a few books. If they enjoy historical fiction, this is an excellent specimen. Don’t just buy and read it yourself, but also please mention it to every intelligent reader you know. So here’s the deal, Friend: I need your help to make Price of Passage a wildly successful book. You might even say that my book, though published under a traditional contract by a traditional publisher, is essentially, in some way, a vanity proposition. So you might say this “Literary Lion” thing is a mere ego trip. I do not fall into the Stephen King category.
Photo by Kevin Pluck, licensed under CC BY 2.0 Only established authors, represented by New York agents and published by the Big Four, dare hope to make enough in royalties to cover the cost of incidental writing expenses (conferences and such), let alone repay the time and effort they put into their work. “Profit” is a word that a novice book writer is not justified in breathing. My publisher-Noble Creature though he is!-did not get into it solely for cheap thrills. It relies on income from books sold to make it all worthwhile. Publishing, Gentle Reader, is a business. It’s hard to express how gratifying that will be. If you read this blog regularly, you already know about the ups and downs, the travails and triumphs, of that journey.Ī big victory is scheduled for eleven days from now, when my debut historical novel, Price of Passage: A Tale of Immigration and Liberation, will be published. More than six years ago, I set out to become a serious writer.
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