Author’s name is Carrie King. She writes horror. So I checked out her author bio and found this:
“When people ask her if she’s related to Stephen King, she reminds them that King is a pseudonym, not his real name.”
Um…yeah. Sure.
I didn’t think they were related. I thought her name might be a pseudonym. Though it’s possible Ma and Pa King found baby name inspiration in his work, or it might have been a coincidence and got her interested in horror. Who knows. She’s certainly good at it, if that nightmare of a cover is anything to go by.
Yeah. I’ve heard “Stephen King” is the pseudonym of a guy supposedly born Stephen Edwin King.
Brad
5 years ago
Though it is rather wicked she’s using a title of King’s first book and his last (real!) name to ride his success. Good luck with that. And here I was going to try and find some good in this cover, but now the pseudonym and her claim Stephen King is not his real name just annoys me. Away with you, faker!
Gary
5 years ago
I am horrified. (Just not in the way the author intended.)
Let me know when you publish it! I’ll buy it — so long as you promise to buy my original works under their nom-de-plumes (sp?): “The Call of Ka-Thu-Loo” by London Jack and “The Magical Adventures of J.K.R.R. Martin Potter” by Huckleberry Clemens and Tom Twain! They’ll be ready once I do some Find and Replaces.
Brandon
5 years ago
I guess Stephen King’s not so talented sister can’t spell wicked.
Not cover related, but…
Author’s name is Carrie King. She writes horror. So I checked out her author bio and found this:
“When people ask her if she’s related to Stephen King, she reminds them that King is a pseudonym, not his real name.”
Um…yeah. Sure.
I didn’t think they were related. I thought her name might be a pseudonym. Though it’s possible Ma and Pa King found baby name inspiration in his work, or it might have been a coincidence and got her interested in horror. Who knows. She’s certainly good at it, if that nightmare of a cover is anything to go by.
Yeah. I’ve heard “Stephen King” is the pseudonym of a guy supposedly born Stephen Edwin King.
Though it is rather wicked she’s using a title of King’s first book and his last (real!) name to ride his success. Good luck with that. And here I was going to try and find some good in this cover, but now the pseudonym and her claim Stephen King is not his real name just annoys me. Away with you, faker!
I am horrified. (Just not in the way the author intended.)
Hang on while I write “The Hijacker’s Guide to the Ford Galaxy” under the name Dirk Adams, and see where I get.
Let me know when you publish it! I’ll buy it — so long as you promise to buy my original works under their nom-de-plumes (sp?): “The Call of Ka-Thu-Loo” by London Jack and “The Magical Adventures of J.K.R.R. Martin Potter” by Huckleberry Clemens and Tom Twain! They’ll be ready once I do some Find and Replaces.
I guess Stephen King’s not so talented sister can’t spell wicked.
My eyes! They BURN!!!! The fonts alone make me want to cry, all incestuously interwoven like that.
5 fonts, and weird ones at that, can make a person go blind when mishandled like that.