Thursday, July 26, 2007

Operation Trust Stephen King w/ Your Reading Future

I was reading a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, the one where Stephen King praises a new author’s book and laments its ending, and talks about saying goodbye to characters you love.  He was also talking about saying goodbye to Harry Potter, a series of books that will probably never be surpassed in a pop culture event way.  The midnight releases, the parties, the adults devouring supposed children’s books, even though we all know they weren’t written for children.  However, it’s good to know that there will always be books worth waiting for, even if it’ll never be another Harry Potter book.  Stephen King raves about Lauren Groff‘s first novel, The Monsters of Templeton.  I’m sure Stephen will forgive me if I quote liberally from his column.  At least I hope so.  “I’m having a day of mixed feelings: happy because I’m reading the manuscript of a novel that’s full of magic, mystery, and monsters; sad because it will be finished tomorrow and on my shelf, with all its secrets told and its surviving characters set free to live their own lives (if characters have lives beyond the end of a novel — I’ve always felt they do). It’s called The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff, and it will be published early next year. Admit it, he has you hooked already, huh?  And he continues on, “The sense of sadness I feel at the approaching end of The Monsters of Templeton isn’t just because the story’s going to be over; when you read a good one — and this is a very good one — those feelings are deepened by the realization that you probably won’t tie into anything that much fun again for a long time.”

pre-order for a February 5, 2008 release date

Dear blogging friends, the author that Stephen King so loves, is not the #1 search result for her own name.  I want to try a quick-fix of that situation.  Let’s show her web person that it can be done...and it can even be done the hard way, by not touching the website itself.  If you could do me a favor, in one of your next blog entries, say a couple o’ words about The Monsters of Templeton author, Lauren Groff, and then hyperlink her name to http://www.laurengroff.com - I’d much appreciate it.

Here’s Stephen King’s review of the novel too.
”Lauren Groff’s debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more. Willie is a funny, sexy, plucky, heroine; her Mom—a once-upon-a-time hippie who’s gone Baptist but not square—is a hoot; her family history is a funhouse through which Willie must wander in order to find her father. Best of all is Templeton, a town that will remind readers of Ray Bradbury at his most magical. There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne’er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that.” --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

I don’t think I’m going to win any awards for style with this blog entry, but we’re going for complete function today.  Plus, it’s 6am and I’ve had a long long day, and I need to get some sleep.  Maybe I’ll come back and pretty this baby up.

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