Stephen King
February 3, 2009

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In a recent interview with USA Today weekend edition, King compares Meyer’s writing skills with those of J.K. Rowling’s. And the way he sees it, Meyer’s just doesn’t do it for him like Rowling’s does..
He says, “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” “People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because it’s not overtly sexual.”
He further explains, “A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.”
Hmmm, Stephen seems to know adolescent girls pretty well! A little creepy! And we’re sure a lot of people out there are going to go ahead and disagree with him! He’s barking up the wrong tween market tree!
February 27, 2008

Broadway shows are supposed to be about escapism and fun. But with Stephen King as the writer of a new musical, things might get a little scary. King, who has written numerous best-selling novels, has written the script for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.
The music for the show is all by John Mellencamp. The story is set in the fictional town of Lake Belle Reve, Miss., and centers on the deaths in 1957 of two brothers and a young girl and the legend that grows out of the tragedy. The play will open at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre in April 2009, with hopes for Broadway. The Alliance, which announced the project on Tuesday, described it as ''a sultry Southern gothic mystery with a blues-tinged, guitar-driven score."
These two guys are massive talents, who come from very different backgrounds. It sounds like they're trying to take the traditional Broadway show and revamp it. Sounds cool!
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