Hi everyone,

Stephen King has just purchased a home at 1600 N. Casey Key Road in
Palmer's Northerly Subdivision of Park of Casey Key. King paid a
reported $8.9 million for the property.

You can read the full report at the link below (You may have to cut
and paste this into your browser due to the length)

http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/050801/tp2ew6.htm?
date=050801&story=tp2ew6.htm

This article has a picture of the house:

http://www.newscoast.com/2news.cfm?ID=45193

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From King's website: No decision has been made yet about a winner of
the writing exercise outlined in On Writing. We are still going
through all of the entries and do not expect to pick a winner until
this Fall.

http://www.stephenking.com

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Also from King's Website: Although a film titled Insomnia starring Al
Pacino is currently in production, it is not based on Stephen's book
of the same name.

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Some of you will have noticed that the links to Riding the bullet &
other 'online' books have been removed. This is because Softlook has
ceased its online commerce operations.

I'm not that happy this has mainly because I'm still owed quite a few
$ from them, so if anyone has ideas for other King related material
to fill in the spaces left, then please email me.

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Mick Garris has commented on the upcoming 'The Talisman' mini-
series: "Yes, TALISMAN is real. The deal was just made. It's with
DreamWorks, Kennedy-Marshall, and ABC. Don't know when, since the
strikes might happen, but I'm about to begin the script, working from
the feature draft by Richard LaGravenese. No cast yet."

Sounds interesting...

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That's in for this newsletter. Dont forget to let me know if you hear
any interesting King info.

Regards
David
http://www.horrorking.com