Author of The Ultimate Stephen King Quiz Book, out now on Amazon + Barnes & Noble! Also YouTuber, dad, husband, metal fan, tea drinker & half of
@chapter19band
It's fairly well know that
@StephenKing
used to keep his rejection letters on a spike in his wall. As I try to write more, and maybe get some bits published, I wanted to start my own virtual rejections spike here...
25 years ago today,
@StephenKing
was hit by a minivan while out walking & almost killed. Thankfully, he survived!
I thought I’d celebrate his continued existence with a song picking out some of my favourite post-accident King works. Here’s to loads more years, Sai King!
On this day in 1999, the world almost lost
@stephenking
when he was knocked down by a minivan while out walking.
Thankfully, he recovered and has been pretty in the 24 years since.
Here’s to many, many more years Sai King! (No apologies at all for the music choice here!)
The man in black fled across the desert…
On this day in 1982,
@StephenKing
’s The Gunslinger was published as a novel for the first time, limited (initially) to just 10,000 copies.
Big day for Dark Tower fans - are you one of them?
Lyrics are in the alt text if you’re interested 😊
If
@StephenKing
watches this, hopefully he’ll appreciate the power chords and not simply wish that he’d died so he never had to hear this 😂
Happy third birthday to Later, released by
@StephenKing
on this day in 2021, his third novel published on the
@HardCaseCrime
imprint, after The Colorado Kid (2005) and Joyland (2013).
I read this in one sitting when it first came out and like it plenty - are you a fan?
Happy birthday Christine! First released on this day in 1983, she’s hit the big 4-0 today. Does that make her a classic? I don’t know cars…
Anyway, many happy returns to everyone’s favourite, terrifying, Plymouth.
Are you a fan of Christine?
Happy birthday to Skeleton Crew!
@StephenKing
’s second short story collection was first released on this day in 1985 & contains some all-time classics: The Mist, The Raft, The Jaunt and more!
What’s your favourite tale from Skeleton Crew?
The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed.
40 years ago today, part 1 of
@StephenKing
’s epic saga The Dark Tower was released to the world
A big day for Constant Readers everywhere…
Today marks 50 years since
@StephenKing
’s debut novel, Carrie, was first published!
Still a terrific & vital read all these years later, congratulations on the half century Mr King!
It’s the beginning of the end…of the world.
On 13 June in
@StephenKing
’s The Stand, at 2:37:16am an incident occurred at a California army base & Captain Trips got out…and so did Campion! Uh oh! Watch out world! 🤧
Also, check out those 19s - 13/06 and 2+3+7+1+6…nice work!
Happy birthday to The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix - part 4 of The Green Mile which was first released by
@StephenKing
on this day in 1996 🎉
Which is your favourite part of this story?
Happy 10th birthday to Mr Mercedes, which first revved into our bookstores on this day in 2014. I really enjoyed this one - especially that opening!
Are you a fan of
@StephenKing
doing some hard-boiled crime?
We are *super* excited to announce that
@davemusson
is joining The Access Platform team as our Head of Community and Content! 📝 We're big fans of Dave's work so we're delighted he'll be joining us 🎉
#hesm
#hesmuk
#highered
Happy birthday to Finders Keepers! The second book in the Bill Hodges/Mr Mercedes trilogy was first released by
@StephenKing
on this day in 2015.
Have you read it? Are you a fan?
Another
@StephenKing
book anniversary today, although this one didn’t have his name on it originally…
Roadwork, the third novel by Richard Bachman, was first released on this day in 1981. Of course, even though it said Bachman on the cover, it was all King really!
Happy birthday to the revised edition of The Gunslinger, first released on this day by
@StephenKing
in 2003 and ensuring that everything in the Dark Tower runs smoothly from front to back!
Do you prefer this or the original?
Happy birthday to Joyland, first published by
@StephenKing
via
@HardCaseCrime
on this day in 2013!
Also, happy birthday to King’s eldest son, the excellent author
@joe_hill
🎉🎉
To mark the end of 2018, I present the following thread on behalf of my doggo Floyd.
Here’s how the year planned out for him, a year where he nailed posing like a cutie
Someone just slid up to me and asked ‘are you Bantshire?’ and now I feel like I’m in MI5 or something.
@BantshireUni
- you being here at
#ContentEd19
is only fuelling the fire (if indeed you *are* here)
Despite the lads not getting the result I wanted, I was incredibly proud to launch my
@CoventryBearsRL
book today & hand a copy to
@CoventryBear
- he couldn’t have been more supportive of all my Bears shenanigans 🐻🏉🤘
Happy 49th birthday to Carrie, first released on this day in 1974. And the rest, for
@StephenKing
of course, was history!
What sort of thing would you like to see this time next year to mark Carrie’s half century?
Happy 47th birthday to ‘Salem’s Lot - released on this day in 1975.
@StephenKing
’s second release and still one of his very best, an absolutely chilling classic.
Are you a fan?
Two book anniversaries today 🎉🎉
Misery was first published 8 June 1987
Song of Susannah was first published 8 June 2004
Are you fan of either? Or both? And how much do you love the HUNKY
@StephenKing
on the fake cover for Misery’s Return? 😍😂
I finally made a bookshelf tour for my YouTube channel - feeling qualified as a ‘proper’ booktuber now 😊
Let me show you round my
@StephenKing
collection here:
Big one on my YouTube channel today…my overall ranking of
@StephenKing
’s *entire* bibliography!
Watch:
What are your favourite and least favourite King books?
Happy sort-of birthday to The Eyes of the Dragon - a
@StephenKing
fantasy novel that he first wrote for his daughter. It got a mass-market paperback release for this time on this day in 1987, around three years after it had a very limited and very expensive hardback version.
🐲
What did you do at work today? I got to attend the opening of a brand new University and tell Ryan Giggs about my latest podcast. Life, eh? Funny, isn’t it?
Thanks for the invite
@UA92MCR
- best of luck for the start of term!
34) All We Love We Leave Behind by
@Convergecult
- I don’t listen to Converge anywhere near as much as I should. This album is fantastic, great thrust and rumble and keeps you hooked throughout
Proud personal thing 👇
I’m the new League features columnist for the excellent
@Forty20magazine
and my first effort is in the newest edition 😊
Thanks so much to
@scratchingshed2
for asking me to be part of the team - I’m honoured!
Happy anniversary to Coffey’s Hands - part 3 of The Green Mile, which was originally released by
@StephenKing
on this day in 1996.
Are you a fan? Would you like another serialised novel from Sai King? I know I would!
Season 1 of my podcast Constant Writers wrapped today & went out in style. I was joined by the magnificent
@BevVincent
to talk about his own brilliant work and, of course, that
@StephenKing
fella - including how Bev got to finish the Dark Tower way before anyone else 🧵
Happy publication day to
@StephenKing
and his new collection of stories, You Like It Darker 🎉🎉
I’m two down already and having a great time - here’s my
@HodderBooks
Independent Bookshop Edition 😍
Music is peppered throughout
@StephenKing
’s work - especially Christine. But, he’s also inspired plenty of great songs.
In my latest YouTube I round up a dozen of King-influenced tunes - check it out
Happy birthday to Cycle of the Werewolf, first given a wide release on this day in 1985 🎉
Originally, this was going to be
@StephenKing
words on a calendar, but it grew into a novella. Incredible Berni Wrightson artwork too - including the peachiest werewolf bum ever seen!
So, today is something of an unhappy anniversary for me...a year ago, I travelled to London to meet with my then-boss for what was in my calendar as a podcast recording & planning session for 2019.
It wasn't. Instead, we sat down and I was given my notice
A year ago today I dropped my hours to four days a week so I could have Wednesdays with my boy...best career decision ever, even in a pandemic year! Thanks to
@TAPlatform
for supporting my wishes and all the bonus cuddles I’ve had since 💚
I’m terrible at this kind of stuff, but...
I’VE WRITTEN A BOOK! It’s all about the
@CoventryBearsRL
’s 20th anniversary season & all profits are being split between the Bears &
@RLCares
👌
I’m very proud of it & would love you to buy a copy 👇
Did I mention I've written a book? Well, I have! It's all about the
@CoventryBearsRL
's 20th anniversary season & I'm very pleased with it - there's even a foreword from
@DaveWoodsSport
! All profits will be split between the Bears &
@RLCares
Order now:
Happy fourth birthday to If It Bleeds 🎉 first released by
@StephenKing
on this day in 2020, featuring 4 novellas
📱Mr Harrigan’s Phone
🕺The Life of Chuck
🩸If It Bleeds
🐀 Rat
Which is your favourite?
Don’t let anyone tell you there is a “correct” number of times your brand should post to social media each day. Post when you have content worth posting. Everything else is just noise.
#hesm
#casesmc
Also, to everyone who reached out to me and had my back when all this happened a year ago...THANK YOU. It is not, and never will be, forgotten.
So, happy anniversary to me - onwards and upwards!
Day 4 of
#AdventBears
and it’s time for another ’30 seconds with…’ video - this time, we meet our record try scorer
@haydenfreeman5
He’s ready
#ForTheNext
chance to score even more tries in 2019 - are you?
So, last night I filled in doing the
@CoventryBearsRL
stadium announcements, which meant all the music was bangers 🤘
For instance...a bit of
@MILKTEETHPUNX
in the half time sunshine
Well, that was a fun few hours - hi to all of my new followers👋
If you’re a Constant Reader like me (and I’m guessing you are) you might like…
My
@StephenKing
themed YouTube channel:
The King quiz book I wrote:
I would never have thought I’d be this happy and positive after seeing my team lose 90-0, but the
@CoventryBearsRL
we’re a credit to themselves and Midlands RL today - here’s our latest podcast
Here’s our brand new episode to round off this run, featuring a bit of chat, thoughts of
@tomtsang13
+ plenty of optimism 👍
Direct 🏉
@ApplePodcasts
🍎
@YouTube
🎥
New episode of my new podcast out today and I’m joined by
@JPellegrini1983
to talk about his work and about
@StephenKing
- specifically Salem’s Lot 👌 links in the thread…
Did somebody say podcast??
Our brand new show - Inspiration on TAP - launches this Thursday and our first guest is the awesome
@EricStoller
👌
Check out our trailer
Happy second birthday to If It Bleeds - a collection of four stories from
@StephenKing
that helped brighten up the early days of the pandemic…released on this day in 2020
No, thank YOU
@blackpeaks
for being such a fantastic band AND making awesome t-shirts in colours that aren’t just black...see you in Birmingham in October 🤘
Bloody love
@MILKTEETHPUNX
too - here’s some snaps of them also from
@craufurdarmsmk
tonight capping a bill that showed why genre is pointless if every band playing is awesome