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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Stephen King a.k.a. Richard Bachman????
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 06:52:50 EDT
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> Having just finished the book 'Thinner' by Richard Bachman, I am a bit
> puzzled by the small white wrapper which was around the book upon which
> was printed 'Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman'...

I've seen two articles in the past couple of months about this.  Seems
publishers don't like to carry too many titles by one author at a time;
makes them hard to promote, and apparently they'll sell more books if they
wring one dry before publishing the next one.  But Steven King is one
of the most prolific writers around today.  So he published a bunch of
books under the Bachman name.  He's gone public with it now, and I don't
think he'll write any more under that name.  The "author's picture" on
some books is some random guy from N.H., not named Bachman.

- Larry Campbell
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