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My collaboration with Stephen King
Feb. 7th, 2008 12:25 pmLast week I was contacted by a reader who loved DEVLIN'S HONOR... right up until page 376 which was curiously followed by pages from Stephen King's FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT. Not only did he miss the ending of DEVLIN'S HONOR, but instead of a preview for DEVLIN'S JUSTICE he got to see a preview of King's NEEDFUL THINGS.
This isn't the first time I've heard of this, but I've never seen a bad copy, nor have friends who helpfully checked out copies they've seen in stores. So I offered to swap him an autographed copy of DH for the bad copy and included a SASE with the autographed book. Today I received the bad copy in the mail, and yup, he's right, the last 16 pages of this book aren't mine, they're Stephen King's.
According to the title page this is the 5th printing, which I believe is the most recent printing. It's obvious that only some of the print run is bad since I've heard only scattered reports of problems, but whether it's a handful of copies or a significant percentage, I don't really have a good way to tell.
Strangely enough the last reader who e-mailed me said the the first 30 pages of his copy of DEVLIN'S HONOR were from a Stephen King book, and this book it's the end section that's misbound. The earlier reader also said it was a 5th edition, but he returned it to the bookstore for a new copy rather than mailing it to me, so I hadn't been able to confirm any problems until now.
This isn't the first time I've heard of this, but I've never seen a bad copy, nor have friends who helpfully checked out copies they've seen in stores. So I offered to swap him an autographed copy of DH for the bad copy and included a SASE with the autographed book. Today I received the bad copy in the mail, and yup, he's right, the last 16 pages of this book aren't mine, they're Stephen King's.
According to the title page this is the 5th printing, which I believe is the most recent printing. It's obvious that only some of the print run is bad since I've heard only scattered reports of problems, but whether it's a handful of copies or a significant percentage, I don't really have a good way to tell.
Strangely enough the last reader who e-mailed me said the the first 30 pages of his copy of DEVLIN'S HONOR were from a Stephen King book, and this book it's the end section that's misbound. The earlier reader also said it was a 5th edition, but he returned it to the bookstore for a new copy rather than mailing it to me, so I hadn't been able to confirm any problems until now.