Funny moment with "Thinner"

[petalpea]

Last night I was all prepared to begin re-reading Thinner when my hubby picked it up.

"Who's this Richard Bachman?"

After explaining to him about it being SK's pen name he still didn't believe me. Apparently my hardback has no indication of it being by SK either ( which I did not notice until last night) he analyzed the cover jacket and told me I was nuts. His reasoning?

"Why would Stephen King dedicate a book to Claudia Inez Bachman???"

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing.

That made me chuckle a little. Well, mayhap you should just tell him he did that to throw suspicious people off.

Long days and pleasant nights.

[marew1]

Show your husband the main web site which shows all the novels written by Stephen King and Richard Bachman.

[Dani~]

I wonder who that dude on the back inside flap is? LOL I've always wondered that.

[Deavlynn]

ROFL that's awesome. I guess by the time I started reading the Bachman books the secret had long been outed so I never really thought about the dedications or the author's picture or bio on the books. That's really funny.

[DelvianBlue]

That is funny. I hadn't heard of Richard Bachman until after the secret was revealed so I lost out a little.

[Jasonbobdude]

That was exactly the point of the dedication, wasn't it?

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

Yes.

Because the Bachman Books were dedicated to people close to King and such, people got suspicious. Also because their writing styles were so similar.

And because King fans soon became Bachman fans before the secret was revealed and he knew this, so he pasted a fake author picture on the back of Thinner and dedicated it to Claudia Inez Bachman to try to throw them off.

It didn't help, needless to say.

Long days and pleasant nights

[TBlack]

I wonder who that dude on the back inside flap is? LOL I've always wondered that.

It was Stephens agent at the time. Mod may remember his name.

[Dani~]

In retrospect I really don't know how he thought he could get away with it, we all know there's only one man who can write like Stephen King.