Great time to be a fan.

**JoeSherry** · October 29th, 2009

It's unbelievable how much Mr King is releasing.. After just getting a brand new poem in Playboy, we get a new Castle Rock story in the New Yorker, and Under The Dome less than a week later. I'm so glad he retired a few years ago, it seems to have done wonders to his output. I thought he was prolific in the 80's....

**Tiberius** · October 29th, 2009

and the comics coming out very soon add to that list.

But when did he officially retire?

**bopropadop** · October 29th, 2009

Ridin' the wave and lovin' every minute of it!

**Matthew.Degnan** · October 29th, 2009

sk has said he is going to retire so many times its lost all meaning haha lol

**Srbo** · October 29th, 2009

What a restless retiree...

**psj77** · October 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by Matthew.Degnan

sk has said he is going to retire so many times its lost all meaning haha lol

I think he's part pro wrestler. They retire at the start of a show & then they're wrestling in the main event of the same show.

**kingricefan** · October 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by Matthew.Degnan

sk has said he is going to retire so many times its lost all meaning haha lol

Kinda like a Rolling Stone's farewell tour, right???

**Mr Nobody** · October 29th, 2009

Did he actually say (or mean) fully retire? I thought he only meant 'semi-retirement'...or just slowing down a lot (which still means he'd produce more in 12 months than other writers do in 12 years).
Or, according to the blurb, UTD was 30 years in the writing, meaning a lot of it would be revised from a previous form rather than written over a certain period of time (months, or a couple of years, as seems to be the case with most of his earlier stuff). So maybe that means he's also just clearing the 'unpublished back catalogue' - sort of like Mike Noonan did in Bag of Bones.