Stephen King Erotica

[Wayne C. Rogers]

Truth be told, Tabitha is the one in the family who really lets go with the adult scenes in her novels. Steve has always held back for the most part because I think strong sex scenes usually take away from the type of story he writes. As for writing an erotic novel, there isn't much money to be made in it since the Internet came about. The pay is about the same as it was forty years ago, which wasn't that much to begin with. Financially, it would be a waste of King's time. Of course, if he wrote one and used his own name, the book would be an instant bestseller, but I think he'd probably opt for a pseudonym. Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" series didn't really sell until it became known that she was the actual author. I can't think of too many other erotic novels which have sold well, other than Topping From Below by Laura Reese and her second novel, plus The Story of O, and Nine-and-a-Half Weeks. As you can tell, it's the female authors who seem to hit the big time with their eroticism. Steve can really make more money off of a short story than he would off of an erotic novel written under a different name. Man, I remember the "Longarm" western series. That was back during the seventies. I think the authors writing under the Tabor Evans pseudonym made between fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars off of each book. That's not a lot for a novel nowadays. Like some of the other readers have posted, it's best if Steve stays with horror and dark suspense fiction. That is his gift in writing.

[Agincourt Concierge]

Blasphemy I tell you ..... Let Mr. King do what he does best......... leave the erotica to Anais Nin , Pauline Reage, & Leopold von Sacher-Masoch...

[wally wonder]

....and there's those scenes of scott and lisey, chasin each other round the room, in their lederhosen....some kind of prussian longjohns i believe...

in that piece in secret windows, 'a night at the royal festival hall: muriel gray interviews stephen king', must be in front of an audience...mg:'somebody says here, 'how do you feel about sex on the page?'
sk: 'i prefer it in bed.'

sounds like peter and stephen were at a convention and peter said, 'stevie hasn't discovered sex!'

stephen says well he had, but hadn't anything to say on the subject, it didn't form a part of any story he had to tell...but dead zone could have had a scene in it, if he had wanted one...mg talks about bones, how the scenes divide themselves down the middle....

there's a hot and steamy visual, misery's return, somewhere around here...place where you can buy stuff, but that misery's return visual...that you might want to take a look at, maybe get an idea of a cover....would we want that?....here's a link: http://shop.cafepress.com/stephen-king?page=8 by paul sheldon....okay, so now i have an image of annie wilkes in lederhosen...this is not good....and she's riding her lawn mower...that one at the site says they are greeting cards....might want to check it out...wouldn't that be something if sk had this other life...the romance writer...spooky....

[Dances_in_Underwear]

It was quite some time ago that he did the interview, but he once mentioned that he had tried writing erotic stories (before he'd published Carrie, I believe) because there was a strong market for them at that time, but he just couldn't do it--it didn't feel like it was coming out as believable to him--so gave up on that idea. I think that if he thought that had changed or he was interested in writing in that genre, he'd be doing so.

Okay, I see what you mean. But what if Stephen King wrote a novel that expanded on some of the sex scenes he's already written in his novels? I don't know. Maybe the cheese stands alone on this one. But I love it when he writes those types of things.

[Chelle71]

The sex scenes amongst the horror make the horror a little easier to cope with! He is great at writing sex but some how a whole sexy romantic book just wouldn't be SK...

[SharonC]

I rather like SK's vampires to be scary not "sparkley".

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Well, quite apart from Wizard and Glass, I read both Bag of Bones and Lisey's Story as largely love stories.

Long days and pleasant nights

[LadyPain]

....and there's those scenes of scott and lisey, chasin each other round the room, in their lederhosen....some kind of prussian longjohns i believe...

in that piece in secret windows, 'a night at the royal festival hall: muriel gray interviews stephen king', must be in front of an audience...mg:'somebody says here, 'how do you feel about sex on the page?'
sk: 'i prefer it in bed.'

sounds like peter and stephen were at a convention and peter said, 'stevie hasn't discovered sex!'

stephen says well he had, but hadn't anything to say on the subject, it didn't form a part of any story he had to tell...but dead zone could have had a scene in it, if he had wanted one...mg talks about bones, how the scenes divide themselves down the middle....

there's a hot and steamy visual, misery's return, somewhere around here...place where you can buy stuff, but that misery's return visual...that you might want to take a look at, maybe get an idea of a cover....would we want that?....here's a link: http://shop.cafepress.com/stephen-king?page=8 by paul sheldon....okay, so now i have an image of annie wilkes in lederhosen...this is not good....and she's riding her lawn mower...that one at the site says they are greeting cards....might want to check it out...wouldn't that be something if sk had this other life...the romance writer...spooky....

Lederhosen are leather shorts... you'd see a lot of them if you went to Oktoberfest in some parts of Europe...

*giggles*

When I met my husband, he had a pair but he wouldn't wear them. They were from when he was a teen and got dragged to Oktoberfest by his folks.