Can't help but think...

**jellydonut25** · August 4th, 2011

Reading The Wolves of the Calla, and at the beginning, I can't help but think to myself, "How is Stephen King going to add a full book in between this and Wizard and Glass??" I don't think the gap between the two is so large that there's a full book in there...Eddie himself says that absolutely nothing exciting happens between leaving the emerald palace and meeting the people of the calla, so how can he just plop something exciting in there without flying in the face of what's already been written??

**~Ally~** · August 4th, 2011

I'm really not sure how he will manage it--although in the DT Universe anything is possible--but I have no doubt he will do so successfully.

Are you re~reading the series or is this your first time? I'm simply asking in case people inadvertently reveal any spoilers in their suggestions of how this could be possible.

**JohnDalglish** · August 4th, 2011

Originally Posted by jellydonut25

Reading The Wolves of the Calla, and at the beginning, I can't help but think to myself, "How is Stephen King going to add a full book in between this and Wizard and Glass??" I don't think the gap between the two is so large that there's a full book in there...Eddie himself says that absolutely nothing exciting happens between leaving the emerald palace and meeting the people of the calla, so how can he just plop something exciting in there without flying in the face of what's already been written??

Hi,

I don't quite understand, are you suggesting that 'Wolves of the Calla' isn't exciting?

In which case, I strongly disagree.

Long days and pleasant nights

**Spideyman** · August 4th, 2011

From SK --- this should help explain the thought process of why The Wind Through The Keyhole fits between those two books:

Dear Constant Readers,

At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out November 8th), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and his ka-tet was told, but I realized there was at least one hole in the narrative progression: what happened to Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy between the time they leave the Emerald City (the end of Wizard and Glass) and the time we pick them up again, on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the beginning of Wolves of the Calla)?

There was a storm, I decided. One of sudden and vicious intensity. The kind to which billy-bumblers like Oy are particularly susceptible. Little by little, a story began to take shape. I saw a line of riders, one of them Roland’s old mate, Jamie DeCurry, emerging from clouds of alkali dust thrown by a high wind. I saw a severed head on a fencepost. I saw a swamp full of dangers and terrors. I saw just enough to want to see the rest. Long story short, I went back to visit an-tet with my friends for awhile. The result is a novel called The Wind Through the Keyhole. It’s finished, and I expect it will be published next year.

It won’t tell you much that’s new about Roland and his friends, but there’s a lot none of us knew about Mid-World, both past and present. The novel is shorter than DT 2-7, but quite a bit longer than the first volume—call this one DT-4.5. It’s not going to change anybody’s life, but God, I had fun.

-- Steve King

**dsurrett** · August 4th, 2011

King could write 400 pages between turning on the coffee pot and getting the morning paper off the porch and make it exciting.

**sam peebles** · August 4th, 2011

I don't think she's saying that Wolves isn't exciting, she's wondering how King can squeeze in Wind through the Keyhole between Wizard and Wolves, when Eddie himself is quoted as saying nothing interesting happened in the time when Wizard ends and Wolves picks up. And I think King has already answered this by saying the book will mostly involve Roland's earlier years, with Roland and Cuthbert hunting a werewolf (at least, that's the last I remember about it).

**JohnDalglish** · August 4th, 2011

Originally Posted by Spideyman

From SK --- this should help explain the thought process of why The Wind Through The Keyhole fits between those two books:

Dear Constant Readers,

At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out November 8th), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and his ka-tet was told, but I realized there was at least one hole in the narrative progression: what happened to Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy between the time they leave the Emerald City (the end of Wizard and Glass) and the time we pick them up again, on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the beginning of Wolves of the Calla)?

There was a storm, I decided. One of sudden and vicious intensity. The kind to which billy-bumblers like Oy are particularly susceptible. Little by little, a story began to take shape. I saw a line of riders, one of them Roland’s old mate, Jamie DeCurry, emerging from clouds of alkali dust thrown by a high wind. I saw a severed head on a fencepost. I saw a swamp full of dangers and terrors. I saw just enough to want to see the rest. Long story short, I went back to visit an-tet with my friends for awhile. The result is a novel called The Wind Through the Keyhole. It’s finished, and I expect it will be published next year.

It won’t tell you much that’s new about Roland and his friends, but there’s a lot none of us knew about Mid-World, both past and present. The novel is shorter than DT 2-7, but quite a bit longer than the first volume—call this one DT-4.5. It’s not going to change anybody’s life, but God, I had fun.

-- Steve King

Hi,

Thankee Spidey, my mouth is watering.

Long days and pleasant nights

**jellydonut25** · August 4th, 2011

Originally Posted by sam peebles

I don't think she's saying that Wolves isn't exciting, she's wondering how King can squeeze in Wind through the Keyhole between Wizard and Wolves, when Eddie himself is quoted as saying nothing interesting happened in the time when Wizard ends and Wolves picks up. And I think King has already answered this by saying the book will mostly involve Roland's earlier years, with Roland and Cuthbert hunting a werewolf (at least, that's the last I remember about it).

First off, HE. I'm a dude (or at least that's what I've always gotten the impression of when staring at myself naked).

Second off, more or less, yes that is what I'm saying.
At the beginning of Wolves, there is a chapter or so dedicated to Eddie being frustrated that time seems to have come to a halt. Every day for the gunslingers is the same. Travel is constant and uneventful. Then they meet the people of the Calla and time picks back up and things get exciting again.

It seems to me that when you have a character say/think "Absolutely nothing at all remotely worth noting has happened between point A (leaving the Emerald Palace) and point B (meeting the people of the Calla)" then writing a story set in that time would fly in the face of this thought/comment...

Also sam, I didn't think Wind through the Keyhole was about hunting a werewolf anymore...I thought that's what he said a while ago ("it will be about roland and cuthbert hunting a skin-man") but then later he said, no ("it will concern what happened to the ka-tet in between books 4 and 5")

my thought is:
How can you write a book about what happens between books four and five when one of the characters in question specifically remarks that nothing happened????