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Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King

Posted by samzenpus on from the ask-me-anything dept.

cartechboy writes "Stephen King has sold more than 300 million books of horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. The guy has written so many works, and words, that he actually needs a "continuity adviser" to fact check him when he picks old stories up as a new book. Enter Rocky Wood — who is the world-wide leading expert on Stephen King's work. So much so, that King hired Wood (who has authored a 6000+ page encyclopedia on CD-ROM on every single aspect of King's work — including 26,000 different King characters) to fact check himself when he writes."

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  1. I sense an opportunity by djupedal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I need to become the world-wide leading expert on Rocky Wood's body of work...

  2. Re:The continuity adviser is not doing his job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should read his next book, it's about how Israeli plants high-up in the American government exercise the Sampson option by sending the United States into war with Syria in the Middle-East, only to be stopped by the leader of Russia. It's called Checkmate, available on newsstands today!

  3. If you can't beat them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    See, this is exactly what celebrities need to do. Don't antagonize and arrest your stalkers, employ them!

    1. Re:If you can't beat them by LittleBigScript · · Score: 3, Funny

      Misery loves company. And hammers.

  4. See by Anarchduke · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they said being an obsessive stalker would never pay off!

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    who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
  5. Re:26k characters? by LMariachi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Randall Flagg from The Stand and The Dark Tower series is suggested to be the demon(s) Legion that Jesus exorcised into a herd of pigs which subsequently ran off a cliff into the sea.

    “My name is Legion, for we are many.” - Mark 5:9

    So that could account for a whole shitload of characters in just that one guy.

  6. And his next book is about... uh... by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...a lamp monster! Ooo-oooh!

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  7. Re:from the wired article: by drkim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woods was actually the one who rescued King after the car crash, and even took King home to recover in his house; but he was already a huge fan.

    King had to give him the 'continuity job' or Wood would have cut off his foot with an axe.

  8. Re:The continuity adviser is not doing his job by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should read his next book, it's about how Israeli plants high-up in the American government exercise the Sampson option by sending the United States into war with Syria in the Middle-East, only to be stopped by the leader of Russia. It's called Checkmate, available on newsstands today!

    It's like the inverse of a Tom Clancy novel!