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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!

  4. Re:The continuity adviser is not doing his job by F.Ultra · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not like he didn't warn you, but you didn't care for the dire warning at the end did you.

  5. 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.