Then life, inspiration, reticence to reveal and thereon judged (by self, if immune to criticism of the general public by this time) - perhaps a small incidence of writer's block? - got in the way, and it's 16 years before Stephen King picks of the tale, but the gap is hardly noticed; once the story resumes, as we knew all along it would - he would never ask a riddle without solving it - we were all right back aboard Blaine the Mono for the end of the ride, and the beginning of a mad rush to climax - but not until life pulls some more surprises for the author and the loyal reader...
copyright 1997
published by PLUME, an imprint of Dutton Signet, a member of Putnam Penguin, Inc.
a hardcover limited edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
First PLUME printing, November 1997
signed/dated to the Archives 12/2/97; completed first reading Sun, 97.1214, 16:15h