King of Exchanges
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cyphomandraThank you for writing for me! I am very fond of Stephen King's works and am really looking forward to what you come up with. I am totally up for imitations of King's style as well as wildly different takes and AUs. For DNWs, no A/B/O or mpreg, and if earthquakes are included I would prefer them to be lightly alluded to rather than wallowed in. I would also prefer to avoid child death/harm outside of canon.
I have read all King’s novels except for Cell, Blaze, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Gwendy’s Button Box, Sleeping Beauties and the last third of Lisey’s Story (moved house, misplaced, will eventually get back to it). I wasn’t sure how to do this on sign up but am more than happy with crossovers with any of his other works.
Misery
Misery Chastain
Geoffrey Alliburton/Ian Carmichael/Misery Chastain
I love the book within the book, the gothic romance that Paul feels trapped by and yet is an ultimate salvation far more than Fast Cars would have been. I love the way it goes weird and over the top, and I love Misery herself. I’d be happy with anything in this - Misery as a child? Misery in the aftermath of Misery’s Return, dealing with her child and the two men who love her? Their next - even weirder - adventure? I am totally up for metafiction with Misery, her creator, her creator’s creator and any level of shenanigans between them all.
The Talisman
Jack Sawyer
Richard Sloat
Lily Cavanaugh
Wolf
The Talisman (Worldbuilding)
I love The Talisman despite and because of its flaws - when I did a ten week trip as a teenager it was one of the two books in English I took with me, and I still liked it at the end (I have only read the sequel once and I’m happy to forget it). I love the fantastic worldbuilding, from the tiny details (the money! the flying men!) to the greater (twinners, wolfs, the talisman itself and the black hotel) and the characters. Anything that pings that sense of the book would be great - a stolen moment from the book, the aftermath, many years down the track; I’ve nominated a bunch of characters and worldbuilding, because I couldn’t pick, but any two of them interacting would be fantastic.
The Breathing Method
Stevens
The same mysterious club, and its butler, feature in this and in The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, and really I’m up for anything. Who goes to the club on the other nights? Who, or what, is Stevens? (and why the echo of the author’s name?) Who looks after the library of books that exist nowhere outside? What other unfamiliar things are waiting in all those other rooms? Go wild!
I have read all King’s novels except for Cell, Blaze, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Gwendy’s Button Box, Sleeping Beauties and the last third of Lisey’s Story (moved house, misplaced, will eventually get back to it). I wasn’t sure how to do this on sign up but am more than happy with crossovers with any of his other works.
Misery
Misery Chastain
Geoffrey Alliburton/Ian Carmichael/Misery Chastain
I love the book within the book, the gothic romance that Paul feels trapped by and yet is an ultimate salvation far more than Fast Cars would have been. I love the way it goes weird and over the top, and I love Misery herself. I’d be happy with anything in this - Misery as a child? Misery in the aftermath of Misery’s Return, dealing with her child and the two men who love her? Their next - even weirder - adventure? I am totally up for metafiction with Misery, her creator, her creator’s creator and any level of shenanigans between them all.
The Talisman
Jack Sawyer
Richard Sloat
Lily Cavanaugh
Wolf
The Talisman (Worldbuilding)
I love The Talisman despite and because of its flaws - when I did a ten week trip as a teenager it was one of the two books in English I took with me, and I still liked it at the end (I have only read the sequel once and I’m happy to forget it). I love the fantastic worldbuilding, from the tiny details (the money! the flying men!) to the greater (twinners, wolfs, the talisman itself and the black hotel) and the characters. Anything that pings that sense of the book would be great - a stolen moment from the book, the aftermath, many years down the track; I’ve nominated a bunch of characters and worldbuilding, because I couldn’t pick, but any two of them interacting would be fantastic.
The Breathing Method
Stevens
The same mysterious club, and its butler, feature in this and in The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, and really I’m up for anything. Who goes to the club on the other nights? Who, or what, is Stevens? (and why the echo of the author’s name?) Who looks after the library of books that exist nowhere outside? What other unfamiliar things are waiting in all those other rooms? Go wild!
