Roadwork bachman7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() And since nearly every other King title has already been claimed, it looks like Roadwork will finally have its day on the big screen. It's not the most well-known King work, but Hollywood is in the midst of a King adaptation renaissance. One of the original Bachman books was Roadwork, published in 1981. King proceeded to "kill off" Bachman, but would later resurrect him for two more novels – The Regulators in 1996, and Blaze in 2007. It was in '84 that King was outed as Bachman by a bookstore clerk who noticed King and Bachman had similar writing styles. Writing under the Bachman name enabled King to publish more than one book a year, which he did until 1984. He's constantly writing, and rather than sit around and wait for a year to pass before he could publish something new, King decided to create a pseudonym – Richard Bachman. Most writers were fine with this, but as any King reader knows, the man is nothing if not prolific. ![]() ![]() When Stephen King first got his start as a novelist, the publishing industry was hesitant to publish more than one book from an author per year. ![]()
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