I did that because back in the early days of my career there was a feeling in the publishing business that one book a year was all the public would accept but I think that a number of writers have disproved that by now. I'm one of them and the guy who writes the Along Came the Spider books is another one who's written two or three books a year. Danielle Steel usually publishes two books a year. So the public will accept more than one book from a writer in the course of a year. The thing is, one book is all most writers want to produce or can produce in the course of a year and some of them only publish a book every two years. Ed McBain is another novelist who publishes multiple books in some years and his original name was Evan Hunter. That's the name he's always published under and he adopted the pen name of Ed McBain for the same reason I adopted Richard Bachman and that was that it made it possible for me to do two books in one year. I just did them under different names and eventually the public got wise to this because you can change your name but you can't really disguise your style. The name Richard Bachman actually came from when they called me and said we're ready to go to press with this novel, what name shall we put on it? And I hadn't really thought about that. Well, I had, but the original name - Gus Pillsbury - had gotten out on the grapevine and I really didn't like it that much anyway, so they said they needed it right away and there was a novel by Richard Stark on my desk so I used the name Richard and that's kind of funny because Richard Stark is in itself a pen name for Donald Westlake and what was playing on the record player was "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by Bachman Turner Overdrive, so I put the two of them together and came up with Richard Bachman.
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Stephen King wrote books as Richard Bachman to experiment with writing different genres and styles outside of his typical Horror genre. He also wanted to see if his work would be successful based on its own merit rather than his established name as Stephen King.
There are two explanations.
1. He wanted to see if the success of his books was tied to his rising popularity. He published them under a pseudonym to see if he could be successful under another name.
2. Publishing standards at the time only allowed an author to publish a single book each year so he needed a pseudonym to release more novels.
7. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man, Thinner, The Regulators, and the most recently a skeleton King pulled out of the closet titled Blaze.
Yes. He has published 7 books using the Richard Bachman pseudonym.
King's best known pseudonym is Richard Bachman (used from 1977 to 1985), he did publish "The Fifth Quarter" in Cavalier Magazine using the name John Swithen in 1972. King's notes on this story, which is compiled in Nightmares And Dreamscapes, start with the statement "Bachman again" making it clear that the only pen name he considers legitimate is Richard Bachman.
Yes, Stephen King wrote "The Running Man" under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was first published in 1982.
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Stephen King used the pseudonym Richard Bachman to publish additional novels without oversaturating the market with his name. By writing under a different name, King wanted to see if his success was due to talent or just his well-known name.
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Richard Peck was inspired to write by the author Paul Zindel
Stephen King writes his books in his home office located in Bangor, Maine. He has described his writing process as disciplined and routine, often starting his day early and aiming for a specific word count goal.
"Stephen King WROTE" and he's written 53 books. Duma Key Carrie The Shining The Dark Tower series Cell etc.
Stephen Cosgrove is a children's book author best known for writing the "Serendipity" series of books. These books are known for their colorful illustrations and empowering messages for children. Some popular titles in the series include "Buttermilk Bear" and "Leo the Lop."
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From his head. King's pen name for 6 novels was Richard Bachman, aka his 'Dark Half', also a novel by King. He's a lot of different people caught in one body, like we all are, only he knows how to decipher them MUCH better than the everyday human. His modus operandi is Emotions, and how to describe them in explicit detail, which makes him so popular. When Stephen sees a man walking down the street he doesn't think about who the man is, but what the man does and what he's capable of. He thinks on and on, which makes him write on.... and on....and on, which is also what makes his so popular.
It's a long list, he's one of the most published authors. i would suggest that you check out his website for a complete list.