{"id":6989,"date":"2009-11-25T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2009-11-25T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T14:17:05","slug":"king-considering-shining-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/king-considering-shining-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"King considering Shining sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/shining-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6991\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"shining-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/shining-4-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"shining-4\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/shining-4-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/shining-4.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Stephen King has announced that he is working on a sequel to his bestselling novel The Shining, while promoting his latest release, Under The Dome.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a crowd at the Canon Theatre in Toronto, the 62-year-old author said that he had been thinking about the plot since last summer. The plot would follow the original protagonist from The Shining, Danny Torrance, now 40 and working as an orderly in a hospice for the mentally ill. His purpose for this is visiting patients about to die, and helping their transition using his unique abilities.<\/p>\n<p>After he made the announcement however, King was keen to stress that his plans weren&#8217;t set in concrete, and although he was actively planning the novel it wasn&#8217;t a certainty that he would actually sit down to complete it. \u201cMaybe if I keep talking about it I won\u2019t have to write it,\u201d he said, quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/books.torontoist.com\/2009\/11\/stephen-king-planning-possible-sequel-to-the-shining\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Torontoist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>King&#8217;s latest novel is available through Hodder And Stoughton, priced at \u00a319.99 in hardback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Sleep takes place years after original novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[608,1190],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}