If the large commercial presses won't take up the slack, the small presses will. One mainstream publishing line singled out is the New York City-based independent mass market publisher Dorchester Publishing and its Leisure Books imprint, headed by editor Don D'Auria, who was given a special award by the International Horror Guild for his marketing efforts. And it's doing very well. Leisure's new line of horror books has 18 titles in the publishing pipeline for this year, with more to come. The demand has always been there.
People are really hungry for good horror fiction.
Shindler is a freelance writer based in Denver . King said he will provide more precise figures on downloads of the Plant on July 31. It now looks as though people will. However, King seemed quite happy with the initial response and said he plans to give more information on downloads after the book has been available for a week. This experiment seems to be working.