Editing Stephen King (section)

=== 2000s: ''On Writing'' to ''Under the Dome'' ===
[[File:StephenKingGFDL.PNG|thumb|King at the [[Harvard Book Store]], June 6, 2005]]
[[File:Stephen King, Comicon.jpg|thumb|King in 2007]]
In 2000, King published ''[[On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft|On Writing]]'', a mix of memoir and style manual which ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' called "a one-of-a-kind classic".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nolan |first=Tom |date=September 29, 2000 |title=Portrait of an Author |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970186662275614802}}</ref> Later that year he published ''[[Riding the Bullet]]'', "the world's first mass e-book, with more than 500,000 downloads". Inspired by its success, he began publishing an [[Epistolary novel|epistolary]] horror novel, ''[[The Plant (novel)|The Plant]]'', in online installments using the [[pay what you want]] method provided by [[Amazon.com]]'s Honor System.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://press.aboutamazon.com/2000/7/amazon-com-chosen-by-stephen-king-to-facilitate-payment-for-exclusive-serialized-online-novel-the-plant|title=Amazon.com Chosen by Stephen King to Facilitate Payment for Exclusive Serialized Online Novel, The Plant|date=July 24, 2000|website=US Press Center}}</ref> He suggested readers pay $1 per installment, and said he'd only continue publishing if 75% of readers paid.<ref name=":Dubner">{{Cite news |author=[[Stephen J. Dubner]] |date=August 13, 2000 |title=What Is Stephen King Trying To Prove? |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000813mag-king.html}}</ref> When ''The Plant'' folded, the public assumed that King had abandoned the project because sales were unsuccessful, but King later said he had simply run out of stories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://slashdot.org/features/00/11/30/1238204.shtml |title=Stephen King's Net Horror Story |publisher=Slashdot |date=December 4, 2000 |access-date=September 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502064223/http://slashdot.org/features/00/11/30/1238204.shtml |archive-date=May 2, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> The unfinished novel is still available from King's official site, now free. 

In 2002, King published ''[[From a Buick 8]]'', a return to the territory of ''Christine''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=From a Buick 8 |work=Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780743211376}}</ref> In 2005, he published the mystery ''[[The Colorado Kid]]'' for the [[Hard Case Crime]] imprint.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Keith |first=Phipps |date=October 12, 2005 |title=Stephen King: The Colorado Kid |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |url=https://www.avclub.com/stephen-king-the-colorado-kid-1798201135}}</ref> In 2006, he published ''[[Cell (novel)|Cell]],'' in which a mysterious signal broadcast over cell phones turns users into mindless killers. That same year, he published ''[[Lisey's Story]]'', about the widow of a novelist. He calls it his favorite of his novels, because "I've always felt that marriage creates its own secret world, and only in a long marriage can two people at least approach real knowledge about each other. I wanted to write about that, and felt that I actually got close to what I really wanted to say."<ref name=":ByTheBook" /> In 2007, King served as guest editor for the annual anthology ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=[[Best American Short Stories 2007]]|year=2007 |editor-last=King |editor-first=Stephen}}</ref>

In 2008, King published ''[[Duma Key]]'', his first novel set in Florida,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin|first=Janet |date=January 21, 2008 |title=Darkness in the Land of Steady Sunshine |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/books/21maslin.html}}</ref> and the collection ''[[Just After Sunset]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harrison |first=M. John |date=November 14, 2008 |title=My poisoned bon-bons |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/15/just-after-sunset-stephen-king}}</ref> In 2009, it was announced he would serve as a writer for ''[[Fangoria]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen King writes for FANGORIA! |url=http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/1-latest-news/3978-stephen-king-writes-for-fangoria.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925002142/http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/1-latest-news/3978-stephen-king-writes-for-fangoria.html |archive-date=September 25, 2009}}</ref> King's novel ''[[Under the Dome (novel)|Under the Dome]]'' was published later that year, and debuted at No. 1 on [[The New York Times Bestseller List|''The New York Times'' Bestseller List]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2009-11-29/hardcover-fiction/list.html|title=Best Sellers – The New York Times|date=November 29, 2009|access-date=March 20, 2011|first=Jennifer|last=Schuessler|newspaper=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511170235/http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2009-11-29/hardcover-fiction/list.html|archive-date=May 11, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Janet Maslin]] said of it, "Hard as this thing is to hoist, it's even harder to put down."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=November 11, 2009 |title=Stephen King's Latest Cast Feels Real |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/books/12book.html}}</ref>