Lisey's Story by Stephen King, ©2006, Pocket Books, $9.99, 653pgs.  
 
        Lisey's Story starts with the novel's protagonist Lisey Landon cleaning out the office of her dead husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Landon, with the help of her sister Amanda. 
        From there on , the novel jumps around quite a bit as we learn more about the lives of Scott and Lisey Landon--Lisey, 'rhymes with CeeCee' is childhood nickname.
        We discover more about Scott's childhood, spent with his father and his beloved brother Paul.  Scott and Paul are abused by father and things get worse when  Paul is taken over by the 'bad gunky.'  Seems that 'bad gunky' runs in the Landon family, though it tends to skip a generation.  Later in the novel, Scott's father also gets taken over by the 'bad gunky.'
        Scott is able to escape the bad things in his life by traveling to a place he calls Boo'ya Moon.  Among other things Boo'ya Moon contains a pool.  (Scott in his speeches claims that all ideas come from a pool.)
        Throughout the novel, we slowly learn more about Scott and Lisa's marriage.  We learn about the time a crazed fan shot him and why Landons are such quick healers.
        In the present day, Lisey still had to deal the cleaning-out of Scott's office.  A lot of people are wanting her to hurry so that they can get their hands on her husband's papers.

        One professor from Scott's old college even goes so far as to have someone threaten Lisey.  Not until Jim Dooley, who first introduces himself has Zack McCool, does the professor realize he's made a mistake.
        While all this is going on, Lisey had to deal with her sister Amanda, who after cutting up her arms had gone catatonic.  Lisey isn't surprised to find out that Scott set up medical care for Amanda before his death.
        Quite a bit happens in this novel that is more about Scott and Lisey's relationship than it is about Lisey herself.  Highly recommended.

        Mark Fewell has been writing since 1987.  Since making his first sale to After Hours, he's had over two hundred works of poetry and fiction published.  His most recent sales have been to Sorcerous Signals and Drabblecast.  The Drabblecast story is his first story to be podcast. 
        Mark’s poetry has been featured many times in Calliope, and he has served as the contributing editor for horror for the past five years.
        When not writing, Mark works for a company that manufactures plastic Christmas trees and plastic swimming pools. Mark's website contains a bibliography of his works and  links to some of his more recent publications.