Joe Hill ‘s ambitious new novel — the 900-page killer dragon epic “ King Sorrow ” — is inspired by love.
“I knew it was going to be the first book I was going to dedicate to my wife,” Hill says. “I think I wanted to impress her, and you know the trouble a man can get into when he tries to impress his best girl. So I began piling everything into it that I thought Gillian would love, and it would be fun to read.”
While the novel is a present to Hill’s wife, the editor and publisher Gillian Redfearn, his fans are in for a big adventure as well, as “King Sorrow” hits bookstores today from William Morrow. In the novel, six friends must make sacrifices through the years for the titular dragon after they call upon it for protection. From there, Hill dips into several different modes of story