American writer Stephen King officially suspended cooperation on all new contracts in Russia. The King agent notified the AST publishing house about this, which publishes the writer's books.

The representative of the publishing house told Vedomosti that the rights to previously purchased works will remain with AST for the duration of the contracts. “But there really will be no new novels and extension of the expired rights for some near future,” he summed up.

King's new novel "Billy Summers" will appear in Russian bookstores on April 6. The representative of AST noted that for some time this novel will be the last novelty of King in Russian.

On March 5, Stephen King reported on Twitter about the refusal to be reprinted in Russia after the beginning of the so -called "special operation" in Ukraine.
King is the most published writer in the Russian market, he is known for the books “It”, “Shine”, “Cemetery of Pets”, the Dark Tower cycle and their film adaptations. The combined circulation of King’s sold books in Russia since 2016, according to AST, amounted to almost 6.7 million copies.

Stephen King suspended new projects in Russia