Nah.
He did say novels. Still nah though.
I mean technically The Green Mile is a serial novel. He wanted to do like the serial novels of the early 20th century with a new section released every month or so in a given magazine or whatever. I mean it really is one big novel sold originally in 6 parts over 6 months. You can now get all of them in a single novel.
From wikipedia...
The Green Mile was first published in six paperback volumes. The first, subtitled
The Two Dead Girls was published on March 28, 1996, with new volumes following monthly until the final volume,
Coffey on the Mile, was released on August 29, 1996. The novel was republished as a single paperback volume on May 5, 1997. On October 3, 2000, the book was published in its first hardcover edition (
ISBN 978-0743210898). In 2007,
Subterranean Press released a 10th anniversary edition of the novel in three different versions, each mimicking the original six-volume release: the Gift Edition, limited to 2,000 copies, containing six unsigned hardcover volumes of each separate part, housed in a slipcase; the Limited Edition, limited to 148 numbered copies, and signed by Stephen King, housed in a slipcase; and the Lettered Edition, limited to 52 lettered copies, and signed by Stephen King, housed in a traycase. Every edition contained new illustrations by Mark Geyer, the novel's original illustrator. Each version had its own design, and cost $150, $900, and $2,500, respectively. There were other versions published as well, including a "pocketbook" sized hardcover by Paw Prints (
ISBN 9781439182789).
King was first made aware of the possibility to publish stories in shorter instalments by Ralph Vicinanza, who, after a conversation with British publisher
Malcolm Edwards, learned that
Charles Dickens had often published his stories in shorter instalments by either folding them into magazines, or by publishing the instalments on their own as a
chapbook.
