http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/21/stephen-king-sons-of-anarchy-cameo                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Stephen King rides in to Sons of Anarchy TV cameo                                       Author takes role in US drama serial about outlaw motorcycle club                                                  Stephen King: 'I like to act'. Photograph: Tina Fineberg/AP  Stephen King  will guest star in an episode of the television drama Sons of Anarchy  today after being lured by the offer of riding a Harley-Davidson. The  bestselling author plays a character named Bachman – King wrote a  number of his horror novels under the pen name Richard Bachman – who is  described in the show's official announcement as "highly skilled in an  unusual profession". The television series, about an outlaw motorcycle  club in the fictional town of Charming, California, has just started its  third season in the US (King appears in the third episode) and is  currently showing its second series in the UK.  King was asked to take part after writing a positive column about the show for Entertainment Weekly.  "I like the show, it's one of those shows which seems to have gotten  better as it goes along, it's found its groove," he said in a video  interview for the channel FX.  "[Creator] Kurt Sutter got in  touch with me [and] said if you're ever out here we'd like to have you  on the show. Ordinarily I would say no but he said he'd put me on a  Harley, so here I am."  King also "like to act",  he explained on his website – "not that I'm much good at it" – and  Sutter "assured me that he'd write me a suitably nasty part (in various  films I've been stuck playing a series of mentally challenged country  bumpkins)". "The bike was just short of awesome: a bright  red Harley-Davidson Road-Glide. A little tricked-out for my taste, and  if I'd dropped it I never would have been able to pick it up, but I  would have been glad to take it home (sadly, no deal). All black  clothes, bright red sled – can't do much better than that," said King,  who has ridden bikes since he was 22 and currently owns a Heritage  Softail from 1986.  The author has also appeared in George A  Romero's 1981 film Knightriders and in a number of adaptations of his  own books, including Pet Sematary, The Stand and The Langoliers.