It sounds like a specialized question, but it\u2019s not. Apparently, if you know King, your reality as an author is verified, whether the person asking will ever bother to read a book of yours or not.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been asked about King many times times by cab drivers when I\u2019m doing book tours across the country and they find out why I\u2019m in town. It\u2019s almost always the first question.<\/p>\n
So, here are some sample answers to help out all you road-weary, flummoxed authors in those moments when your mind might go blank and you\u2019re wishing you had stayed home or taken your parents\u2019 advice and gone into your cousin\u2019s wallpaper business. Feel free to suggest your own.<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u201cWe went to college together. Dude could par-tay!\u201d Make up the wild story of your choice at this point. You\u2019re a writer. Be grotesque. Embellish.<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u201cThat SOB? Never wanted to. He used to date my cousin and he was into really kinky sex that left her with a limp and allergies. It\u2019s really sad.\u201d Sink into your seat and mutter darkly.<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u201cYes, but he trashed my house once after a s\u00e9ance and we haven\u2019t talked since, though our lawyers are working it out. At least he says those are his lawyers. Sometime you can see right through them…. It\u2019s kinda creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u201cStephen who? Is he some kind of writer or something? Like, what has he written I might have heard of?\u201d Look truly puzzled.<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u201cAre you kidding? I\u2019m the one who gives him his book titles and plot twists. He gets writer\u2019s block all the time and calls me drunk at three in the morning. Shit, I shouldn\u2019t have said that. Please don\u2019t tell anyone!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u201cNo. Have you?\u201d Glare.<\/p>\n
Lev Raphael<\/a> is the author of 25 books<\/a> in genres from memoir to mystery.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It sounds like a specialized question, but it\u2019s not. Apparently, if you know King, your reality as an author is verified, whether the person asking will ever bother to read a book of yours or not. I\u2019ve been asked about King many times times by cab drivers when I\u2019m doing book tours across the country … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[592,749,292,219,1147,809,197,19,1146,758,1148],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author-book-tours","tag-author-tours","tag-book-tours","tag-crime-fiction","tag-horror","tag-lev-raphael","tag-mysteries","tag-novels","tag-stephen-king","tag-writers-life","tag-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}