I'm actually super excited that the Wichita event is NOT a book signing. I have watched videos of his talks online and wanted nothing more than to hear him speak in person. I don't expect to ever have a personal one-on-one conversation with the man (it probably wouldn't turn out well anyway with me fainted on the ground and all...) and this is my chance of a lifetime. If I really want his signature in a book, I'll buy one. The autograph isn't most important to me (though you folks will be seeing pictures if I'm one of the random few at the event who is handed one!), the experience is. I seriously never thought I'd have this chance and I can't stop staring at my tickets! November 14 can't get here soon enough!
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I agree. I will be standing in line very early to try for S. Portland(but not be one of those annoying fans as mentioned earlier
) I already have a signed book through a six degrees situation(my mom was good friends with a gentleman who was friends with SK and he got it for me as a gift) and it's a treasured possession that I've had since 1988. Even if I didn't have that book already, getting to meet him in person and thank him for being loyal to his home state(and his baseball team)is what I am striving for. Would I turn down another signed book? Of course not but for me, personally, a meeting that may not last more than 30 seconds would mean the most. Just because.....
I've seen King a few times and always appreciated the opportunity. None of us are getting any younger and you have to wonder how many more opportunities will come around. In all the events I've ever gone to, however, I can't recall meeting a single person who was anything other than pleasant and a hardcore King fan. Those interested in a signed copy perhaps the most of all because many have travelled a great distance and spent hundreds to attend.
They sold out for the KC event but I called Rainy Day Books who is sponsoring the event and I was able to call the morning of 9/19 and get one! I am not sure if they have any left but if you call them they should be able to tell you how to get one of the last few they were holding. I have always wanted to see him and had to call 15 times to get through to someone but it worked! try them and see what they say. Good luck!
Thanks, I got 4 tickets before they stopped selling. I was asking for a friend of mine who waited to long
I don't even want him on tour at all. I want him chained to his desk (in a comfy chair- I'm not heartless) cranking out another story I can't put down. But if he has to then this is something I would enjoy-
And if the book I got said "Dear generic fan, sell this and your soul on ebay for enough cash to buy that piece of crap you always wanted- Love, Stephen" then all the better.
Ms. Mod......Is there a comprehensive list of places Mr. King is going? I'm down here on the east coast of Fl and I am wondering where the closest stop is to me...
He spends every winter in Florida but the only appearance he has scheduled has already sold out and there aren't any plans at the moment to add anything more.
I would imagine old injuries drive him from Maine winters. The cold of some climes seems to settle in bones and those with breaks or metal pinch hard the nerves. We rarely make it as far as the Keyes but tend to wander the coast in search of something new in early November as the hotels are near empty and you get the pick of rooms plus beaches are your own. The last trip we got to see a huge turtle off the beach of Saint George Island. Common miracles abound though I did talk to a local who claimed never to have seen one in his life there. If there is one thing I envy anyone it is time to explore. It is a spectacular world full of interesting things and people and I would like to meet them all.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I think you are probably right - I just read this interview with him on-line - it is pretty old (from 2001) but in it he talks about some of his difficulties after the accident
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 189, Stephen King
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
This is not about his injuries, but the part I highlighted from the interview made me laugh:
"Well, my categorization is also about character, and the number of characters. Innies tend to be about one person and go deeper and deeper into a single character. Lisey’s Story, my new novel, is an innie, for instance, because it’s a long book and there are only a few characters, but a book like Cell is an outie because there are a lot of people and it’s about friendship and it’s kind of a road story. Gerald’s Game is the innie-est of all the innie books. It’s about only one person, Jessie, who’s been handcuffed naked to her bed. The little things all get so big—the glass of water, and her trying to get the shelf above the bed to tip up so she can escape. Going into that book, I remember thinking that Jessie would have been some sort of gymnast at school, and at the end of it she would simply put her feet back over her head, over the bedstead, and wind up standing up.
About forty pages into writing it, I said to myself, I’d better see if this works. So I got my son—I think it was Joe because he’s the more limber of the two boys—and I took him into our bedroom. I tied him with scarves to the bedposts. My wife came in and said, What are you doing? And I said, I’m doing an experiment, never mind.
Joe tried to do it, but he couldn’t. He said, My joints don’t work that way. And again, it’s what I was talking about with the rabies in Cujo. I’m saying, Jesus Christ! This isn’t going to work! And the only thing you can do at that point is say, Well, I could make her double-jointed. Then you go, Yeah, right, that’s not fair.
Misery was just two characters in a bedroom, but Gerald’s Game goes that one better—one character in a bedroom. I was thinking that eventually there’s going to be another book that will just be called “Bedroom.” There won’t be any characters at all."
I can just picture him doing this - poor Joe!
Poor Joe? Joe loved it! Kids love to attempt things just to see if they can do them. It must have been great to have Stephen for a father. My father never understood my obsessions though he never discouraged them. To have a father with those same tendancies must have been a hoot.
I read that whole interview (a long one) and found myself agreeing with all of it. Then came the point where he said he only had ten or fifteen years left to write and I realized that would be about now. No no no no. You have the magic Stephen, and it's like voodoo, you have to believe in the magic for it to work. The mind goes on, it sorts and disects and has it's wanderings and epiphanies and many many authors have written their best work in the last quarter. There is no limit where there is still the want. Life wears and grinds and it feels like it is grinding us down but it is also polishing. I figure he knows that now. Age corrects our notions of aging.
Gah but he made me want a cigarette. Six years now. No. One would lead to another.
I read that whole interview (a long one) and found myself agreeing with all of it. Then came the point where he said he only had ten or fifteen years left to write and I realized that would be about now. No no no no. You have the magic Stephen, and it's like voodoo, you have to believe in the magic for it to work. The mind goes on, it sorts and disects and has it's wanderings and epiphanies and many many authors have written their best work in the last quarter. There is no limit where there is still the want. Life wears and grinds and it feels like it is grinding us down but it is also polishing. I figure he knows that now. Age corrects our notions of aging.
Gah but he made me want a cigarette. Six years now. No. One would lead to another.
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He shared the story of Joe and the bed during his Wichita event- first time I had heard it- hilarious.
Thanks for the link Neesy! hadn't seen it before. Real interesting.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
You're welcome! (mouth still sore where the wisdom teeth used to be?)