***** Q and A With King ***** ----------------►Something to Ponder.......Which of Stephen Kings monsters do YOU find the scariest and WHY? (Goodreads interview, conducted by Catherine Elsworth, Nov.2014) Q: Which of your books/stories are you most attached to and why? A: Liseys Story, because its about the secret world that exists inside every long marriage. Also—and Im not the first person to have said this—no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short. But I got pretty close in Liseys Story. Q: Goodreads member Ed Logiudice writes, In NOS4A2 Joe Hill mentions places from the world of Stephen King. In Doctor Sleep Stephen King mentions Charlie Manx [the villain in Hills book]. Do you see the further writings of Joe Hill (and maybe even those of Owen King) as an extension of the Dark Tower world? Will your sons continue the Dark Tower legacy? A: I love my sons and I love that they are writers—I also love my daughter, whos a minister and an orchard keeper!—but I wouldnt wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together. Ive got something going with Owen now, and Ive collaborated with Joe on two novellas, Throttle and In the Tall Grass. But when Joe and I were working on a couple of books that turned out to have similar elements (even though neither of us had read the others work), Joe said it would be cool to throw in some connecting back story. So...we did. Think of them as Easter eggs. Q: Goodreads member Mandi Bolling asks, Of all the monsters you have written about, which one do you find the scariest and why? A: Its a tie. Pennywise the Clown (It), because clowns have scared me since childhood, and Randall Flagg (The Stand), because theres a little of him in all of us. Q: Goodreads member Mark asks, After your phenomenal success as an author and musician, what, if anything, remains undone for you? What is the one thing you havent done, that you are still itching to accomplish? A: Id like to learn French well enough to write in that language. And Id like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course Id also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but its important to put ceilings on ones ambitions, dont you think?
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