Nightcap

[Kevin Vahey]

I agree that it was a good policy and authors on a book tour should be
able to explain the book.

King occasionally would read a sports book in advance because he was a
sports nut.

I remember one night on Open Phone America a caller wanted to complain
that Jingle Bells was not a Christmas Song and the next 2 hours was
hysterical.

I once called his CNN show when Ted Turner was on to complain how
Warner Cable ( ironic isn't it ) would not clear TNT and I couldn't
watch football. THERE WAS NO DELAY except for the satellite bounce and
that stunned me.

On 1/3/09, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
> <<On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:22:17 -0600, "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> said:
>
>> King was very upfront about his policy. He wanted authors to explain
>> why he or his listeners should buy the book. Granted it was a lazy
>> approach but it usually went well.
>
> That's a pretty reasonable way to do it.  An author's job on tour is
> to sell the book, and if they can't express what it's about in a way
> that makes people want to buy it, their publisher shouldn't have put
> them up to it.  King certainly never claimed -- to my knowledge anyway
> -- to be a literary critic.  The standard for giving someone a free
> opportunity to plug their product are and should be rather different
> from the standards for what purports to be serious commentary.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>