Numbers and Nerves: About Sales and Author Anxiety

I fully realize that I talk (and post) about Stephen King a lot. I’m fascinated by him for various reasons–the fact that he came from nothing to become the king of the literary world, the fact that my writing philosophy is almost completely in line with his (when I read On Writing, I had an eerie sense of deja vu throughout nearly all of it, because the stuff he said was the stuff I spewed out on a regular basis online, to friends, etc.), the fact that at the end of the day, he’s just a norma...