6 Things Authors Can Say When People Ask 'Do You Know Stephen King?'

It sounds like a specialized question, but it's not. Most authors on tour get it a lot.



For some reason, people who read a book only under duress seem to think of King as the touchstone of all things literary. If you know him, your reality as an author is verified, whether they'll ever bother to read a book of yours or not.



I've been asked this annoying question countless times by cab drivers when I'm doing book tours across the country and they discover why I'm in town. It's almost always th...