John Grisham & Stephen King on Writing

As much as I am a great aficionado of literary fiction, I am also a shameless fan of popular fiction. In fact, popular fiction has played a big role in influencing my writing and my life. Two examples of this can be found in John Grisham and Stephen King, both highly successful popular authors with very different genres. Grisham write legal thrillers, where as Stephen King writes horror/thrillers, generally speaking.

John Grisham’s writing impacted me in several ways. First, his novel “The St...