Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.