He then decided the mother needed a companion. The 73-year-old King has written dozens of novels and stories, and usually has three to four ideas that “are half-baked, kind of like an engine and no transmission.” He doesn’t write ideas down because, he says, if something is good enough he’s unlikely to forget it.įor “Later,” he started with the idea of a literary agent who needed to get her late client’s manuscript finished, and thought of having a son who communicates with the dead. “Later” also features a best-selling novelist and his posthumous book, and a police detective who for a time is the girlfriend of Jamie’s mother. Like other young King protagonists, Jamie has special powers: He not only can see dead people, but when he asks them questions, they are compelled to tell the truth. Jamie Conklin is looking back on his childhood, when he was raised by a single mother, a New York literary agent. His new novel has a lot of crime in it but, as King’s narrator suggests, it might actually be a horror story. “It’s the beauty of the mystery that allows us to live sane as we pilot our fragile bodies through this demolition derby world,” he writes in the book’s afterword. – David Foster and Katharine McPhee welcome a baby boy.– 'The Mighty Ducks' coaxes Emilio Estevez back into acting.– Marvel's Wanda has a future, but 'WandaVision' fate unclear.
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