How I Got That Story

The novelist ponders the lessons he's learned from cyberpublishing

In July of this year, I began publishing a serial novel at my website, stephenking.com The idea was one episode a month, pay as you go...and pay by the honor system. My inspiration was the newspaper vendors in New York City during the first half of the century. Many of those hired for the job were blind, because the distribs felt that even slightly dishonest people wouldn't steal from a blind newsboy. My experiment has far from run its course, but the first phase of it concludes later this month, when Part 6 of The Plant--by far the longest--goes...

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