{"id":571,"date":"2006-01-19T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=571"},"modified":"2006-01-22T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T20:15:56","slug":"talking-with-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Talking With the King"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting that both my previous post concerning cell phone technology (Link<\/a>) and a rather longish comment of mine on Mashable referencing Stephen King (Link<\/a>) should have something in common with a story now being run by ABC News called “Ads, Ads Everywhere” (Link<\/a>). But it’s kinda cool because it’s nice to see he’s in the thick of things.<\/p>\n

When I was posting that comment over on Mashable I originally started to include the fact that I emailed Mr. King with some ideas back in 2000, when he was experimenting with his online novel (see this Wired blurb on how that ended – Link<\/a>). The “Stephen King VIP Club” the ABC article now mentions sounds very much like one of those ideas.<\/p>\n

So now of course I’m wondering if the club will hold lotteries to have dinner with Mr. King at various cities during a book-signing tour; or auction off character identities in his books (by that I mean, winning readers have their names and perhaps some background information used to flesh out a character in a forthcoming novel – thus immortalizing them in literature). Who knows. But whether he ever read my email or not, it’s neat to think that maybe, just maybe<\/em> he did and it got him thinking about other ways to deal with people pirating his work (assuming he wasn’t already dreaming up solutions, which he probably was).<\/p>\n

Now before somebody rushes to puncture my balloon, let me live the dream a bit, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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