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Author Mistaken as Book Vandal

August 16, 2007 by Summer Brooks 1 Comment

Stephen King Author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he started signing books during an unannounced visit to a shop in Australia, according to local media.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said staff at the Alice Springs book store did not initially realise the writer was autographing his own novels.

Bookshop manager Bev Ellis said: “When you see someone writing in one of your books you get a bit toey [nervous].

“We immediately ran to the books and lo and behold, there was the signature.”

Ms Ellis later approached the author at a nearby supermarket and said he was “very nice, charming”.

“Well, if we knew you were coming we would have baked you a cake,” she told the writer.

Read the rest at BBC News Website

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  • Summer Brooks
    Summer Brooks

    Summer Brooks enjoys putting her addiction to sci-fi & horror stories to good use in interviewing guests. She is a long-time podcaster, in several roles (co-host , host and producer) for Slice of SciFi since 2005, as co-host for The Babylon Podcast since 2006, and host of Writers, After Dark since 2018.

    She is an avid reader and writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing a graphic novel urban fantasy, and a B-movie creature feature.

    Summer also does story narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShip Sofa, and Escape Pod, among others.

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  1. Rebecca says

    August 16, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Hahahaha. Thanks, Summer. I hadn’t heard about that. He probably didn’t have much else to do in Alice Springs 🙂

    I love the cake thing. Nice one.

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