Recommended:
“The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within” (Stephen Fry)
While camped in a doctor’s waiting room today, topping up on pop culture, and found a piece in Entertainment Weekly (hey, you take a look at the cover with Emma Watson 
and see if you don’t pick it up) by Stephen King on a new novel called Fieldwork. The original piece isn’t online yet, but there was a reply from the publisher. His complaint is that the publisher was too shy about making the packaging of the book as appealing as the story. Some complain that one can’t take King seriously as an ordinary reader, but I don’t know about that.
I found it interesting that he takes an interest in new writers and was seemingly infuriated that they didn’t get that much support from their publishers. I thought it was an interesting piece: he had obviously read the book, liked it, and felt it wasn’t being well-marketed. I have never read word one by King: it’s hard to argue with a guy like that one what makes a successful boo, especially as he doesn’t make any great claims to talent, calling himself “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries“.