{"id":150566,"date":"2022-12-07T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T08:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/join-the-club-stephen-king-margaret-atwood-and-more-reassure-debut-author-after-lonely-book-launch-books-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T08:01:57","slug":"join-the-club-stephen-king-margaret-atwood-and-more-reassure-debut-author-after-lonely-book-launch-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/join-the-club-stephen-king-margaret-atwood-and-more-reassure-debut-author-after-lonely-book-launch-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Join the club’: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and more reassure debut author after lonely book launch | Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
When debut author Chelsea Banning vented on Twitter about no one showing up at her book signing, she didn’t expect that some of the world’s most famous authors, including Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman, would respond with tales of their own nightmare public appearances.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt my first Salem’s Lot signing, I had one customer. A fat kid who said, ‘Hey bud, do you know where there’s some Nazi books?’\u201d King wrote to each<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cTerry Pratchett and I did a signing in Manhattan for Good Omens that nobody came to at all. So you are two up on us,\u201d Gaiman wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n