Authors I Admire: # 2 Stephen King

I don’t know why people mention Stephen King as if some guilty pleasure, or worse – just straight out don’t rate him, consider him a hack, some below-literature grade of fluke-artist who sold his soul to the movies and got lucky. That’s nuts. That dude can write! In fact he was probably my first writing hero. The first “rock-star” equivalent for me. I h…