Stephen King’s Secret to Success

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Horror novels are generally something I avoid, but Stephen King's book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft wasn't scary at all. Instead, I found it hard to put down.

In its pages, the world's fourth richest author explained that his success came down to two factors:

I stayed physically healthy… and I stayed married... The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship… has made the continuity of my working life possible.

In the same spirit, I've just published a new page on my website titled...

My Red-Headed Sunflower: About My Wife Nicole Patrice Manley
...where I share: Read all that, and more about my Red-Headed Sunflower (including why I call her a Sunflower), by heading over here.

—John C. A. Manley

PS We've been married 19 years, known each other for 22. That goes back to before digital photography. So you're gonna see plenty of photos I had to scan in from our photo albums dating back to 2002.



John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/