Joe Hill, fils de Stephen King et auteur de Cornes et Fantômes : Histoires troubles, entres autres, a été interviewé par le magazine Locus.

 

Retrouvez ci-dessous un extrait de l'interview, que vous pouvez retrouver dans son intégralité dans le numéro de juillet du magazine Locus.

 

"The crazy author archetype is bullshit. Leading up to Heart-Shaped Box I’d written four books I couldn’t sell. I’d made this decision to write as Joe Hill, to drop the last name King, and to fight into the publishing world on the merits of my own fiction, as opposed to letting my dad’s name open doors for me. That was a terrific time, and great fun. I wrote a lot of bad fiction that never got published. Three of the four novels were pretty terrible. The first novel you write is a tremendously important novel to you, but whether any reader will actually want to look at it is another story. The idea that you could write a bestselling novel your first time out is like imagining you could pick up a tennis racket and play at Wimble­don. It’s a ludicrous notion. You’ve got to lose a thousand games before you’re going to win at that level."