I Was Anastasia

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
—MARK TWAIN

There are few things more enjoyable to me than a good Author’s Note, and King’s are spectacular.

In high school I went through what I like to call my “Stephen King phase,” meaning that I read everything he’d written over the span of my sophomore and junior years.