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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. According to King's website , he and his family were renting the home in when his daughter Naomi's pet cat was struck and killed by a vehicle. He buried the cat in a nearby pet cemetery in the woods behind the house, sparking the nucleus of an idea. In it, the Creed family loses its pet cat to a similar accident — but kitty doesn't stay dead, as it appears back at the home after being buried in the eponymous pet cemetery.
By the way, did you know the home next to Stephen King's house in Bangor is for sale? You could have one creepy neighbor. Amanda McDonald Published: July 12, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. And of course, you could work on this list of things to do in Maine , too.
While I do not read his novels, there are few writers who have a more compelling message on the importance of persevering until one is able to break through the massive barriers to entry in entertainment and in book publishing. It is my understanding that Stephen King was living in a trailer house, working for peanuts as an English teacher at a private school, as he received rejection letter after rejection letter from publishing houses for the many novels he laboriously produced in his attempt to break away from what he felt to be a dead end job in teaching.
Finally, he got in the mail a message from a publishing house. Expecting yet another rejection letter, he painfully opened the envelope to read the joyful message that his transcript had been accepted and a publishing contract would be offered. This is much the same in music. Talent was given little weight in the buying decision.
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