:04:06
So, I elbowed the loved ones.
:04:19
I left some tapes here for transcription.
The name is King.
:04:24
- In English?
- Preferably.
:04:27
Please, you wait.
:04:39
The writer's life
would be ideal but for the writing.
:04:42
That was a problem I had to overcome.
:04:44
Then, I read in the Guinness Book of Records
about Earl Stanley Gardner,
:04:48
the world's fastest novelist,
who dictates up to 10,000 words a day.
:04:53
That was for me. None of that
romantic stuff with a typewriter.
:04:57
I had better uses for those two particular fingers.
:05:08
My full name is Chester Thomas King.
:05:10
Although most people call me Mickey
for reasons I won't go into.
:05:15
You may have read some of my early works.
:05:18
But my publisher didn't see Chester Thomas
King as the name of a best-selling author.
:05:23
He preferred such authors as
Guy Strange, Gary Rough,
:05:27
Dan Wild and Les Behan.
:05:30
I was all those and others. I was
co-authors Susan Eager and Paul S. Cumming.
:05:35
The newly discovered Indian writer,
Doctor O.R. Gann, spelt with two N's,
:05:39
and the struggling Nigerian author,
S. Odomy, with the emphasis on the "O".
:05:45
None of them exactly made
Book of the Month Club.
:05:51
- Mr King?
- Yes.
:05:55
Could I have a word with you?
:05:58
Yes.