Dan Wakefield is a great novelist Going All The Way is a great book as is Starting Over and both were made into decent movies, and he has written a lot of great essays (including some about being a man of faith who has no respect for the religious right.) He also created the much loved 70s teen series James at 15/16 which inspired Dawson's Creek. It's one of the few soap books that really is a pleasure to read just as a book. I remember a friend who doesn't watch soaps but was staying with me for a weekend picked it up (because I leave copies strategically all around my house, of course ) and said he was just going to flip through it, but ended up reading it all.

I actually emailed Dan Wakefield about 8 years ago and asked if he kept tabs on the show. (This was right around the time Bianca was raped.) Sadly, he said he hadn't kept up with All My Children in quite some time. But he did say that he would check it out again on my suggestion that the show was at the time experiencing a rebirth. (Of course, McTavish couldn't sustain any stories passed her initial "umbrella" story of Bianca's assault and the show got darker and darker.)

Mine is Paperback.

You saying that you like to place them strategically around your house is something I would do.

Oh dear... That was a joke... lol

I actually emailed Dan Wakefield about 8 years ago and asked if he kept tabs on the show. (This was right around the time Bianca was raped.) Sadly, he said he hadn't kept up with All My Children in quite some time. But he did say that he would check it out again on my suggestion that the show was at the time experiencing a rebirth. (Of course, McTavish couldn't sustain any stories passed her initial "umbrella" story of Bianca's assault and the show got darker and darker.)

Wow! I'm impressed--I would have never thought to have done that. It was experiencing a rebirth right around then (Susan even talked about it on The View I remember, and of course Stephen King wrote about it being his fave TV show in Ent Weekly) but yeah, that didn't last...

Stephen King was a fan of All My Children???

Oh dear... That was a joke... lol

Wow! I'm impressed--I would have never thought to have done that. It was experiencing a rebirth right around then (Susan even talked about it on The View I remember, and of course Stephen King wrote about it being his fave TV show in Ent Weekly) but yeah, that didn't last...

Oh. I knew....Yup!! I did!!!.....Gee Willikers!!

.....Um... Looks like bed time....

**Runs and Hides under bed and hopes this can be undone**

Stephen King was a fan of All My Children???

Briefly, anyway--he LOVED the whole Babe/Bianca/OLTL babyswitch and spoke up about it as one of the stories of the year (in all, thank god, earnestness.)

Briefly, anyway--he LOVED the whole Babe/Bianca/OLTL babyswitch and spoke up about it as one of the stories of the year (in all, thank god, earnestness.)

are you serious??? Wow... is there a link to what he said..

I'm trying to find one--but I swear I didn't make this up

"I'm thankful for All My Children. Nothing is better than visiting Pine Valley in the early afternoon. It's been especially exciting there since Babe told Jamie that Bess (who is Babe's baby — sort of — it's complicated) is really Miranda, and Adam turned over the incriminating footage of Jamie to Brooke. I'm not kidding about any of this. And you have to love a soap that has an evil (but dreadfully conflicted) young villain named JR"

http://www.stephenking.nl/kingcolumn/kingcolumn_21.htm

He mentioned in a another piece that when he was drunk all the time and writing non stop that he would always watch AMC.

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Really where's that piece of him seeing AMC while drunk

Haha. OMG. Picturing Stephen King drunk and watching AMC is hilarious to me. I love it.

Really where's that piece of him seeing AMC while drunk

It was on The Q--a CBC (Canada) radio interview.

Nothin' on Jessie/Angie? I bet the author was a David Hayward fan long before he was created.

Nothin' on Jessie/Angie? I bet the author was a David Hayward fan long before he was created.

The book was written pre-Angie/Jesse era.

LOL