Stephen King, licensed nicest man on Twitter, comforts up-and-coming creator after lackluster signing attendance

Cutting by way of this week’s Twitter news cycle of seemingly countless neo-Nazi garbage is a healthful and heartwarming story of a budding discouraged creator being comforted by the legend himself, Stephen King, after their e-book signing didn’t have as many attendees as they might have hoped.

Any artistic who has ever made an try to chop by way of the noise has been there – zero curiosity at an artwork opening, two or three half-drunk slobs at your band’s bar gig, zero to at least one concurrent viewers in your Twitch stream, rejection after rejection after tens or maybe a whole bunch of auditions, it’s a widely known plight. 

What upcoming creator Chelsea Banning wasn’t anticipating when she took to Twitter to vent her frustrations about her underwhelming e-book signing, was phrases of consolation and encouragement from not solely King however varied different celebrated authors together with Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood – all sharing nightmare tales of their early e-book signings of their collective means of reassuring Banning that every one writers have been there.

Banning has since obtained an outpouring of assist throughout social media and seems to have been diligently responding to any form phrases thrown her means on Twitter, joking she goes to be needing a publicist quickly with all of the assist she has been receiving. 

It certain is sweet to see one thing healthful occurring on Twitter in an in any other case turbulent and disastrous month on the platform, throughout which Stephen King has verbally sparred with Elon Musk on and off.

In case you had been questioning, Chelsea Banning’s e-book is titled Of Crowns and Legends, and is out there now.