It must be the joy of the sight of his own writings in such an unknown town's bookstore that got Stephen King so pleased to sighn his name without invitation.
Best-selling author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal as he horrified an Australian outback bookstore, local media reported. A customer at the store in remote Alice Springs raised the alarm after noticing a man walk in off the street and begin writing in several books, manager Bev Ellis told national radio. “As the owner of a bookshop, when you see someone writing in one of your books you get a bit toey (touchy),” Ellis said. “So we immediately ran to the books and lo-and-behold here was the signature in several books. We sort of spun around on our heels, (saying) ‘where did he go, where did he go’?” Ellis said she saw the horror writer standing in the fruit and vegetable section of the supermarket across the road and went over to introduce herself. “He was lovely, very nice, charming,” she said. “He introduced
me to his friends and we had a talk and then I said ‘Well, I’ll leave you to the
tomatoes.’ “I don’t think he wanted people to know he was here but I told him
that if I knew he was coming I would have baked him a cake.” Of the six books
that King signed, five would be given to community groups for fund-raising auctions,
she said. The sixth was bought by the customer who mistook King for a vandal.
当地一家媒体报道，畅销书作家斯蒂芬·金在澳大利亚内陆一家书店被错认为是搞破坏的家伙，让书店恐怖了一回。 在偏远的爱丽丝·斯普林斯镇，书店里的一位顾客看到有个人从街上踱过来，走进书店就在几本书上乱画，他赶紧（向书店的人员）发出了警报。书店经理贝芙·艾利斯这样告诉国家广播电台。
“作为书店的老板，当看到有人在你的书上乱画时，难免会有些恼火。”艾利斯说。 我们马上跑过去，真怪，看到的却是几本书上的签名。我们急得团团乱转，连问：‘他去哪儿了？他去哪儿了？’”
艾利斯说，她看到这位恐怖小说作家正站在街对面超市的蔬果区，于是走过去做了自我介绍。 “他很可爱，人很好，很有魅力，”她说，“他把我介绍给了他的朋友们，我们聊了一会儿，后来我说：‘好了，我还是让您买西红柿吧。’”
“我觉得他不愿让人知道他在这里，但我对他说，假如知道他要来，我会给他烤个蛋糕的。” 她说，金签名的六本书里，有五本会送给社区组织进行拍卖，以筹措资金。
第六本被那位以为金是破坏分子的顾客买走了。
Remarks： 在偏僻小镇找到自己的书，想必斯蒂芬·金也十分自得，于是才欣然命笔。
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