What a sad and unlovely place this comes from.

I wince whenever I see that (or dog-earing), even on films or TV. I never even knew I was doing it until my wife pointed it out to me.

Your book, do what you like; library book, use a bookmark.

Not on the front or back covers, for the love of God.

Conversely, I've been reading King since 1980 and Roadwork is one of my favourites. It's a realistic story about a guy refusing to leave his home so it can be demolished for roadworks, and it's an angry, sociopolitical story that's atypical King and well worth reading.

> Guy gets knocked out of his shoes by a speeding coke vending machine.

Stephen King—when your subconscious is writing the book for you.

He wrote Dreamcatcher long hand in notebooks after a life-threatening accident, still in a hospital bed, hopped up on painkillers. An interesting experiment, but maybe not a publishable one.

Shirley Jackson famously suffered anxiety and agoraphobia, which comes out in her final book We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Each territory can have its own first edition. A true first will state either First Edition on its copyright page, or a number line which should feature the number 1. A second impression (or printing) of a popular title will have a number line 'starting' from 2, or it may state that it's a second impression/printing.

A new cover will be considered a second edition by collectors, although many publishers count it as a further 'printing'.