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been varied, and there have been greater amounts as the years pass and more people find the site. Most people really like what I do on the site and some even think I am Stephen King, which is quite funny.
    The site has also gotten a response from the media. The BBC contacted me and I ended up doing an interview for BBC radio. The site has also been mentioned in different articles over the years, as well as in books and in promotional situations. About ninety-nine percent of the response has been positive. The one percent is made up of people who take out their anger on me because they didn’t get tickets to a reading, didn’t get a special book they wanted in time or things like that. But that isn’t a big problem.
    I actually got a really cool entry in the guestbook once. One day when I checked it there was a message from George A. Romero, in which he said he liked the site. Needless to say that made my day.
    Bev Vincent: What do you do when you aren’t working on Lilja’s Library?
    Lilja: Well, I’m involved in running two other sites. One is the Scandinavian King Fan Club, Följeslagarna ( www.Foljeslagarna.com ), and the other is a DVD review site called DVDKritik ( www.DVDKritik.se ). Those take up some of my time but also let me indulge myself in my other big interest—movies. I see a lot of movies in my spare time, so it’s only natural for me to review them.
    In real life I work as a software programmer, which means I spend a great deal of my day in front of a computer screen. We’ll see in about thirty or forty years if that is a good decision on my part…I also have a family that includes two children and no pets.
    Bev Vincent: So, tell us the truth—there’s a lot of really good information hidden away on a secret Swedish-only part of your site, isn’t there?
    Lilja: Ha ha, I wish. But no, there isn’t. Every piece of info I get that I’m allowed to share goes up on the site. There is information I get that I’m asked not to put on the site for one reason or another, but that information only exists in my head, not on a secret site for select members.

Part 3—Interviews 
    Section 1—The King  
    Stephen King, Part 1 
    Posted: January 16, 2007  
     
    Welcome to the first part of a three-part interview I did over the phone with Stephen King. At a time when he is turning down interview requests, Stephen King made an exception for Lilja’s Library to accommodate a previous commitment and did the interview you’re about to read. 
    We talked for about forty-five minutes and managed to cover topics including his upcoming books: Duma Key , Blaze and a second sequel to The Talisman .  
    We also talked about what he thinks of all the fansites dedicated to him on the Internet, his collaboration with John Mellencamp, The Haven Foundation, limited editions of his books and a new novella called “The Gingerbread Girl,” which he is currently working on. 
    I hope you will enjoy reading the interview as much as I enjoyed doing it. Stephen King’s kindness and down-to-earth manner made it extremely enjoyable, even though I was very nervous when I picked up the phone and heard “Hello Hans? Steve King…” 
    Enjoy! / Lilja 
     
     
     
    PART 1—Fansites, Blaze and The Haven Foundation  
     
    “I would rather that they think of me as Santa Claus. That I’m paying attention to their little lists but I can’t respond to everything in person.”  
     
    “Will it satisfy the fans? And between you and me and between everybody who reads your website, I have my doubts.”  
     
    Lilja: So, how are you feeling? Have you recovered from your accident?  
    Stephen King: Well, I think that if it had happened to me when I was forty instead of fifty I might be all better, but I get sore and I have a fair amount of pain in the hip and the leg. But it doesn’t keep me down much. I walk about three and a half miles a day and they told me, “Use it or you’re gonna lose it,” but mostly I feel just