Bag Of Bones: Chapter 3 (pages 26-42)

This chapter goes into great detail about Mike's life as a publishing author and his newly acquired writer's block. I was looking forward to hear King's thoughts on the publishing business but was disappointed when nothing of note was revealed to the reader.
The numbers are a cliche: 500,000. The money is a cliche, 3 million a book (there are no discussions of royalties which would've been really interesting.) How much money has King made on a book like "The Dead Zone"? Written in 1980, sold millions of copies since then, made into a movie and a TV series. Ten million on that book alone? Possible, but we don't know and his description of a writer's business dealings is just generic enough so we don't get any answers.

The main plot point of this chapter is that his hard-nosed agent wants another book and Mike can't write but he does have four books that he wrote earlier stored in a safety deposit box ready to go. So he can publish one "new" book a year for four years. After that he's in trouble.