Thanks for the kind words!
I actually devoured a lot of King in my younger days....sometimes as fast as he could publish it! I never intentionally tried to emulate any writer, however...my style is my own, for what it's worth. I have toyed with the idea of beginning a fictional work, if I thought anybody'd read it.
I laughed out loud at your King comment; yeah, he weirded out a bunch. His absolute best writing, IMHO, were when he was writing incognito as Richard Bachman...the scribblings were more coarse, visceral, and less of the science fiction crap that always seemed to ruin a perfectly good nail-biter. Don't encourage me too much, now....I may have a go at it!:munky2: