One more reason to love Stephen King*.

He (and his wife) raised a good kid:

Success means King's son must finally step forward to claim his inheritance but he's glad to have made it on merit. "Writing as Joe Hill, the goal was to avoid getting special favours or treatment. If I sold a story, I wanted to know that it sold because an editor genuinely liked it and felt it had qualities that would excite a reader," Hill says.

Heart-Shaped Box just won the 2007 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel

(links via bookawardsonline)

*As if I needed another one.