Second Stephen King lottery scheduled

The Charlotte Sun and Weekly Herald reports that there will be a second lottery for tickets to the March 20 Stpehen King speaking engagement. The talk will be held at the Cultural Center of Charlotte County.

Pamela Staik writes, On Wednesday, organizers for the Big Read will have a second lottery in an effort to fill the 400 available seats of the center's theater, said Angie Patteson, the manager of libraries in Charlotte County."

Some quick facts: The reason for the lottery is that several earlier winners did not pick up their tickets by the Saturday deadline. And just hwo many requests were there? -- around around 4,800! This, of course, reflects the fact that King is still extremely popular.

Of particular interest to me is the Sun's mention that Big Read hired a professional videographer and the event will be available on the county's Web site, http://charlottecountyfl.com.

entire story here: http://www.sunnewspapers.net/articles/pnnews.aspx?a=newsarchive2/030910/ch3.htm&NewsID=453681&pnpg=0