mr. steyn will be with us to take your calls, e-mails and tweets. the number is on thecrn: >> just for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones, >> you can contact us by e-mail, book tv or seen mr. steyn a tweet. mr. steyn, when did you start writing? >> guest: i started writing at school. i always liked writing. i think it's very difficult to be a writer if you don't, because it's actually physically unpleasant work, i think, and certainly if you started in the days of manual type writers and carbon ribbons and things, it's physically unpleasant work to do. and it's antisocial work to do as well. a lot of writers lead very dull lives, and when i was a boy and i -- i like writing, and i liked finding out about writers, and the writers i liked mostly had incredibly tedious lives. p.g. woodhouse, a splendid writer and an utterly boring life. he spent six decades at his house, getting up in in the morning and type, and then watch daytime soap operas which he became fascinate by and then

mr. steyn's best-selling works include his 2011 release, "after america." >> host: and, mark steyn, in your 2006 book, "america alone," where did that title come from? >> guest: i ought to confess that title came from the publisher, from my editor at regnery, a gentleman called harry crocker. i had a far more artful and elusive title that he thought was for losers and would guarantee we sold, you know, 2,800 copies.as [laughter]er he thought that was, he thought "america alone" was a hittite l, and he proved right on that. a e proved right on that. >> host: what was your original title? >> guest: i'm keeping that to when i'm in a multibillionaire and i can afford to indulge myself by writing books with oblique titles that sell 204,000 copies. >> host: what is the book about? >> guest: the book is -- my original title was on the same theme as "america alone" turned into. which is civilizational collapse, which is my shtick, my niche, and what hair didid is he getsow to focus on your selling point, and he says all this tap-dancing around the issue in the first 50 pages is a waste of time. get