Michael Sauers
Dean Koontz Signs New Five-Book Deal with Amazon Publishing
July 22, 2019
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon Publishing (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it has signed international best-selling author Dean Koontz for a five-book deal and a collection of six short thrillers. Thomas & Mercer will publish the first book, Devoted, next spring, and Nameless, the short thriller collection, will be available from Amazon Original Stories for free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited customers on November 12th.
“For many years, I have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with Brilliance Audio, an Amazon company, and later with Amazon Original Stories,” says Dean Koontz. “Although there were numerous options for the future, it was most natural to sign with the team at Amazon Publishing, which presented a marketing and publicity plan smarter and more ambitious than anything I’d ever seen before. This new arrangement is so exciting, I’ve been creatively rejuvenated. The times are changing, and it’s invigorating to be where change is understood and embraced.”
“We are honored Dean has chosen Amazon Publishing to bring his newest work to readers,” says Mikyla Bruder, Publisher of Amazon Publishing. “Building on the success of Dean’s Amazon Charts best-selling short story, Ricochet Joe, our first publication together, we’re excited to expand our relationship with five new books from Thomas & Mercer and an episodic collection of short thrillers from Amazon Original Stories, delivering the kind of exhilarating and deeply resonant suspense his millions of fans expect and we know new readers will love.”
Source: BusinessWire.com
Also covered by… (I’ll add to this list as articles appear)
- Engadget – Thriller author Dean Koontz signs five-book deal with Amazon
- Fortune – Dean Koontz Signs Five-Book Deal With Amazon
- Seeking Alpha – Amazon Publishing signs Koontz deal
- Publishers Weekly – Koontz Inks Multibook Deal with Amazon Publishing
- Market Watch – Amazon signs book deal with Dean Koontz, with free collection coming in November
- LA Times – Prolific novelist Dean Koontz signs five-book deal with Amazon
- UPI – Author Dean Koontz ‘creatively rejuvenated’ by new deal with Amazon
- Publishers Weekly – Book Deals: Week of July 29, 2019
- Daily Journal of Commerce – News
- The Writer – Bestselling author Dean Koontz moves to Amazon Publishing with five-book deal
- Locus, September 2019, p8 under “Books Sold”
Songs of the Dying Earth
July 20, 2019
Just got this beauty in the mail. Not signed by Dean but still way cool.
From the archives: NPR reviews Dragon Tears
July 16, 2019
What’s New & Updated July 15, 2019
July 15, 2019
Finally, the Frankenstein comics!
- Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
- Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son Volume Two
- Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge
And a few other items…
- Quote from the Ramsland biography added to The Face in His Belly
- Innocence ARC w/ publicity sticker
Happy 74th birthday Dean!
July 9, 2019
What’s New & Updated July 8, 2019
July 8, 2019
I’ve yet to force myself to sit down and get those Frankenstein comics done. I’ll just have to start chipping away at those each morning this week with a hope to get them all in for next week’s update.
In the meantime, check out the first link below for more details on that John W. Campbell letter I blogged last week.
- Alleged Letter from John W. Campbell to Dean Koontz
- Fear Nothing: Volume One in Dynamite’s 2019 catalog
Racism in the SF world
July 2, 2019
Found this little gem yesterday. Look for full details in the July 8 site update.
What’s New & Updated July 1, 2019
July 1, 2019
Life overtook the site again this week. ‘Nuff said.
- The Night Window large print hardcover
- Python Crash Course & AP Bio to Ephemera
Dean wrote a Python book?
June 28, 2019
Normally a new entry doesn’t get it’s own blog post too, but this one’s just too fun…
Recently the online article “What Occurs After Amazon’s Domination Is Entire? Its Book shop Presents Clues” by Viraj Shah (June 24, 2019) discussed the number of bootleg book being sold on Amazon.com. He says:
‘One ebook, moreover known as “Python Rupture Route,” is an thoroughly doubtful effort. On its front quilt is a distorted label appropriated from the respected publisher McGraw Hill but subtly modified to “RcGraw Hill.” The ebook sides a biography of Alexis Jordan, its purported author, on the assist quilt that became stolen from the in style suspense author Dean Koontz. (“His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers,” and many others.) Internal, there would possibly per chance be a completely a quantity of biography plagiarized from Jürgen Scheible, a German media artist.’
The book in question is titled Python Crash Course by Alexis Jordan. I was able to purchase a print copy of this book which was removed from Amazon by the time my copy arrived just two days later.
Yep, check out the author bio on the back:
Dean MF Koontz
June 27, 2019
What’s New & Updated June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019
Considering I spent several days this week attending the American Library Association annual conference in Washington, DC this week, there’s way more here than I was expecting.
- Icebound UK BCE image
- Mr. Murder UK BCE image
- Phantoms UK Star mass market paperback
- Phantoms (film) screening invitation
- The Voice of the Night renamed to The Voice of the Night (BC)
- The Voice of the Night (DRK)
- UK Star mass market paperback
- Whispers UK Star mass market paperback
- Reviews of Hell’s Gate and The Dark Symphony (which mentions the Beastchild novella) in Canticles From Labowitz #7
- Star Quest quote in Diaspar #17
- Updated image for Science Fiction Review #24 for The Vision (DRK)
- Updated the order of The Vision (DK) editions
- Updated image for The Mississippi Flows Into the Tiber
Dean Koontz to only sign new releases by Jon Torres
June 24, 2019
My trips to Book Carnival in Tustin, California are usually exciting. Known as a mystery and suspense bookstore, it has always had a special relationship with Dean Koontz. Part of that special relationship has included the ability for fans to drop off a limited number of books for Dean to sign while he signs his latest release.
That has now changed.
On May 29th, 2019, while picking up The Night Window and some additional books, I was told by Anne Saller, owner of Book Carnival, that Dean would no longer sign additional books. While his health “is good”, it is getting difficult for him to sign so many books. This was evident by the signature in my copy of Detours. (Above) While the news of only new releases being signed was sobering, it was tempered with better news. According to Anne, Dean has already finished three more books.
[I’d been wondering about this myself since there was not a pre-signed edition of The Night Window released as had been with all previous Jane Hawk novels. –Michael]
7,000 Books And Magazines Are Banned In Kansas Prisons. (Including Dean’s) by Nomin Ujiyediin
June 20, 2019
“A Clockwork Orange.” “Invisible Man.” “Twelve Years a Slave.”
Issues of Bloomberg Businessweek, Us Weekly, Elle.
“Excel 2016 for Dummies.” “Tarot Fundamentals.” “Electrical Theory.”
Over the past 15 years, the Kansas Department of Corrections banned those titles, and about 7,000 others, from its prisons across the state.
The department says it censors books and magazines that could threaten security. But others argue that the size of the list and the broad topics covered under censorship guidelines limit inmates’ education, make their time in prison that much less bearable and further cut them off from an outside world to which they’ll eventually return.
Interim corrections secretary Chuck Simmons said the department prioritizes safety over giving inmates an unlimited selection of books and magazines.
“We censor based on the impact, or potential impact, on the security and operations of the correctional facility,” he said. “There are other publications that the inmate has access to that can accomplish the same purpose in their education or rehabilitation goals.”
…
“Ultimately, it comes down to control of the population, which I think is especially reflected in the breathtaking array of books that Kansas has made a decision to ban,” she said in a phone interview. “Most of them, I think that the general population would agree are very nonsensical.”
The list includes biographies of musicians such as Kurt Cobain and Tupac, memoirs by raunchy comedians Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce and novels by bestselling authors like Nora Roberts and Dean Koontz.
Also banned are issues of comics like “Deadpool” and “The Walking Dead,” Japanese manga, and books and magazines about LGBTQ topics.
Listen to & read the full artice @ KCUR.org
Here’s the full list:
What’s New & Updated June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019
It’s been a rough week. I’ve got a bunch on deck but this is all I’ve got for you this week, a reorganization of the revised edition of Chase.
- Chase – Revised (DRK)
- Chase – Revised (DK) [formerly Chase – Revised]
Love Antosha trailer
June 14, 2019
Trailer for the documentary feature Love, Antosha
IN THEATERS Aug 2nd
From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, this film looks not just at Anton’s impressive career, but at a broader portrait of the man. Born in the former Soviet Union to a family of artists, Anton and his parents came to the U.S. when he was six months old. He started acting at nine. He had a genuine curiosity and love for people, for art, and for family. And a willingness to explore, and be open with, the darker parts of himself. Love, Antosha explores his successes and his struggles, and let’s viewers get to know this extraordinary person the world was cheated from seeing grow old.
Website: www.antonyelchindoc.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antonyelchin…
Instagram: @antonyelchindoc
Twitter: @antonyelchindoc
Rockin’ the Book World by Robert Burke Warren
June 13, 2019
“What band are you in?” asked the man at the grocery store in Catskill, New York. He was addressing Joe Stefko, whose leonine mane, pegged jeans, and tight black T-shirt personify rock n’ roll.
“I’m not in a band,” Stefko replied. “I’m a book publisher. Really.”
Stefko said folks sometimes don’t believe him, but it’s true. Still, you can’t blame them for asking, as Stefko’s history hangs about him like an aura; before he launched his award-winning one-man publishing imprint, Charnel House, in 1989, he drummed with Meat Loaf and the Turtles. But you won’t find any of that on his company’s website. What you will find are beautiful, provocative, limited edition, signed books by Dean Koontz, Tim Powers, Stephen King (as Richard Bachman), and Harlan Ellison.
How did Stefko’s path twist from sweat-soaked stages to a restored 1790s farmhouse in the Catskill Mountains, where he, his wife, and Charnel House live?
Read the full article @ Fine Books & Collections
Cemetery Dance interviews Joe R. Lansdale
June 11, 2019
Finally got around to reading this recent interview with Joe R. Lansdale. It’s a great read all on it’s own, but it also includes a few mentions of Dean.
Darkle
June 10, 2019
In the past few weeks I’ve seen several tweets about this new word Dean coined in The Night Window: darkle. For the record, according to Merriam-Webster this word has been in the English language since 1800 and does not mean “to sparkle darkly.”
What’s New & Updated June 10, 2019
June 6, 2019
Not a lot this week, but what’s here is interesting IMHO.
- Breathless PPBK w/ promo sticker for What the Night Knows
- Meet Jane Hawk edition of The Silent Corner
And, for those of you interested in stats. Here’s where the site stands right now…
- 660 entries
- 1,749 editions
- 2,224 images
Stopping time
June 4, 2019
Cheryl sent me the following question but her email address bounced my answer. So, in case they see it here…
Q: Please tell me the name of the book where the villain can stop time? I can’t remember it or find. Thank you!
A: I believe you’re thinking of Dragon Tears.