Koontz News
Black River: I'll Be Watching Over You
July 2, 2017
Some news & a correction:
According to Charnel House:
“Both states of BLACK RIVER, I’ll Be Watching Over You by Dean Koontz have been shipped. When Dean ends this series of novellas and novelettes Charnel House will issue a slipcase to house the entire series. There are few copies remaining of this title still available for purchase. Order now to own the first book of this series, you can then retain your number for the series.”
Shown right are my numbered edition and a friend’s lettered.
Regarding the lettered edition, my friend isn’t all that happy with it…
“Lettered Black River. . .MASSIVE disappointment. I paid $900 for this, it’s bound in 3/4 leather but otherwise identical to the numbered, no traycase, no slipcase even, no bonus material, nothing. It probably didn’t cost them much more to make and he’s charging $900 per copy.”
I only have a few Charnel House lettered edition personally, mostly due to cost, but I’ve been happy with every one of them. In this case, I might have to agree.
Lastly, the correction:
Black River: I’ll Be Watching Over You is not a sequel to the original “Black River” novella from 1999, it is “Black River” just re-titled. The future novellas in this series will be the sequels.
Dean talks about Jane Hawk
May 23, 2017
The Whispering Room release date & pre-order
April 30, 2017
Amazon.com has The Whispering Room, the second Jane Hawk novel & sequel to The Silent Corner, up for pre-order with a release date of 9 January 2018. Both HC and Kindle editions are available.
Jane Hawk—fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner.
“No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.”
These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.
In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide—and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals—Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But these ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue—and become the nation’s most wanted fugitive—in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.
Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.
Charnel House news
April 26, 2017
The Charnel House news page is reporting the following two items:
THE SILENT CORNER by Dean Koontz is in pre-order for a July release.
BLACK RIVER, I’ll Be Watching Over Yo by Dean Koontz is at the printer and due at the bindery in May for a June release.
Signed copies of The Silent Corner
April 17, 2017
Much later in the game that has been typical for the past several new titles, Barnes & Noble now has signed copies of The Silent Corner up for pre-order. No word yet from Target.
Another move of The Silent Corner release date
March 26, 2017
Today Amazon sent me the following shipping update:
Koontz, Dean “The Silent Corner: A Novel of Suspense”
Estimated arrival date: June 20, 2017
Darkfall (finally) in the UK
March 21, 2017
Look what just arrived… (Turns out I missed this release back on 5 May 2016)
"An Elegant and Exalted Enterprise"
March 20, 2017
The Holiday 2016 issue of The Companion, the electronic newsletter of Canine Companions for Independence has Dean & Gerda on the cover and contains a one-page piece titled “An Elegant and Exalted Enterprise.” I’ve archived a copy here and the original can be found here.
Novelist Dean Koontz and his wife, Gerda, have been loyal and passionate supporters of Canine Companions since the 1990s. Dean has penned six books that showcase the Koontzes’ love for the released and retired Canine Companions dogs they’ve adopted.The author’s proceeds from the books are donated to their dogs’ alma mater. On top of that, the Koontzes have also provided extraordinary financial contributions to Canine Companions and are the Southwest Region’s campus benefactors.
Recently, Dean put pen to paper to reflect on why our mission resonates so deeply with him. The result is something to which we all relate, but only a best-selling author could write.
The Silent Corner on TV; Six-book series
March 17, 2017
Best-selling author Dean Koontz’s forthcoming book The Silent Corner is going to get the TV treatment.
Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have optioned the FBI drama ahead of its June publication by Bantam, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. A network is not yet attached.
The book revolves around FBI agent Jane Hawk, who after she starts to learn why people of talent and accomplishment who are happy and of sound mind are killing themselves for no apparent reason, becomes the most wanted fugitive in America. The powerful cabal she confronts is completely unprepared to stop a woman driven by a rage born of love who is as clever and courageous as its members are cold-blooded.
Koontz plans to write at least five more books featuring Jane Hawk, with Silent Corner being the first out.
Read the whole article @ The Hollywood Reporter.
Ten new MP3-CD audio editions released
March 15, 2017
Ten collections, twenty titles…
Charnel House editions of "Black River: I'll Be Watching Over You"
March 13, 2017
Click either of the images for the relevant ordering pages.
Perihelion
March 13, 2017
Hey, did you all know that Perilehion relaunched back in November as an online SF magazine? Sadly, it does not include an archive from back in the day.
The Silent Corner release date moved again
March 12, 2017
I just received an e-mail from Amazon indicating that the release date for The Silent Corner has been reset back to its original release date of 6 June 2017. The listing on their site has been updated accordingly and we’re back to the date listed on the ARC. (The paper edition of which arrived at my home yesterday.)
No pre-signed editions of The Silent Corner?
March 12, 2017
The last several titles Dean’s released (Saint Odd and Ashely Bell off the top of my head,) have had pre-signed editions come out from stores like Barnes & Noble and Target. So far, with the release just a few months away, there are not (yet?) signed editions listed at either of these stores. This has me wondering if there’ll just be a standard trade edition released. I’ll keep you posted if/when more information becomes available.
Blood Risk as by Dean Koontz?
March 5, 2017
An lastly of this week’s finds we have Locus #115, 23 June 1972…
In this case Dean has sold Blood Risk to Bobbs-Merrill. Oddly enough, it doesn’t mention the Brian Coffey pseudonym implying, to me, that this was another title that was originally intended to come out under his own name originally. (And to this day, it still hasn’t.)
Beatschild film part 2 & Shattered originally as by Dean Koontz?
March 5, 2017
Continuing to work my way through some recent finds we come to Locus #120, 25 August 1972…
According to this this issue the option on the yet to be filmed Beastchild was renewed at least once and, maybe more interestingly, Shattered had been sold to Random House “under [his] own name.” In the end, as we all know it came out under the K.R. Dwyer pseudonym. I wonder what happened there.
Enter to win an ARC of The Silent Corner
March 5, 2017
goodreads is giving away 25 ARCs of The Silent Corner and you’ve got just a little more than two days left to enter.
Reselling lawsuit dismissed
March 5, 2017
A follow-up to this story…
LAS VEGAS (CN) – Best-selling author Dean Koontz doesn’t directly do business in Nevada and can’t be sued on fraud claims by a Nevadan who says Koontz kept valuable signed works instead of selling them.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro dismissed a complaint filed by Raymond Davis that accused Koontz of keeping a valuable collection of signed literature formerly owned by John Paul Bodner.
Koontz and Davis were mutual friends with Bodner, who passed away in 2012.
Davis said Bodner gave him a collection books written by Koontz, many of which the author signed.
Davis said he sought his help in selling them, and Koontz agreed to sell them on consignment in 2013.
But instead of selling the books, Davis said Koontz kept them and refuses to return them. Davis sued Koontz last year, and accused the author of fraud, conversion and unjust enrichment.
Koontz sought dismissal due to a lack of personal jurisdiction.
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Navarro dismissed Davis’ claim without prejudice, noting he could request permission to amend his complaint.
Read the full article @ Courthouse News Service.
Films Into Books -or- There's more than one John Hill in the world
March 5, 2017
There are a lot of reference books out there that were very useful in the pre-Internet days and they we marketed to, and mostly sold to libraries. Here’s one of them form 1995:
Beyond a very long bibliography of film and TV novelizations there’s essays on authors ranging from Piers Anthony to Robert Block to John Jakes. Dean gets two mentions in the first chapter since he wrote the novelization of The Funhouse.
Sadly, this book also includes some mis-information:
Just as Dean didn’t write Stolen Thunder under the pseudonym David Axton (Prison of Ice), there’s never been any proof that he wrote the novelization for the film Heartbeeps under the name John Hill (The Long Sleep.)
For reference, here’s the paperback in question:
Working with Vaughn Bodé
February 26, 2017
I don’t know exactly what project this book (originally from 1974) is referring to but that paragraph is a quote from Dean. It may be referring to an unreleased screenplay based on Bodé’s The Amorous Adventures of Puck, of which previously I don’t believe I’ve mentioned on this blog.
