Koontz News
"Opening Lines" by Dean Koontz
October 25, 2015
A year ago or more, when answering letters from readers (real letters, not e-mails, as there is not enough time to answer even a fraction of reader e-mails), I started asking which opening lines in my books they thought were the most compelling. A little marketing research, if you will. And I learned a few things from their choices, including that no matter how long you have been writing, there is value in feedback from readers. These first lines received the most votes:
Read the full article @ DeanKoontz.com.
"Photo Session" by Dean Koontz
October 25, 2015
My publisher recently sent a highly regarded photographer to take a few new book-jacket and publicity photos of me. No one said it was because in order to make me appear appealing, a photographer of extraordinary talent was needed, with special lighting, and sixteen image consultants. But I knew. I knew.
Read the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
Register Book Club will host Dean Koontz at its January event
October 25, 2015
The Register Book Club has selected Dean Koontz’s upcoming novel, “Ashley Bell,” as our next community read.
Please join us, and come hear Koontz, one of America’s top-selling authors, discuss the book at our public event in January.
The book is due in stores Dec. 8. We’ll read and discuss it, with regular chats online and on social media. Join the conversation at the Register Book Club’s Facebook Group. Follow along on Twitter with #OCRBookClub.
The novel is set in Orange County, as many Koontz novels are – mostly in Newport Beach, where he lives.
More @ OCRegister.com
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1 images w/ Dialogue
October 17, 2015
Comic Book Resources has images from the first issue, this time including dialogue.
Ask Anna trade paperback
October 17, 2015
Another Dedication to Dean
October 7, 2015
I received my Cemetery Dance limited edition of Bentley Little’s The Revelation yesterday and what do I find on the dedication page?
Special thanks to:
…
Dean Koontz, an influence who became a friend and ally, for teaching me the ropes and treating me as though I was somebody—when I wasn’t.
These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!
October 7, 2015
For those of you that haven’t yet read this wonderful essay by Dean now have another chance in the 60th Anniversary Edition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, published by Touchstone yesterday.
Dean's now on Instagram
October 3, 2015
Ask Anna paperback cover
October 2, 2015
Details on Frankenstein: Storm Surge #3
September 27, 2015
From the October 2010 issue of Previews.
Someone @ Primatech reads Dean Koontz
September 27, 2015
From the first double-episode of Heroes Reborn…
"I Have a New Computer" by Dean Koontz
September 26, 2015
Here’s a excerpt from another new essay on DeanKoontz.com:
If you saw CBS Sunday Morning a couple years ago, when Anthony Mason and his crew (all great people; they made it fun), came to Koontzland to do an interview, you will have seen my 20-year-old computer system that so puzzled Anthony, he said, “What is that?!?” I told him I’d just traded in my steam-driven computer. In truth, for a long time, I dreaded changing to a new system and learning a new software, because I thought the learning phase would slow me and inhibit creativity. To a writer, inhibited creativity is more to be feared than great white sharks and mad gunmen, or even mad gunmen who are great white sharks…
"A Crisis of Extraordinary Proportions" by Dean Koontz
September 26, 2015
This essay in the latest issue of Useless News (Summer 2015) has also been posted on DeanKoontz.com.
Maybe it’s a genetic abnormality, maybe it’s a dark knot in my psychology that can never be untied, but whatever the reason, I never much liked chocolate milk. Chocolate, yes. Milk, yes. But the two combined always seemed to me to be a culinary experiment less successful than trout ice cream. Then, a few years ago, Gerda——who doesn’t share my long list of food quirks ——brought home a half-gallon container of Hood’s Calorie Countdown chocolate milk. My life was forever changed.
Hood’s is headquartered 3,000 miles from me, in Massachusetts, where I have never been and where, therefore, I couldn’t even be certain that they had cows or knew about chocolate. Yet here was a sublime concoction, more chocolatey than the bland chocolate milks I had known before, like a liquid version of the chocolatiest of chocolate ice creams, yet only 90 calories a glass. The vicissitudes of life ceased to bother me. I no longer worried about planet-killing asteroids plunging toward Earth or that some demonic TV network would resurrect the old series My Mother the Car…
Pre-signed copies of Ashley Bell
September 26, 2015
It looks like Barnes & Noble is offering signed copies of the next book Ashley Bell as they’ve done with other recent titles. Currently they have it listed for $20.72 with an 9781101965818.
Last Light available today
September 8, 2015
Don’t forget, Last Light, the first of two eNovella prequels to Ashley Bell was released this morning and is available on all major platforms.
Ashely Bell ARC
September 2, 2015
Weighing in at 560 pages, there goes my weekend.
Horrorstruck: The World of Dark Fantasy
August 29, 2015
Last week I found a full nine-issue run of Horrorstruck magazine from back in the late 80s with which Dean had a connection. Through the magic of the Internet I contacted the magazine’s editor and was able to get the details filled in. Here’s the entry as it currently reads in the manuscript followed by the relevant cover images.
Horrorstruck: The World of Dark Fantasy
(magazine)
Paul F. Olson, Editor-in-Chief
Dean R. Koontz, contributing editor
Horrorstruck was a nine-issue magazine published bi-monthly by Paul F. Olson from 1987 through 1988. The first four issues list Dean as one of several “contributing editors” and a “Coming next issue” segment on page 44 of the first issue states that Dean will be publishing a column starting in issue #2. However no contribution ever appeared. I contacted Mr. Olson in August 2015 and here’s what he had to say:
“The story with Dean is quite simple: he committed to being a regular contributor to Horrorstruck and then got incredibly busy and was unable to follow through. He told me a few weeks before deadline that he would have to skip the first issue but would be in issue two for sure. Then the same thing happened again. After three or four issues, he finally fessed up that he would not be able to keep his promise, and I quietly removed him from the list of contributing editors.”
The four issues listing Dean as a contributing editor are dates as follows: May/June 1987, July/August 1987, September/October 1987, and November/December 1987.
Ashley Bell "Target Edition"
August 22, 2015
The “Target Edition” of the forthcoming Ashley Bell can across my feeds last night and all ISBN.nu has to say about it is that the ISBN is 9781101965825. My guess at this point is that, like other recent hardcover releases, Target will be offering an autographed edition under a different ISBN than the standard trade edition. As always, I’ll post more as I find it.
Ashley Bell prequel eNovellas now available for pre-order
August 21, 2015
The previously mentioned two eNovellas that preface Ashley Bell are now available for pre-order. Click either of the covers to link to their Amazon/Kindle pages or head on over to DeanKoontz.com for other platforms.
Last Light:
From bestselling author Dean Koontz comes an eBook original novella, the first of two tales that pave the way for Ashley Bell, his new novel of dark suspense! A woman with a good heart and a troubling gift. A man with a twisted soul and a terrifying talent. In this literal war of wills, only one can survive.
With just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.
With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder.
In a place as big as Southern California, these two might have never met and discovered one another’s chilling abilities. But good and evil have a way of colliding . . . with shattering consequences.
Final Hour:
Following Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original tales tying in toAshley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of dark suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz!
Details about the next Frankenstein comic from Previews
July 30, 2015
