Koontz News
Charnel House edition of Ashley Bell shipping soon
November 23, 2015
According to the Charnel House Web site:
ASHLEY BELL by Dean Koontz will be shipping the first week in December. It will be released simultaneously with the Random House trade edition. There are few copies remaining and will ship in time for Christmas.
"Post-Novel Confusion: Ashley Bell" by Dean Koontz
November 1, 2015
Each time I finish a novel, there is a day or two of euphoria, an irrational feeling that I have beaten death rather than just a deadline. I am more than half convinced that I could stand in front of a speeding freight train and survive. I have never tested this conviction, but only out of consideration for the cost to the railroad company and the potential injuries to the crew if the train should derail on contact with my invulnerable self.
Red the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
"So Much Glamour You Want to Puke" by Dean Koontz
November 1, 2015
Back in the day, when my novel Phantoms was being turned into a film by Miramax, through their Rogue division, Gerda and I were invited to the Miramax party following the Golden Globe Awards. At the time, that party was always described in the media as the one for which all the most glamorous people sought invitations. The impression was given that the stars so desired being at this soiree that Julia Roberts might have beaten the crap out of Woody Allen and stolen his invitation if she could have gotten away with it. So I put on a tux, and Gerda dressed beautifully for the occasion, and we drove less than a block, from the Peninsula Hotel, where we were staying, to the hotel where the party was being thrown, expecting to be agape for several hours, stunned by the lavish decorations and the presence of a virtual hornet’s nest of movie stars.
Read the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
FINAL HOUR by Dean Koontz On-Sale Now
November 1, 2015
Who is Ashley Bell?
November 1, 2015
"Taking Our Dog Out to Dinner" by Dean Koontz
October 25, 2015
We enjoy going out to dinner. We do not enjoy leaving our golden retriever, Anna, at home while we go out to dinner. For one thing, we miss her. There’s also the fact that we worry, should we leave her home alone too often, she’ll one day write a tell-all about us, including such humiliating details as my passion for bunny slippers. Which would be a damnable lie. Besides, we bristle at the injustice of her being denied service. She’s well-behaved, cute, and never barks. I can claim none of those three virtues, and yet I am welcome in every restaurant.
Read the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
"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:
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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.