Koontz News
The Singular John D. MacDonald
January 18, 2014
For those of you looking forward to reading Dean’s new introductions to the novels of John D. MacDonald, I’ve got good news and bad news.
The bad news: Dean’s only written a single introduction titled “The Singular John D. MacDonald” and it’s being printed in all of the different non-Travis McGee novels that Ransom House is re-issuing. In other words, Dean has written an essay about the author, not an essay about each book.
The good news: You need only purchase one book if your intention was just to read Dean’s intro. (Though I’d suggest reading your way through Mr. MacDonald novels anyway.)
"The Limited" – New York Times Book Review
December 29, 2013
Chase on CD
December 28, 2013
Looks like the novel Chase is finally getting both an audio CD and MP3-CD release on June 10, 2104. No cover art is available yet.
Phantoms Trade Paperback cover
December 28, 2013
Order today for a January 7, 2014 delivery.
A Special Thank You from Dean Koontz
December 15, 2013
I would like to thank public library staffs all across the country for choosing INNOCENCE for their LibraryReads December 2013 Top Ten list. As a child in a family too poor to afford books, libraries were my lifeline. And when I couldn’t pay the overdue fines, they let it slide. I think I owe them $206,514—so I’m delighted they’ve forgiven me and done me this honor with INNOCENCE!
Read the full post @ Random Revelations.
Dean Koontz: What I’m Giving
December 11, 2013
In this special series, we asked writers we admire to share a book they’re giving to their friends and family this holiday season. Check back daily to see the books your favorite authors are gifting.
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Kate DiCamillo has written several wonderful books — among them The Tale of Despereaux, The Magician’s Elephant, Because of Winn-Dixie — all of which would make wonderful gifts. If I had to choose just one, it would be The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Ms. DiCamillo is known as a writer for children and has won numerous awards in that field, including the Newbery Medal, but she is a storyteller of such grace and charm that her books provide as much pleasure for adults as for children. Children will never feel that she is writing down to them, and adults will never feel that her writing is too simple, for it is in fact complex in theme and rich in emotion. Few writers have ever made me laugh out loud and, in the same book, moved me to tears, but Ms. DiCamillo does both, book after book.
Read the full essay @ Powells Books Blog.
Innocence arrives today
December 10, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Xe6dZeaus
Buy it @ Amazon.com.
Innocence sans Wilderness
December 10, 2013
I have it on good authority that the Charnel House editions of Innocence will not include Wilderness. However, publisher Joe Stefko is looking to do a separate edition of Wilderness but that is yet to be confirmed.
Innocence limited editions up for pre-order
December 7, 2013
Charnel House is once again producing both a numbered and lettered edition of Innocence.
Innocence, by Dean Koontz.
The Signed Limited Edition
Dean compassionately illustrates the beauty and the brutality inherent in the human race. He splits the atom with this one.
Arguably the most beautiful book Charnel House has created to date. Paper has been handmade for this edition by randomly pouring two colors into the process, creating different cloud-like patterns on each sheet. Each unique book resembles a thick chunk of a cloudy blue sky.
A harlequin faced marionette drawn by Phil Parks and printed in two colors by hand via letterpress will be tipped in every book.
Each exquisitely printed book is sewn and bound by hand and finished off with a white silk ribbon bookmark. Each book is hand signed by the author.
5.75 X 8.75 trim / 396 pages
150 Numbered copies:
Bound in full Cloudy Sky paper
$350.00
26 Lettered copies:
Bound in full Cloudy Sky paper with baby blue Moroccan leather along both fore-edges
$1,000.00
Saint Odd release date
December 7, 2013
According to the Holidays 2013 issue of Useless News the final Odd Thomas book, Saint Odd, will be published in December 2014. No further details have been made available at this time.
The Holidays 2013 issue of Useless News has arrived
December 7, 2013
Interview in December issue of Book Page
December 1, 2013
The December 2013 issue of Book Page contains a full-page interview titled “Finding Hope in Life’s Dark Side” by Jay Macdonald.
The print version of Book Page can be found in some bookstores (including Books-A-Million) and at many libraries around the country. The cover and the ads are customized for the distribution point, but all contain the same basic content.
If you’re unable to find a print copy, you can also find the interview on the Book Page Web site.
New Edition of "Love of Goldens" available
December 1, 2013
A third hardcover edition of Love of Goldens has been released. This time with a new cover photograph and sans dust jacket. And, according to the sticker on the cover, this edition is exclusive to the Books-A-Million bookstore. Unfortunately I can’t find it on their Web site so if you want a copy, you’ll need access to a BAM or a friend who lives near one.
For those unaware of this bargain book, it contains “A Mind of Its Own” by Dean, which is actually an excerpt from Watchers.
Sarasota author John MacDonald's work on the verge of a renaissance
November 24, 2013
So many of John D. MacDonald’s books had gone out of print in recent years that fans often had to settle for dog-eared used copies, sometimes at collector prices. E-books were not available at all.
But now, nearly 30 years after his death, one of Sarasota’s most prominent and admired writers is experiencing a literary rebirth.
Random House, the world’s largest trade publishing house, is re-issuing its complete library of MacDonald’s output, ranging from crime thrillers such as “Cape Fear” (originally “The Executioners”) to more obscure works that even dipped into science fiction.
Of the 71 books, none have previously been available as e-books and more than 30 had been out of print since the 1990s. All of the works, including those that had remained in print, will have new covers and introductions.
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Tavani said that best-selling contemporary writers, including Stephen King, a part-time Casey Key resident, have championed the revival. Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series, wrote a new introduction for the McGee series. Another writer, Dean Koontz, authored the introduction for MacDonald’s non-McGee books.
Read the full article @ HeraldTribune.com.
Secret Forest coming in 2015
November 24, 2013
As if 2014 news wasn’t enough for you, you’re going to have to wait until 7 July 2015 for Secret Forest.
(Amazon.com is not yet listing a release date but Amazon.ca is listing the 7 July 2015 date so for now I’m going with that.)
The City coming in 2014
November 24, 2013
It looks like Dean’s next novel is titled The City and will be released on 8 July 2014.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz is at the peak of his acclaimed powers with this major new novel—a rich, multi-layered story that moves back and forth across decades and generations as a gifted musician relates the “terrible and wonderful” events that began in his city in 1967, when he was ten.
There are millions of stories in the city—some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk’s story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his indomitable grandfather, also a “piano man”; his single mother, a struggling singer; and the heroes, villains, and everyday saints and sinners who make up the fabric of the metropolis in which they live—and who will change the course of Jonah’s life forever. Welcome to The City, a place of evergreen dreams where enchantment and malice entwine, where courage and honor are found in the most unexpected corners and the way forward lies buried deep inside the heart.
Dragon Tears next to get the trade paperback treatment
November 24, 2013
Set a reminder for 6 May 2014 as that’s the release date for the $16.00 trade paperback edition of Dragon Tears. (Or you could of course pre-order your copy today.)
Charnel House editions update
November 24, 2013
According to the Charnel House Web site:
The numbered edition of Odd Interlude is out of print.
and
Both states of DEEPLY ODD are currently being shipped.
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything cover image
November 9, 2013
Looks like the new John D. MacDonald editions with intros by Dean will not mention Dean on the cover. At at least judging from the cover of The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything.
Wilderness is out today
October 29, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR18yYt2X3k
With this darkly intriguing original e-short story (available on October 29, 2013), #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz sets the stage for his masterly new novel of mystery, suspense, and strange wonder—INNOCENCE.
“The world is a machine that produces endless surprises and mysteries layered on mysteries.”
Addison Goodheart is a mystery even to himself. He was born in an isolated home surrounded by a deep forest, never known to his father, kept secret from everyone but his mother, who barely accepts him. She is haunted by private demons and keeps many secrets—none of which she dreads more than the young son who adores her.
Only in the woods, among the wildlife, is Addison truly welcome. Only there can he be at peace. Until the day he first knows terror, the day when his life changes radically and forever . .