Koontz News
I see dead people, keptin!
February 13, 2011
I’m sure he’ll do fine but the fresh memories of Anton Yelchin’s Russian accent as Chekov in 2009’s Star Trek, just wouldn’t leave my mind when I heard that he’s been cast in the upcoming Odd Thomas film. Do you think he’s right for the part?
Cheaper re-releases on their way
February 6, 2011
On April 26th, Bantam will be re-issuing the Dark Rivers of the Heart, Icebound, and Winter Moon mass-market paperbacks for just $5.99 each with special announcements as such on the covers.
Two more trade paperback re-releases on their way
February 6, 2011
Surfing around I just stumbled over the forthcoming trade paperback re-releases of The Eyes of Darkness and Hideaway coming out on April 5th and June 7th respectively. Both include Afterwords as with other previously releases in this series.
Three covers for Nevermore #2
February 5, 2011
According to Previews Issue 269 it looks like there’s going to be three different covers for Nevermore #2.
Borders bookmark ephemera
February 5, 2011
Found this at a Borders bookstore last night:
Dean re-returns to science ficiton
January 29, 2011
I recently discovered that in March of this year, the Nevermore comic series “Created by Dean Koontz” will be released by Dynamite, the current publishers of Dean’s Frankenstein comics. The interesting bit, is that none of the articles I’ve found online (1,2,3,4,5,6) mention that Nevermore #1 and #2 were previously released in March and June of 2009 respectively, by Dabel Brothers. (As I understand it, Dabel brothers went out of business shortly thereafter.) So the question is, will the first two issues of this “new” series be reprints of the original first two issues or not? Keep an eye out for further details as I find them. (Oh, and don’t miss the fact that there will be four different covers released for issue #1.)
Here are the images that I’ve been able to find online:
One more thing, an online article by Zac Turgeon is based on a “10 page preview” of issue #1. Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a copy of that?
Dean on Blu-ray for better or for worse
January 26, 2011
The film High Tension, often pointed out as a complete rip-off of Intensity, has been released on Blu-ray.
Two new reprints in the next two months
January 25, 2011
A new trade paperback edition of The Door to December will be released by NAL on February 1st. The cover lists that it includes an afterword and considering it doesn’t say “a new afterword” I’m guessing it’s the same one as in the previously released Signet mass market paperback edition.
Then on March 1st, a new paperback of The Voice of the Night will be released with “a new afterword”. At this point I’m assuming it’s in the premium format given the $9.99 cover price and the fact that other recent reprints have been in that format.
Frankenstein updates
January 25, 2011
Just in case you missed it, the premium paperback edition of Frankenstein: Lost Souls was released today. (However, Amazon.com does list it as a mass market paperback.)
And on May 24th we’ll see the release of the fifth book in the series, Frankenstein: The Dead Town. This is being released as a mass market original, completely skipping a trade hardcover release.
Double the Odd
January 15, 2011
It looks like the major book clubs (New Literary Guild, SFCB, &tc.) are releasing an exclusive Dean Koontz title Double the Odd. The amusing part is that none of the sites selling it seem to have a description or a cover image available, just a release date of February 28, 2010. My guess is that it’s a two-in-on edition of In Odd We Trust and Odd Is On Our Side. My copy is on order and I’ll report as soon as I know anything else. If anyone has additional information please leave it in the comments.
What am I working on this week?
January 2, 2011
Here’s the pile of what I’m working on this weekend:
Podcast Interviews
January 2, 2011
Dean’s done an interview for the National Review’s Between the Covers with John J. Miller podcast on What the Night Knows. It seems he also did one back in 2007 regarding the release of Darkest Evening of the Year.
eBook Only
December 19, 2010
Graphically Dean
December 19, 2010
I’m getting caught up today so here’s another post, this time pointing out some graphical recent releases:
Corny? You Bet
December 19, 2010
Did you know that today’s issue of Parade (stuck inside your Sunday paper) features a three-paragraph essay from Dean along with a recipe for The Best Baked Corn? Here’s an excerpt:
One new Koontz book out, two forthcoming, and another new book by me
October 17, 2010
Here’s a new one you might have missed: Pages 97 though 100 of On Gratitude by Todd Aaron Jensen feature new content from Dean on what he’s grateful for.
Last weekend I received an advance reading copy of What the Night Knows courtsey of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program and read it in just three days. I throughly enjoyed it and I bet you will to.
From the looks of things in Amazon.com the fifth book in the Frankenstein series, Frankenstein: Dead Town, will not be coming out in hardcover but in mass market paperback and audio CD editions only. (Though I’m guessing that the paperback will be actually in the larger premium format.)
Lastly, on a non-Dean Koontz note, my latest book Blogging and RSS: A Librarian’s Guide – Second Edition was officially released last week.
Two new online interviews
September 19, 2010
In the past week I’ve found the following two new Interviews with Dean online. One dealing with the new series of Frankenstein comics, and the other with video games.
Newsarama: DEAN KOONTZ Likes Graphic Changes to FRANKENSTEIN Novels
Game Rant:Author Dean Koontz On Storytelling & Gaming
Darkness Under the Sun eBook exclusive
September 13, 2010
Just announced on the Dean Koontz Mailing list:
This Halloween you can enjoy Darkness Under the Sun, an all-new eBook novella from Dean!
The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween—or for any haunted night—and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of the forthcoming novel What the Night Knows.
Darkness Under the Sun, a Random House eBook, will be available everywhere October 25, 2010. You can also preorder it right now!
Learn more about Darkness Under the Sun [on DeanKoontz.com]
You can pre-order it on Amazon.com and BN.com right now.
Get "The Black Pumpkin" for just $12.98
September 6, 2010
For those of you that haven’t already read “The Black Pumpkin” you’ve obviously missed the December 1986 issue of Twilight Zone Magazine and Cemetery Dance’s October Dreams (either from Cemetery Dance or from ROC, all our of print) you can now find a bargain book edition from Fall River Press retitled Halloween Horrors. I found this yesterday at my local Barnes & Noble for the list price of $12.98.
As a bargain book it is listed on the Barned & Noble site, but it’s not available for ordering there. Neither is it listed on Amazon.com since Fall River Press is an imprint of Barnes & Noble.
A previously unknown bit of writing by Dean?
August 28, 2010
Ok, I’m not exactly announcing a new pseudonym here but I’ve never seen this bit of writing by dean mentioned anywhere. The books is Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, Second Edition from St. Martin’s Press published in 1985. This is one of those oversized reference books that are typically only held by rare bookstores and library reference collections. For each author there is a bibliography, brief biography, and a short essay about the author. (In this case the essay is by Ed Gorman.) However, this book differs from others of its type because it contains additional text described thus: “Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work.” And you guessed it, Dean wrote some “comments” on his work. Four paragraphs to be exact. For copyright reasons I won’t be presenting the complete text here but I will leave you with this quote:
“Phantoms, a long novel that attempts to stretch the horror novel to encompass a rational world-view, was published in 1983, and was something of a sidestep in my career, for at this time I do not intend to do any more straight horror novels in the future, although it, too, has sold well.”
I don’t know if the same text appears in the First Edition. I of course will be on the lookout.
UPDATE: I found a copy of the first edition in my local library and Dean is not included in that edition. So, as far as I can tell this content is unique to this book/edition.