Koontz News
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February 10, 2020
This is all over Twitter. I give up, I can’t not post this…
The wait is nearly over
February 8, 2020
After nearly nine years, my lettered copy of Screamplays is on its way!
What’s New & Updated February 3, 2020
February 3, 2020
Well, the site was stable this week with just some minor bug squashing going on. If you see any PHP errors on a page, please drop me a line and we’ll get them dealt with ASAP. So, without further ado, here’s some new content for you.
- The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists by Mike Ashley to “Cosimc Sin” & The Vision (DRK)
- An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton to Beastchild (novella) & Beasthchild
- TV Guide, October 20-26, 1979 to CHiPs: Counterfeit
- TV Guide, September 29-October 5, 1990 to The Face of Fear (TV)
What’s New & Updated January 20, 2020
January 20, 2020
Ok folks, I’ve finally started digging into the fanzine content in earnest. This stuff is complicated on many levels. First off, Dean says that most of this content, without being specific about which content, isn’t actually by him. I’ve included his comments on the matter wherever appropriate. Second, I’ve listed relevant details and cross-references where I can which can force me to create other holding pages just to make the cross-reference work. Third, the letters. Ugh the letters. ‘Nuff said for now. Fourth, I’ve needed to add two whole new categories to the site: Art and Publisher. The former you can check out now, the latter will have to wait as I get further along. Just consider the placeholder page a massive tease for now.
- The Alien Critic #6 to Demon Seed
- A Dream Given Form: The Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5 to Appendix F
- Good Guy, Bad Guy, Critic
- L’Ange Jacque
- Locus #701 to The Forbidden Door
- Locus #702 to The Night Window
- The Science-Fiction Collector #6 to A Werewolf Among Us
- The Science-Fiction Collector #7 to Fear That Man and Writing Popular Fiction
- The Science-Fiction Collector #14 to The Crimson Witch.
- Way Station (You’re really going to want to check out this one!)
- An additional note from Dean regarding a ghost-author for two chapters of Writing Popular Fiction
Whats New & Updated January 13, 2020
January 13, 2020
Just the one item this week as I’ve been focusing on some other writing assignments and organizing the fanzines as most of them still need to be added to the site. I’m hoping to get to those soon.
- Facebook quote re: Demon Seed‘s original title
The Night Window paperback release date
December 26, 2019
Amazon has listed 25 February 2020 as release date for the (what I assume to be) premium paperback edition of The Night Window.
Devoted is not Jane Hawk #6
December 21, 2019
Not sure which edition’s cover this is supposed to be but the link points to an Amazon.com page that lists this as “Jane Hawk 6” which it is not. More details as I discover them.
We all just bought Dean a very nice new $11.6 million house
December 21, 2019
Checkout out details and more photos via these articles:
Dean’s latest statement on a third Chris Snow book
December 16, 2019
Dean’s Junior Year High School Yearbooks
December 13, 2019
Bedford (PA) High School, The Echo 1962
Whats New & Updated December 9, 2019
December 9, 2019
Looks like this was the week for updating appendices. It wasn’t planned, just how things worked out.
- “According to Dean” for Children’s Hospital in Appendix B
- The Echo 1959-1963, Bedford (PA) High School to Appendix A
- Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature by Bran Stableford to Appendix B
Did Dean get the moon wrong in Velocity?
December 9, 2019
Jeff Cann has some criticism of how Dean described moon phases in Velocity. (Who am I to argue?)
This isn’t just a picture-book problem. As my kids grew, we moved into family story-time with chapter books. And moon mistakes remained a common occurrence. So frequent in fact, that whenever the moon was mentioned in a story, my kids fully expect me to stop reading to endorse or correct the description. It’s usually a correction.
I just read Dean Koontz’s Velocity. I don’t know that much about Koontz, I’m just starting to read his books. Based on the few Koontz books that I’ve read, I gather that many of the stories, like Velocity, take place primarily at night. References to the moon seem common.
And there it was. Mid-way through the book, Koontz steps into a great big, glaring, moon-phase error. Repeatedly. During a long night, Koontz uses the progress of the moon to chronicle passing time. The problem is that beginning at 1:00 a.m., he talks about the “thinnest silver shaving of a new moon.” This “fragile crescent” is high in the sky, and it’s pretty much up there all night. He makes two more references to this moon across the course of the chapter, the night.
Read the full article @ The Other Stuff
Some references from Devoted
December 2, 2019
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Elliot and Haunted House Pinball
Dean Koontz dominates 6 of the top-10 Kindle e-book sales for the holiday by Joshua Fruhlinger
November 27, 2019
Chances are good that many people will be reading on Kindles and smartphones in order to conserve luggage space (and to avoid awkward conversations about book covers), and chances are just as good that many people have already loaded up their devices for the trip. So we took a look at Amazon’s ($NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Store sales ranks for the past couple weeks as we head into Thanksgiving.
And what we found is total Dean Koontz dominance. That’s partially because Koontz is a best-selling author who has sold more than 450 million books, has written more than 100 books, and has had 14 of them hit #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
But this time around he doesn’t need book stores or even the New York Times. That’s because he just released a series of six books (yes, six), and all of them have immediately jumped to the Amazon Kindle top-10 list.
The series is called Nameless. Five of the six books took the top-5 spots in the Kindle Store, and the sixth one took spot 8.
Read the full article @ Thinkum Alternative Data
What’s New & Updated November 25, 2019
November 25, 2019
This week I filled in a hole in my collection with a first edition paperback of Strangers and then got my hands on two ARCs of Devoted. (I’m giving one away.) Let’s say this was a great week.
- Devoted ARC, details for other editions based on the ARC, and marketing images
- Strangers (DRK) mass market paperback, image added and details corrected.
- Supernatural s14e05: Proverbs 17:3 to Ephemera
Congratulations to this week’s Amazon Charts authors…
November 25, 2019
Devoted ARCs are hitting the streets
November 23, 2019
Dean on Nameless
November 18, 2019
Devoted will have a Kindle in motion edition
November 14, 2019
Similar to the Kindle release of Ricochet Joe, the Kindle version of Devoted will be an “In Motion” edition.
This book can be read on any device, including Kindle E-readers. It may include art, animation, or video features that can be viewed on certain Fire tablets and the free Kindle app for iOS and Android. You can switch features on or off at any time.
And have you noticed that the Kindle edition page has a background?
Devoted cover images and excerpt
November 13, 2019
Amazon.com‘s got the cover image up for Devoted and Flavorwire has an animated version of the cover along with an excerpt…
The two-lane blacktop is a dark snake slithering through the moon-washed paleness of the Utah wastelands. In the nearly empty vastness, small clusters of lights glimmer here and there in the distance, like extraterrestrial pod craft that have descended from the mother ship on some nefarious mission.
Traveling south out of the Provo suburbs into ever greater isolation, Lee Shacket dares not take Interstate 15. He uses less-busy state highways, undivided federal highways when he must, anxious to put as much distance as possible between himself and the events at the Springville facility.
If he has committed as much evil as any man in history, he has done it with the best intentions. He believes that those intentions matter more than the consequences of his actions. How could humanity have advanced from caves to orbiting space stations if all men and women were risk averse? Some seek knowledge and rise to challenges at whatever cost, and because of them, progress is made.
Anyway, all may be well in the end. The final result of the project is not yet known, only that it’s gone wrong in mid stage. Every scientific endeavor is marked by setbacks. Ultimately, failure can be the father of success if one learns from the errors made.