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Dean Contributes to Silent Auction Supporting The Lakewood Playhouse
August 31, 2014
Lakewood Playhouse’s 2014 Silent Auction features over 40 signed novels by some of the world’s greatest authors of crime fiction.
“We try to do something special with our Silent Auction every season,” said Managing Artistic Director, JOHN MUNN, “And this year is no exception.”
Thanks to Board President, Harlan Zinck, the Lakewood Playhouse has acquired signed novels by some of the World’s Greatest Authors working in Crime Fiction.
We will be running a Silent Auction throughout the run of Agatha Christie‘s “And Then There Were None” (September 12th through October 12th, 2014) with the much sought-after books going to the highest bidder!
Just some of the highlights of from the forty-plus Authors in the auction include Signed Copies of Novels by: Simon Brett, Jim Butcher, Lee Child, Lindsay Davis, Nelson DeMille, Earl Emerson, Janet Evanovich, Gillian Flynn, Charlaine Harris, J.A. Jance, Dean Koontz, Sara Paretsky and Scott Turow.
Read the full article @ Broadway World Seattle.
The City Sweepstakes
August 31, 2014
Have you entered yet?
Korean Odd Thomas advertisements
August 13, 2014
Picked up this Korean one-sheet recently. Film ad on one side, books on the other. Those book covers are so cool, I’m now on the hunt for a set despite having no idea how to read Korean.
Edible Dean Koontz books?
August 9, 2014
Someone in Titusville, PA made food based on a Dean Koontz book!
Benson Memorial Library wanted to be a part of the annual Oil Festival, so they threw their hat into the ring with the first ever “Incredible Edible Book Challenge,” and it was a hit with festival patrons.
The challenge, which took place outside the library on Friday evening, featured 13 edible works of art, based on a variety of books.
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The adult top prize went to Nicole Schmidt, whose creation was based on “The Mask,” by Dean Koontz.
I do plan on trying to track down more details, hopefully photos. Read the full article @ The Titusville Herald.
Discuss the City
August 9, 2014
The site Book Browse has an online discussion, with starting questions, for The City. Check it out @ BookBrowse.com. (Free registration is required to participate.)
Dean's in Focus
August 8, 2014
Dean is currently the “Writer in Focus” on the UK Nook site.
The Dail Mail "introduces" Dean to the UK
August 4, 2014
From Dean Koontz to Anita Shreve: Between them they have sold 23 million books in the UK… but who are they?
You might know Stephen King or Danielle Steel. But what about Lesley Pearse or Karin Slaughter? These authors have sold an amazing 23, 342, 129 copies in the UK alone. So before you take them on holiday let Max Davidson make some introductions…
Dean Koontz
Total UK sales: 3.6 million
Who is he? A 68-year-old from Pennsylvania who had an abusive childhood. Converted to Catholicism when he was a student. Published numerous books under pseudonyms before achieving his breakthrough.
Read the full article @ The Daily Mail.
Portraits without faces
July 31, 2014
And somewhere on each list there is a surprise, some little-known fact that the subjects thought was important enough to include in their top 10. Colin Powell likes cars (a Volvo Amazon 122 to be exact), composer and violinist Itzhak Perlman loves the Mets, Jane Goodall reads horror writer Dean Koontz, and author Joyce Carol Oates included no personal references whatsoever, not even one of the more-than 80 books she’s written, except for one specific lock of the Erie Canal just outside the town where she grew up.
Read the full article @ The Palm Beach Post.
Blogs on the By the Book interview
July 31, 2014
A few other are starting to comment on the recent NYT Book Review interview.
- Dean Koontz’s Reading Assignments – First Things
- Dean Koontz praises Flannery O’Connor, disses Virginia Woolf… – The Catholic World Report
The City ARC typos strike again
July 24, 2014
Wow, guess I missed a whole bunch as Erik’s found two more:
Page #377: “The swine who owned the this empire of tenements and the …..”
Page #391: “Amalia always haunted him, but he let despair lead him wrong only that once, when he was twentytwo and left the city…”
Could this be O.C.'s biggest home?
July 23, 2014
When completed, the house will surpass Hot Pockets millionaire Paul Merage’s 34,000-square-foot compound in Newport Coast, county assessor’s records show.
A 17-bedroom, hilltop home in San Clemente measuring 28,867 square feet appears to be the county’s second-biggest home currently, and a Newport Coast compound owned by suspense-thriller author Dean Koontz is third-biggest at 27,219 square feet. Newport Coast’s Villa del Lago, which a Japanese industrialist bought out of bankruptcy, measures 17,700 square feet.
Read the full article @ OCRegister.com.
Remembering Vaughn Bodé
July 22, 2014
Today would have been artist Vaughn Bodé’s 79th birthday. He and Dean were fiends back in the day, and he illustrated The Underground Lifestyles Handbook among other things. (Check out the name badge on the lizard pictured right.)
Remembering Vaughn Bodé by Craig Yoe with Steven Thompson
“Unique” is a word that gets thrown around too easily these days. Everything is unique. This is unique, that’s unique, and this thing is MORE uniquely unique than that not quite as unique thing over there!
Usually artists, especially comics artists, take the approach of studying the output of a few individuals whose work they admire. If they do it right, this results in a rich combo of their visual mentors and they develop their own personal style. A very few artists draw deep from their inner selves with seemingly no influences whatsoever. Their art achieves a look with no ancestry–it’s new, it’s different! Vaughn Bodé‘s art is like that. I can’t think of anyone with whom to compare him. Vaughn Bodé was, in the truest sense of the word… UNIQUE!
Read the full article @ 13th Dimension.
Dynamite Entertainment's CEO on 10 Years of Explosive Comics
July 22, 2014
These days, both Army of Darkness and Red Sonja remain high-profile parts of a portfolio that Barrucci described as “very balanced.” (Army of Darkness No. 1992.1, a special issue featuring creators throughout the series’ run was announced Monday, as was an upcoming event series anchored by Red Sonja). “We have long-standing licenses affiliated with comic books, from the Kings Feature Syndicate’s Flash Gordon to Red Sonja, from Conde Nast’sThe Shadow and Doc Savage to the Gold Key line of Solar, Turok, and Magnus,” he listed. “Movies, television, and even gaming are well-represented in titles like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Battlestar Galactica ,Grimm, Army of Darkness, Bob’s Burgers, Pathfinder, and Six Million Dollar Man. Novelists have chosen to expand their worlds with Dynamite, as with Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson and Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files as well asDean Koontz, Brandon Sanderson and so many other great authors. I can name-drop all day, but my point is that – with so many licenses from such diverse media—we hope to appeal to audiences far and wide, whether comic fans or not.”
Read the full article @ The Hollywood Reporter.
Another typo in The City ARC found
July 13, 2014
This one was found by Erick Garcia and occurs on page 210 of the ARC. The missing hyphen was found in time for the trade release. I’d say this kind of typo is a lot more common than the other one.
Koontz Kindle Single Jumps up Ebook Best-Seller List, Hachette Holds on
July 11, 2014
A Kindle Single from Dean Koontz and Penguin Random House has broken into the top-five of the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list, a first for this list.
…The Neighbor by Dean Koontz is both a standalone Kindle Single selling for $0.99 as well as a prequel to a new novel from Koontz, The City, which came out July 1. The Neighbor is currently No. 4 on the ebook best-seller list. With less than a full week of sales, The City is currently No. 50 on the list (and therefore does not appear below). We’ll keep close watch over the next few weeks to see if and when The City has success that follows The Neighbor.
Read the full article @ Digital Book World.
Dean's in People Magazine's Hottest Bachelors issue!
July 10, 2014
Well, an ad for The City is anyway. Don’t worry, from what I hear he and Gerda are doing just fine. 😉
Dean on the Reading and Writing podcast
July 7, 2014
The 165th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with bestselling writer Dean Koontz. Fourteen of Koontz novels have reached number one on the New York Times best seller list. Koontz’s latest novel THE CITY was published this week.
Listen to the episode @ readingandwritingpodcast.com.
Rutgers faculty and staff share the titles they can’t wait to tackle
July 7, 2014
Ellen Lieberman, associate dean, Douglass Residential College, New Brunswick: When I’m not reading books and articles about living-learning communities and women in science, technology, engineering and math (for research purposes), my “go to” type of book is science fiction, and my favorite fiction writer is Dean Koontz. Koontz captivates me with his integration of “light” and “dark” magic woven into wonderful storytelling. It’s the type of book you can read in a short period of time and escape to another world. His new book, The City, which is being released this summer is described as, “a place where enchantment and malice entwine, courage and honor are found in the most unexpected quarters, and the way forward lies buried deep inside the heart.”
Read the full article @ Rutgers Today.
Commercial for The City
July 6, 2014
Badges of summer: Join our two-month quest to squeeze the most from the season
July 5, 2014
READ A RANDOM COTTAGE NOVEL
Earning this merit badge is easy. If you’re heading to the cottage this summer, don’t pack any books. Leave your e-reader at home, leave the magazines in the mailbox and leave it to fate. One of the peculiar joys of cottage life is to submit to the reading habits of the previous occupants.
You know the kind of books I’m talking about: Wedged between a Monopoly set dating from the 1970s and a neglected cribbage board, these books gather dust 10 months of the year. Hardcovers too heavy to bring home, water-stained thrillers, paperbacks with the back cover torn off, fantasy series that never made it to HBO, historical bodice rippers an aunt forgot in the guest bedroom.
There are certain authors who are native to cottage bookshelves: Dean Koontz; Patricia Highsmith; Stephen King (Needful Things is just about as common as mosquitoes). These aren’t the kind of books you’ll discuss at your next dinner party, but this is one of the purest reading experiences life offers, unencumbered by Goodreads or the New York Times Book Review. These are books that save you on afternoons when it seems the rain will never end, on evenings when there’s nothing good on TV, on mornings when all you want to do is stay in bed just a little longer. Best of all, it’s an opportunity to read outside your comfort zone, take a chance on a genre or author you’ve never tried before.
Read the full article @ National Post.