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What’s New & Updated February 26, 2023

February 26, 2023

Yep, I’m still backlogged when it comes to adding interviews. Here’s a bunch more.

  • Updated gutter code details for the BCE of Darkfall
  • Devoted review in the Spring 2020 issue of Suspense Magazine
  • Letter to Margaret Duarte
  • “Tomes & Tones: Squarepusher Paired with Dean Koontz” to Odd Thomas
  • “No, Not That Critic” by Tracy Devine and related info to Relentless
  • Added to Appendix B
    • The Red Hot Chilli Writers Episode 44 – Dean Koontz, The Other Emily, the biggest selling authors of all time, and a brief history of the Bible
    • Suspense Radio: Interview with Dean Koontz
    • Meet the Thriller Author #93: Dean Koontz
    • Meet the Thriller Author #139: Dean Koontz
    • Meet the Thriller Author #187: Dean Koontz
    • National Review: The Bookmonger Podcast: “Dean Koontz on The Darkest Evening of the Year” & “Dean Koontz on What the Night Knows”
  • Added to Appendix G2
    • Breakfast in the Ruins by Barry N. Malzberg
    • The Decline of the Novel by Joseph Bottum

What’s New & Updated February 19, 2023

February 19, 2023

Fangoria #11

More interviews this week as I’m still digging out of my core list of “hey, get back to this” items. I fished watching all three In Search of Horror films, and I highly recommend them if you love 80s horror movies.

What’s New & Updated February 12, 2023

February 12, 2023

Dean’s been on quite the virtual promotional tour for The House at the End of the World, and I’ve been sitting on a bunch of bookmarked things for a while. Strap in; there is hours worth of content here.

  • The Big Dark Sky large print hardcover
  • Appendix B additions
    • 7 Common Story Structures You Can Use in Your Novel by Jerry Jenkins
    • The Action Catalyst Episode 413: Hilarious Catastrophe, with Dean Koontz (Author, Publishing, Writing, Business)
    • Advocates for Self Governance: Dean Koontz
    • The Companion Chronicles’, Dean Koontz Interview
    • Collecting Dean Koontz by Adrienne Rivera
    • Dean Koontz: ‘I threatened to leave publishers if they wouldn’t stop putting the word horror on my books’
    • Dean Koontz on How to Sell 500 Million Books and Why ChatGPT Will Never Replicate the “Soul” of the Human Author
    • This Is Horror Podcast 481: Dean Koontz on The House at the End of the World and Odd Thomas
  • From the Desk of Dean Koontz: Now Available – The House at the End of the World
  • Additional online ads for The House at the End of the World
  • Horror Drive-In: “The Big Dark Sky, by Dean Koontz,” Horror Drive-In to The Big Dark Sky
  • Raised to Walk: “Devoted by Dean Koontz: Transhumanism, Ethics, & Happiness” to Devoted
  • Appendix H updated

Important Announcement re: Facebook

February 12, 2023

I have been completely locked out of my Facebook account due to the inability to transfer 2FA tokens from an old phone that died to a new one. Sadly, I’m not alone and Facebook does not offer any solution to this problem. (Other than lots of sketchy “hackers” offering to help as long as I had over all my account information. That’s not gonna happen.)

Personally, I’d love to never use Facebook again, but losing access to the Facebook Page for this site is quite a loss. I’m still investigating and am holding out a tiny bit of hope, but who knows if/when I’ll get back in.

In the meantime, I’m still on the dumpster fire that is Twitter (@collectkoontz) so feel free to follow me over there.

What’s New & Updated February 5, 2023

February 5, 2023

Dean’s on his virtual promotional tour for The House at the End of the World, and the interviews are coming in daily, so I’m going to hold off a week and see if I can get all of them into one update. In the meantime, I was finally able to get all the stories in Strange Highways and Other Stories into the site.

What’s New & Updated January 29, 2023

January 29, 2023

The House at the End of the World CD

It’s new release week again, so obviously that was my main focus. There are a bunch of related interviews and reviews in the queue too, so watch for those in the coming weeks.

What’s New & Updated January 22, 2023

January 22, 2023

Whispers TR VCR

Two interviews & a foreign VCD this week. Upcoming: The House at the End of the World.

  • “Dean Koontz on His Latest Novel, His Favorite Villians and What’s Coming Up Next” to Appendix B
  • Turkish VCD of Whispers
  • “Writing Advice: Where You Write Makes a Difference” to Appendix B

What’s New & Updated January 15, 2023

January 15, 2023

UK/AU Large Print Hardcover (1997)

Well, I feel like I’ve started making progress again this week between these updates and other blog posts. Let’s see if I can keep this going week to week.

What’s New & Updated January 8, 2023

January 8, 2023

Welcome back! I can’t say I’m fully back up to speed when it comes to getting things done on the site, but as you can see, it wasn’t a total shutdown the past few weeks. The day job continues to be chaotic but hopefully, things will if not settle down, at least become more regular, allowing me to plan non-day-job tings accordingly.

Time for a short break

December 4, 2022

Turns out that last week’s “flu” was actually COVID. I’m feeling much better but still feeling a bit fatigued much earlier in the day than usual. On top of that, my day job’s schedule, which has been Tuesday-Saturday for the past seven years, has been super-irregular for the past month and will continue to be for the rest of December. Come January I’m hoping I’ll be moved to a regular Monday-Friday schedule but that hasn’t been finalized yet.

As a result of all of this, I’m going to take a bit of a hiatus from the site. That doesn’t mean I won’t be working on the project overall, just that I won’t be posting any update posts until January. If something big happens I’ll let everyone know, but the day-to-day of the site needs a vacation.

See you all in 2024!

What’s New & Updated November 27, 2022

November 27, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. I had planned on having a lot more this week, but I’ve been laid up with a nasty cold since Thursday.

What’s New & Updated November 20, 2022

November 20, 2022

Not that it allows me to update anything on the site, but I’m not the proud owner of copies 137 & 133 (respectively) of the Charnel House editions of The Silent Corner and The Night Window. I wasn’t financially able to purchase these when they came out, so they’re nice additions to my collection. (And I paid significantly less than the list price!) As for actual site updates…

What’s New & Updated November 14, 2022

November 14, 2022

Thanks to John Davis for noticing that the Useless News page was missing the August 2018 issue. Luckily, I wasn’t missing the issue, I’d just somehow skipped entering it. That error has been corrected. Oh, and I just got my hands on an ARC of The House at the End of the World.

What’s New & Updated October 31, 2022

October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, my day job’s schedule has continued to be abnormal and non-standard through this past week (this week, too) so I’ve got nothing new for you. In the meantime enjoy watching The Face of Fear TV movie from 1990.

What’s New & Updated October 23, 2022

October 23, 2022

My work week is a bit different coming up so this one’s a day early. As to the new edition of Strange Highways on audio, the basic entries have been created but they are lacking detail right now. Once those are complete, I’ll need to create and cross-reference all the entries for the included stories.

What’s New & Updated October 17, 2022

October 17, 2022

I’ve got lots of little errands to run today so I’m going to leave you with just one new item this week.

What’s New & Updated October 10, 2022

October 10, 2022

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, it’s quite fun when you find stuff from decades ago that you somehow missed. Alos, a special thanks to Bill Popper this week for providing a photo and details for the latest ARC.

What’s New & Updated October 3, 2022

October 3, 2022

This week is mostly interviews & articles I’ve had bookmarked for a while and haven’t had the time to enter the site. Enjoy.

What’s New & Updated, September 26, 2022

September 26, 2022

It’s Watchers week here at CollectingKoontz.com. Not only had I somehow missed the Blu-ray release of Watchers II back in April, but today Charnel House started taking orders for their lettered and numbered editions of Watchers. Hope you’ve got room on your credit card.

What’s New & Updated, September 19, 2022

September 19, 2022

I’m taking a bye week. Enjoy this interview in the meantime.