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What’s New & Updated March 19, 2023
March 19, 2023
Things got the better of me this week, so there’s just one new essay this time.
- From the Desk of Dean: Grandma Pearl at the Bureau of Excuse Making
Throwback Thursday: The Good Guy ARC
March 16, 2023
What’s New & Updated March 12, 2023
March 12, 2023
This week: New cover art, new (to me) blurb, new edition, and more.
- After Death cover art
- Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor to Appendix D
- The House at the End of the World Large Print Hardcover
- Some details on the demise of Eclipse Comics to the Trapped graphic novel page.
- “Why You Should Binge Read Dean Koontz” to Appendix B
After Death cover art revealed
March 10, 2023
Throwback Thursday: Criminal Justice Through Science Ficiton
March 9, 2023
What’s New & Updated March 5, 2023
March 5, 2023
I did do a bunch of updates this week, but since these beautiful limited editions of Watchers arrived, I decide to just focus on those this week. Everything else I’ll put off announcing them until next week. Enjoy!
Throwback Thursday: Share the Warm Flesh
March 2, 2023
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
Throwback Thursday: The Crimson Witch
February 23, 2023
What’s New & Updated February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023
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.
- Fangoria #11 to The Funhouse (film) & The Funhouse by Owen West
- Added to Appendix B
- Dog Edition #22: Dean Koontz: How Dogs Changed My Life
- “Our fam gets together with Dean Koontz,” Scott Simon of NPR
- BingeBooks Book Club with Dean Koontz: The Big Dark Sky
- Dean Koontz, Bloody Scotland 2022
- SciFiNow, “Dean Koontz on The Big Dark Sky, Incredible Coincidences and Buying Tows for His Dogs”
- Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books: Dean Koontz, Quicksilver and The Big Dark Sky
- Added to Appendix G(2)
- Acne: A Memoir by Laura Chinn
- “The way we read now” by Joseph Bottum
- In Search of Darkness & In Search of Darkness II reference to Watchers (Film)
- In Search of Darkness, In Search of Darkness II, and In Search of Darkness III references to The Funhouse (Film)
- In Search of Darkness III reference to Demon Seed (Film)
- The Horror of Babylon Bonus Episode: It Vs Phantoms to Phantoms
- “The old pornographers” by Alez Nevala-Lee to Writing Popular Fiction
- Alec Nevala-Lee interviews science fiction author Barry N. Malzberg to The Flesh in the Furnace, Writing Popular Fiction, and How to Write Best Selling Ficiton
Throwback Thursday: The Intruder VHS
February 16, 2023
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.
Throwback Thursday: The Bad Place promotional poster
February 9, 2023
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.
- Details and table of contents for Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “The Black Pumpkin” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Bruno” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Chase” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Down in the Darkness” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Hardshell” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Kittens” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Miss Attila the Hun” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “The Night of the Storm” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Ollie’s Hands” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Snatcher” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Strange Highways” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Trapped” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Twilight of the Dawn” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “We Three” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
Throwback Thursday: Intensity Uncorrected Proof
February 2, 2023
What’s New & Updated January 29, 2023
January 29, 2023
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.
- The House at the End of the World Trade Hardcover & audiobook details and the official trailer
- The Big Dark Sky trade paperback cover & details
- Christmas Is Good!: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Holiday updated cover image
Throwback Thursday: Whispers laserdisc
January 26, 2023
What’s New & Updated January 22, 2023
January 22, 2023
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
Throwback Thursday: The Door to December by Richard Paige
January 19, 2023
