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Throwback Thursday: The Intruder VHS

February 16, 2023

1985

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

1990

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.

Throwback Thursday: Intensity Uncorrected Proof

February 2, 2023

1995

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.

Throwback Thursday: Whispers laserdisc

January 26, 2023

1990

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

Throwback Thursday: The Door to December by Richard Paige

January 19, 2023

1985

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.

Dean on About the Authors TV

January 15, 2023

In other forthcoming news, it looks like Dean will be interviewed on About the Authors TV sometime soon.

Midnight Pals 3

January 15, 2023

Just stumbled over this. Found the now-closed Indigogo campaign and hoping there will be another way to purchase a copy when it comes out.

Throwback Thursday: 77 Shadow Street keychain

January 12, 2023

2011

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.

Throwback Thursday: Frankenstein Prodigal Son proof

January 5, 2023

Frankenstein Prodigal Son proof
2004

Koontz, family of 5…

December 13, 2022

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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!

Throwback Thursday: Firsts

December 1, 2022

October 1983

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.