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Crime Reads releases the cover and an excerpt from The Other Emily
November 16, 2020
The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Other Emily, by Dean Koontz. We are thrilled to reveal the cover of this gripping new thriller, which will be released in March 2021. It’s been ten years since Emily was presumed to have been killed by a serial killer, and her partner David is still determined to figure out what happened. But then he meets Maddison, a woman who seems exactly like the love he lost.
Read the excerpt @ Crime Reads
The end of limited editions?
November 16, 2020
According to Paul Worosello “Joe at Charnel House told me that he was not doing any of the new Koontz books. I figured it was a thing with his new publisher.”
I can’t say I have any special insight into Dean’s deal with Amazon but I can’t say I’m surprised that there’s a significant amount of exclusivity built into the deal.
Dean Koontz on Thriller Talk
November 13, 2020
12 November 2020
K.J. and Ryan launch the first episode of Thriller Talk with the prolific author Dean Koontz.
What’s New & Updated November 9, 2020
November 9, 2020
The other writing project was submitted to the editor so other than what will most likely be a final post-edit read-through that’s done so I was able to get back to this “little’ project.
There’s just two new items this week but the first one’s a previously unknown find.
- Girl [blank] a [blank] as by unknwon
- Les passagers (French film tie-in paperback)
What’s isn’t New & Updated October 26, 2020
October 26, 2020
I’ve got a big ol’ goose egg for you this week. As I mentioned last time around, I had to focus on a writing project this week.
What’s New & Updated October 19, 2020
October 19, 2020
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- Southern California News Group Newsmaker Series: A Conversation with Dean Koontz to Appendix B and the official recording to this blog post.
Dean’s Newport Beach home sold for $10.3 million
October 14, 2020
The circa-1933 house fetched $10.325 million.
Designed by pioneering “Architect to the Stars” Paul R. Williams and later remodeled, this 3,400-square-foot residence with three bedrooms, five bathrooms and seamless indoor-outdoor living areas makes the most of its Balboa Peninsula Point location.
The two-story traditional-style home sits on an oversized 45-foot lot with a patio, dock and dock pavilion.
Most rooms offer a view of the harbor.
Koontz and his wife, Gerda, bought the house in September 1995, property records show, while the couple’s Newport Coast mega-mansion was under construction. In April, the compound sold to Stearns Lending founder Glenn Stearns for an all-time Orange County record of $50 million. The Koontzes held onto the smaller “beach house” for six years and spent “just 30 nights” there, the author wrote in “A Big Little Life.”
Source: The Orange County Register
Southern California News Group Newsmaker Series: A Conversation with Dean Koontz
October 14, 2020
Recorded live on October 13, 2020.
What’s New & Updated October 12, 2020
October 12, 2020
Yes folks it’s Elsewhere week. Oh, and two reviews from 1974.
- Elsewhere ARC (image & details), Kindle In-motion, trade hardcover & CD audiobook
- From the Desk of Dean: Elsewhere is Now Available
- Interviews to Appendix B
- “At book 78 and counting, Dean Koontz has no drought of ideas” (AP)
- Podcasts to Appendix B
- Author Live Series with Dean Koontz
- Book Launch : Dean Koontz discusses Elsewhere
- Otherppl
- Writer’s Bone
- The Kindle Chronicles
- Luna Monthly #52 to A Werewolf Among Us and “The Sinless Child”
The Kindle Chronicles #636: Dean Koontz
October 12, 2020
Dean Participating in the 2020 Miami Book Fair
October 9, 2020
Here’s what you need to know: The complete fair schedule will be available at miamibookfair.com on Oct. 15. You’ll need to register there or at https://miamibookfaironline.com/. Starting Nov. 1 , registered fairgoers will be able to begin building their personal watchlists (like you do on Netflix). You can also complete a profile based on your interests, and the website will recommend authors to you. You’ll find out which events are live and which you can watch anytime.
And on Nov. 15, the site goes live.
Here are just a few of the confirmed authors who will appear at the fair this year:
Fiction: Lee Child; Kevin Kwan; Joyce Carol Oates; Terry McMillan; Ben Okri; Roddy Doyle; Dean Koontz; Mary Gordon; Nelson George.
Source: Miami Herald
Six more Nameless episodes on the way
October 8, 2020
Check out Dean saying that he’s working on six more Nameless stories starting at about 1:11:00 in the recent Otherppl podcast.
Dean on the Otherppl Podcast
October 8, 2020
Dean Koontz discusses Elsewhere with The Poisoned Pen Bookstore
October 6, 2020
Dean on the Writer’s Bone podcast
October 6, 2020
Dean on Amazon Live
October 5, 2020
Dean was on Amazon Live today. Did you miss it. For now the video is still available on Amazon.com.
What’s New & Updated October 5, 2020
October 5, 2020
In what might be a first, the first US paperback edition of Devoted came out as a trade paperback, not a premium or mass market. Plus, I finally got my hands on an ARC of Elsewhere which is on its way to my shelves. It just so happens that they trade hardcover and CD editions of Elsewhere are in the mail as thy come out tomorrow. Lastly, Dean’s doing some online events this week (see earlier blog posts) to plan on next week’s update being very Elsewhere-centric.
- Devoted trade paperback (formerly “paperback of unknown type”) and more marketing images
- Elsewhere ARC, marketing images, and videos
- Updated entry for A lizard named “Koontz” in Appendix G to include Gothic Blimp Works #3
- Phantoms mention in Richard Laymon’s One Rainy Night
Dean on Amazon Live tomorrow
October 4, 2020
What’s New & Updated September 28, 2020
September 28, 2020
Biggest news is the page for the forthcoming The Other Emily. Else I’m digging into the pile sitting to my left. The rest of this week’s updates are the start of it. Sticking to the pile, more Fanzine letters are up next.
- Fantasy Review #103 cover to Appendix B
- The Other Emily
- “Odds & Ends” (Useless News, Autumn 2020)
- The Overlook Connection #10 to “Trapped”, and Appendix B
- The Overlook Connection #21 to Dragon Tears, “Trapped”, and Untitled Essay in Dark Dreamers
Inked Frankenstein comic pages from Andres Ponce
September 28, 2020
Anyone care to work out exactly which pages from which issue these are? I just honestly don’t have the time.