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December 16, 2019
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How Dean Koontz Proved Anyone Can Be a Bestseller
December 16, 2019
How did Dean Koontz sell 450 millions books? Hard work? Luck? Innate skill? Today we’ll take a look at his long road to becoming one of the world’s best selling authors.
Dean Koontz’s Terror Tales
December 16, 2019
Whats New & Updated December 16, 2019
December 16, 2019
A whole bunch of randomness this week. Enjoy.
- Dean’s latest statement on a possible third Chris Snow book on the Seize the Night page.
- 1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson to Ephemera
- Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow to Ephemera
- Additional image and citation for Piers Anthony’s statements in Dream Makers on the “Regarding Certain Fanzines and Piers Anthony” blog post
- Jeffrey Jones: The Definitive Reference to Dark of the Woods
Dean’s latest statement on a third Chris Snow book
December 16, 2019
Dean’s Junior Year High School Yearbooks
December 13, 2019
Bedford (PA) High School, The Echo 1962
Whats New & Updated December 9, 2019
December 9, 2019
Looks like this was the week for updating appendices. It wasn’t planned, just how things worked out.
- “According to Dean” for Children’s Hospital in Appendix B
- The Echo 1959-1963, Bedford (PA) High School to Appendix A
- Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature by Bran Stableford to Appendix B
Did Dean get the moon wrong in Velocity?
December 9, 2019
Jeff Cann has some criticism of how Dean described moon phases in Velocity. (Who am I to argue?)
This isn’t just a picture-book problem. As my kids grew, we moved into family story-time with chapter books. And moon mistakes remained a common occurrence. So frequent in fact, that whenever the moon was mentioned in a story, my kids fully expect me to stop reading to endorse or correct the description. It’s usually a correction.
I just read Dean Koontz’s Velocity. I don’t know that much about Koontz, I’m just starting to read his books. Based on the few Koontz books that I’ve read, I gather that many of the stories, like Velocity, take place primarily at night. References to the moon seem common.
And there it was. Mid-way through the book, Koontz steps into a great big, glaring, moon-phase error. Repeatedly. During a long night, Koontz uses the progress of the moon to chronicle passing time. The problem is that beginning at 1:00 a.m., he talks about the “thinnest silver shaving of a new moon.” This “fragile crescent” is high in the sky, and it’s pretty much up there all night. He makes two more references to this moon across the course of the chapter, the night.
Read the full article @ The Other Stuff
Dean’s High School Yearbooks
December 8, 2019
Once you know what to look for, they weren’t actually all that hard to find online. (Now, why hadn’t I thought to look before is a question I can’t answer.) I’ve also put my hands on an original physical copy of the 1962 yearbook from Bedford (PA) High School, which should be in my hands in a week or so. Of course, a photo will be posted. I’ll also be adding all of these to Appendix A shortly.
And the winner is…
December 8, 2019
Mike Dixon of North Carolina!
Mike, your book is all boxed up and will ship out in Monday’s mail.
Thanks to everyone who entered, especially those of you that left comments on the site.
Whats New & Updated December 2, 2019
December 2, 2019
I’ve finished reading Devoted and I’ve got to say I enjoyed it. I’ve also figured out that I much prefer Dean’s novels where the POV changes from character to character with each new chapter as opposed to those that are mostly one POV. Devoted is one of the former so that helped in my opinion.
As for updates, this week is mostly (again) focused on Nameless and Devoted along with images of the Charnel House editions of The Night Window.
- Corrected release date for Devoted
- Nameless stories “renamed” with season and episode numbers based on what Dean said in his Just One More Chapter Podcast interview
- Nameless online, print, and video promotional content added
- The Night Window limited edition photos and updated details
P.S. The winner of the Devoted ARC has been emailed. Once I receive their confirmation I’ll follow-up in a separate post.
Some references from Devoted
December 2, 2019
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Elliot and Haunted House Pinball
Just One More Chapter Podcast Chapter 19 | Dean Koontz: The Legend
November 28, 2019
Dean Koontz dominates 6 of the top-10 Kindle e-book sales for the holiday by Joshua Fruhlinger
November 27, 2019
Chances are good that many people will be reading on Kindles and smartphones in order to conserve luggage space (and to avoid awkward conversations about book covers), and chances are just as good that many people have already loaded up their devices for the trip. So we took a look at Amazon’s ($NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Store sales ranks for the past couple weeks as we head into Thanksgiving.
And what we found is total Dean Koontz dominance. That’s partially because Koontz is a best-selling author who has sold more than 450 million books, has written more than 100 books, and has had 14 of them hit #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
But this time around he doesn’t need book stores or even the New York Times. That’s because he just released a series of six books (yes, six), and all of them have immediately jumped to the Amazon Kindle top-10 list.
The series is called Nameless. Five of the six books took the top-5 spots in the Kindle Store, and the sixth one took spot 8.
Read the full article @ Thinkum Alternative Data
The Dodge Demon & the Shelby Super Snake
November 26, 2019
Both are featured in the forthcoming Devoted…
What’s New & Updated November 25, 2019
November 25, 2019
This week I filled in a hole in my collection with a first edition paperback of Strangers and then got my hands on two ARCs of Devoted. (I’m giving one away.) Let’s say this was a great week.
- Devoted ARC, details for other editions based on the ARC, and marketing images
- Strangers (DRK) mass market paperback, image added and details corrected.
- Supernatural s14e05: Proverbs 17:3 to Ephemera
Enter to win a free ARC of Devoted
November 25, 2019
I’ve found myself with a spare copy of the Devoted Advance Reader’s Copy and instead of selling it, I’ve decided to give it away. I’ve set up a Rafflecopter raffle for this so please follow the directions below to enter. The raffle starts today and runs through midnight Sunday. I’ll draw a random winner on Monday, December 2nd and contact the winner.
Please Note: This copy DOES NOT include the slipcase that has been shown in some photos. The image on this post is of the copy I am giving away.
a Rafflecopter giveawayCongratulations to this week’s Amazon Charts authors…
November 25, 2019
Books Needed as of 11/24/2019
November 24, 2019
With my recent acquisition of a first printing paperback of Strangers I mentioned on Facebook that this was one of a small handful of paperback firsts I was missing. I was then asked for what else I was missing. So, here’s the current list of known items missing from my collection. If you believe you have one of these that you’re willing to part with, drop me a line and I’ll be happy to discuss.
- Again, Dangerous Visions (UK HC 1st)
- Be Mine by Rick Mofina (2004 PBK blurb )
- Breathless (LP HC NOT BCE)
- By the Light of the Moon (LP HC [NOT BCE])
- Chase (UK/AUS LP HC & TBPK)
- Chase (UK PBK Headline 1st)
- Christmas is Good (HC)
- Children of Infinity (HC [Have BCE])
- Children of the Storm (Dwyer / Magnum)
- Complete Masters of Darkness (LTD)
- Continuum 3 (UK HC 1st)
- Continuum 4 (UK HC 1st)
- The Dark of the Summer (Dwyer / Magnum)
- Darkness Comes (Star UK PBK)
- Demon Child (Dwyer / Magnum)
- Face (LP HC non-BCE)
- Frankenstein: City of Night (Cassette)
- Frankenstein: Dead and Alive (2009 CD 0-7393-1717-2)
- From the Corner of His Eye (UK TPBK upgrade 0-7472-7074-0)
- Funhouse (VHS w/ red square)
- Good Guy (LP 9780739327258) [NOT EXLIB UPGRADE]
- House of Thunder by Leigh Nichols (UK HC)
- Key to Midnight by Leigh Nichols (UK HC)
- Key to Midnight (Dark Harvest Trade HC)
- Key to Midnight (LP, not exlib)
- Legacy of Terror by Deanna Dwyer (Magnum)
- The Mask (PBK 1st)
- Midnight (LP HC)
- Night Chills UK (HC 1st)
- Nightrunners (Lansdale Lettered)
- Powers: Secret Histories 3 vol set (1 of 26)
- Prison of Ice (UK HC)
- Richard Matheson Companion (TRADE HC)
- Richard Matheson Companion (LETTERED)
- Servants of Twilight (CD)
- Shadowfires (LP HC [upgrade])
- Shadowfires (LP TPBK)
- Sole Survivor (HC unsigned 1st upgrade)
- Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva (LETTERED)
- Twilight Eyes (DRK BCE)
- Wall of Masks (UK HC) if it exists
- Watchers (UK LP 0-75050-296-7)
- Watchers (LP TPBK 1-56054-958-0)
Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash
Devoted ARCs are hitting the streets
November 23, 2019