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Behind the scenes
July 20, 2017
I’ve posted various images of my collection on this blog over the years, and if you head on over to the project’s Facebook page you can find photos of pretty much everything in the collection; 2,000+ items.
However, I don’t general talk about the behind-the-scenes items; the archives & the research. Well, here’s some photos of relevant shelves, piles, and boxes in my home office just to give you some idea of what has, and will go, into this multi-decade project.
This obviously is just a small part of the whole, but it’s a peek behind the scenes that pretty much one one’s ever seen outside of immediate friends and family.
If you’ve got a question about any of it, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best to clarify.
Happy 72nd Birthday Dean!
July 9, 2017
Black River: I'll Be Watching Over You
July 2, 2017
Some news & a correction:
According to Charnel House:
“Both states of BLACK RIVER, I’ll Be Watching Over You by Dean Koontz have been shipped. When Dean ends this series of novellas and novelettes Charnel House will issue a slipcase to house the entire series. There are few copies remaining of this title still available for purchase. Order now to own the first book of this series, you can then retain your number for the series.”
Shown right are my numbered edition and a friend’s lettered.
Regarding the lettered edition, my friend isn’t all that happy with it…
“Lettered Black River. . .MASSIVE disappointment. I paid $900 for this, it’s bound in 3/4 leather but otherwise identical to the numbered, no traycase, no slipcase even, no bonus material, nothing. It probably didn’t cost them much more to make and he’s charging $900 per copy.”
I only have a few Charnel House lettered edition personally, mostly due to cost, but I’ve been happy with every one of them. In this case, I might have to agree.
Lastly, the correction:
Black River: I’ll Be Watching Over You is not a sequel to the original “Black River” novella from 1999, it is “Black River” just re-titled. The future novellas in this series will be the sequels.
The City #119
June 23, 2017
Also in today’s mail: The City, copy #119 of 150 from Charnel House.
The Silent Corner – Barnes & Noble autographed edition (take 1)
June 23, 2017
Today I received my autographed copy of The Silent Corner from Barnes & Noble. Like previously autographed B&N copies, this one is a typical trade hardcover edition with a tipped-in autograph page and a different ISBN on the dust jacket; 9781101966198 in this case.
But, when I went to verify that, as with previous editions of this type, the ISBN on the copyright page is the same as the standard trade hardcover(9780345545992) I was in for a bit of a shock…
The first page after the autograph sheet is page 423, not a half title, full title, or copyright page. Continuing to flip through the book I found pages 424-452 then the “About the author” page. Next up: page 23 through the correctly placed pages 423-452 & “About the author.”
What it looks like is that the first signature has been accidentally replaced with the last signature; a total mis-binding of pages. (Please click on the link on the first “signature” in this paragraph if you’re not familiar with this term from the book binding world since what I don’t mean in this case is an autograph.)
In the end, I’ve ordered another copy and here’s hoping that this is a one-off and not something that was carried through a whole print run.
Of course, if anyone else has a copy like this, I’d love to know about it.
Dean talks about Jane Hawk
May 23, 2017
Silent Corner promo video
May 10, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpKdFP5f48
Two more Chinese editions added to my collection
May 8, 2017
The Whispering Room release date & pre-order
April 30, 2017
Amazon.com has The Whispering Room, the second Jane Hawk novel & sequel to The Silent Corner, up for pre-order with a release date of 9 January 2018. Both HC and Kindle editions are available.
Jane Hawk—fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner.
“No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.”
These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.
In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide—and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals—Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But these ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue—and become the nation’s most wanted fugitive—in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.
Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.
Charnel House news
April 26, 2017
The Charnel House news page is reporting the following two items:
THE SILENT CORNER by Dean Koontz is in pre-order for a July release.
BLACK RIVER, I’ll Be Watching Over Yo by Dean Koontz is at the printer and due at the bindery in May for a June release.
Signed copies of The Silent Corner
April 17, 2017
Much later in the game that has been typical for the past several new titles, Barnes & Noble now has signed copies of The Silent Corner up for pre-order. No word yet from Target.
Another move of The Silent Corner release date
March 26, 2017
Today Amazon sent me the following shipping update:
Koontz, Dean “The Silent Corner: A Novel of Suspense”
Estimated arrival date: June 20, 2017
Darkfall (finally) in the UK
March 21, 2017
Look what just arrived… (Turns out I missed this release back on 5 May 2016)
Audible Germany trailer for Frankenstein: City of Night
March 20, 2017
"An Elegant and Exalted Enterprise"
March 20, 2017
The Holiday 2016 issue of The Companion, the electronic newsletter of Canine Companions for Independence has Dean & Gerda on the cover and contains a one-page piece titled “An Elegant and Exalted Enterprise.” I’ve archived a copy here and the original can be found here.
Novelist Dean Koontz and his wife, Gerda, have been loyal and passionate supporters of Canine Companions since the 1990s. Dean has penned six books that showcase the Koontzes’ love for the released and retired Canine Companions dogs they’ve adopted.The author’s proceeds from the books are donated to their dogs’ alma mater. On top of that, the Koontzes have also provided extraordinary financial contributions to Canine Companions and are the Southwest Region’s campus benefactors.
Recently, Dean put pen to paper to reflect on why our mission resonates so deeply with him. The result is something to which we all relate, but only a best-selling author could write.
The Silent Corner on TV; Six-book series
March 17, 2017
Best-selling author Dean Koontz’s forthcoming book The Silent Corner is going to get the TV treatment.
Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have optioned the FBI drama ahead of its June publication by Bantam, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. A network is not yet attached.
The book revolves around FBI agent Jane Hawk, who after she starts to learn why people of talent and accomplishment who are happy and of sound mind are killing themselves for no apparent reason, becomes the most wanted fugitive in America. The powerful cabal she confronts is completely unprepared to stop a woman driven by a rage born of love who is as clever and courageous as its members are cold-blooded.
Koontz plans to write at least five more books featuring Jane Hawk, with Silent Corner being the first out.
Read the whole article @ The Hollywood Reporter.
Ten new MP3-CD audio editions released
March 15, 2017
Ten collections, twenty titles…
Between The Lines with Barry Kibrick: Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life
March 13, 2017
Host Barry Kibrick talks with Best Selling Author Dean Koontz, about his book, A BIg Little Life, the true story of his life with his best friend, his dog.
Originally broadcast on 19 May 2011.
Charnel House editions of "Black River: I'll Be Watching Over You"
March 13, 2017
Click either of the images for the relevant ordering pages.
Perihelion
March 13, 2017
Hey, did you all know that Perilehion relaunched back in November as an online SF magazine? Sadly, it does not include an archive from back in the day.