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"Photo Session" by Dean Koontz
October 25, 2015
My publisher recently sent a highly regarded photographer to take a few new book-jacket and publicity photos of me. No one said it was because in order to make me appear appealing, a photographer of extraordinary talent was needed, with special lighting, and sixteen image consultants. But I knew. I knew.
Read the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
Polish review of Innocence (Niewinność)
October 25, 2015
“Zdałem sobie sprawę, że Gwyneth więcej wie o mieszkańcach tego miasta, niż ja się kiedykolwiek dowiem, i rozumie lepiej ode mnie, a przynajmniej tak samo dobrze, jakie zepsucie i bezlitosne okrucieństwo może się kryć za maskami przywdziewanymi przez niektórych ludzi.”
Koontz eksperymentuje. Człowiek, który napisał tyle powieści, koniec końców, chce czegoś nowego. Zmienia styl, jak my zmieniamy nasze przyzwyczajenia. „Niewinności” daleko do horroru, nie jest to również thriller. Czy to źle? Nie mi oceniać, jednak czytelnicy, którzy pokochali autora za sceny grozy i nieprzespane noce, tym razem przykryją się kołdrą jedynie wtedy, gdy w pokoju zrobi się zimno. Mroczny klimat zastąpiło zepsute miasto. Największymi potworami ponownie okazali się ludzie. A obraz stworzony przez Amerykanina nie jest otoczony aurą strachu, a smutku.
Z reguły w recenzji znajdziecie wiele słów o głównym bohaterze. Jeśli, tak jak w tym wypadku, występuje narracja pierwszoosobowa, to mamy już niemalże gotowy materiał na dokładną charakterystykę. Nie tym razem. Addonis jest… no właśnie. Tu pojawia się zasadniczy problem. Nasz kronikarz ukrywa się pod kapturem, ujawnia się jedynie nocami, jego wygląd sprawił, że budził odradzę nawet własnej matki.
Read the full review @ Interia360.
Register Book Club will host Dean Koontz at its January event
October 25, 2015
The Register Book Club has selected Dean Koontz’s upcoming novel, “Ashley Bell,” as our next community read.
Please join us, and come hear Koontz, one of America’s top-selling authors, discuss the book at our public event in January.
The book is due in stores Dec. 8. We’ll read and discuss it, with regular chats online and on social media. Join the conversation at the Register Book Club’s Facebook Group. Follow along on Twitter with #OCRBookClub.
The novel is set in Orange County, as many Koontz novels are – mostly in Newport Beach, where he lives.
More @ OCRegister.com
13 romantic horror movies for a spine-tingling Halloween season date night
October 17, 2015
Odd Thomas makes blastr’s list.
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1 images w/ Dialogue
October 17, 2015
Comic Book Resources has images from the first issue, this time including dialogue.
Andres Ponce’s Process Art For Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1
October 17, 2015
[Bleeding Cool has] some process art for Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1. The art is by Andres Ponce with colors by Mohan based on a script by Koontz andChuck Dixon.
Preview of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1
October 17, 2015
Nothing really new here but FlickeringMyth.com has some images and info about the first issue of the new Frankenstein comic.
Ashley Bell contest on Goodreads
October 17, 2015
Goodreads is giving away a copies of Ashley Bell. You must enter by November 8th.
"Saint Odd by Dean Koontz – Now in Paperback" commercial
October 17, 2015
Ask Anna trade paperback
October 17, 2015
Another Dedication to Dean
October 7, 2015
I received my Cemetery Dance limited edition of Bentley Little’s The Revelation yesterday and what do I find on the dedication page?
Special thanks to:
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Dean Koontz, an influence who became a friend and ally, for teaching me the ropes and treating me as though I was somebody—when I wasn’t.
These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!
October 7, 2015
For those of you that haven’t yet read this wonderful essay by Dean now have another chance in the 60th Anniversary Edition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, published by Touchstone yesterday.
Slovakian review of The City
October 3, 2015
“Dean Koontz: Mesto” via Pravda.
Two Greek reviews of The City
October 3, 2015
«Η πόλη» του Dean Koontz διαβάζεται απολαυστικά (The Athens Voice)- Η πόλη – Dean Koontz (Culture Now)
Dean's now on Instagram
October 3, 2015
Ask Anna paperback cover
October 2, 2015
Details on Frankenstein: Storm Surge #3
September 27, 2015
From the October 2010 issue of Previews.
Someone @ Primatech reads Dean Koontz
September 27, 2015
From the first double-episode of Heroes Reborn…
"I Have a New Computer" by Dean Koontz
September 26, 2015
Here’s a excerpt from another new essay on DeanKoontz.com:
If you saw CBS Sunday Morning a couple years ago, when Anthony Mason and his crew (all great people; they made it fun), came to Koontzland to do an interview, you will have seen my 20-year-old computer system that so puzzled Anthony, he said, “What is that?!?” I told him I’d just traded in my steam-driven computer. In truth, for a long time, I dreaded changing to a new system and learning a new software, because I thought the learning phase would slow me and inhibit creativity. To a writer, inhibited creativity is more to be feared than great white sharks and mad gunmen, or even mad gunmen who are great white sharks…
"A Crisis of Extraordinary Proportions" by Dean Koontz
September 26, 2015
This essay in the latest issue of Useless News (Summer 2015) has also been posted on DeanKoontz.com.
Maybe it’s a genetic abnormality, maybe it’s a dark knot in my psychology that can never be untied, but whatever the reason, I never much liked chocolate milk. Chocolate, yes. Milk, yes. But the two combined always seemed to me to be a culinary experiment less successful than trout ice cream. Then, a few years ago, Gerda——who doesn’t share my long list of food quirks ——brought home a half-gallon container of Hood’s Calorie Countdown chocolate milk. My life was forever changed.
Hood’s is headquartered 3,000 miles from me, in Massachusetts, where I have never been and where, therefore, I couldn’t even be certain that they had cows or knew about chocolate. Yet here was a sublime concoction, more chocolatey than the bland chocolate milks I had known before, like a liquid version of the chocolatiest of chocolate ice creams, yet only 90 calories a glass. The vicissitudes of life ceased to bother me. I no longer worried about planet-killing asteroids plunging toward Earth or that some demonic TV network would resurrect the old series My Mother the Car…