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Ticktock premium paperback on the way
March 3, 2012
According to Amazon Bantam will be releasing a premium paperback edition of Ticktock on 31 July 2012. No cover image is yet available.
Beauty & The Beard by Dean Koontz
February 26, 2012
How’s this for an ultra-obscure Dean Koontz reference? Check out the following screenshot from the video What if “Star Wars: Episode I” was Good by Belated Media.
Watch the whole video for yourself to get the context.
Intensity Premium Paperback
February 26, 2012
The premium paperback edition of Intensity was released back on January 31st and I’d somehow missed it until earlier this week.
Dean Koontz to Speak at Laguna Playhouse
February 17, 2012
via broadwayworld.com:
New York Times best seller and internationally acclaimed author Dean Koontz will provide an insiders view of the literary world and speak about his experience, recent works, and upcoming projects during a “A Special Evening with Dean Koontz” at The Laguna Playhouse on April 2, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Barbara Barrett Demarco, host of KUCI’s Writers on Writing and Book Salon will introduce and moderate the evening.
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Tickets to the event are $50.00 per person and may be purchased by calling The Laguna Playhouse Box Office at (949) 497-2787 Ext. 1 and online.
House of Thunder trade re-release
February 17, 2012
Looks like The House of Thunder will be getting the trade-paperback treatment with a release date of 4 September 2012. (No cover art yet of course.)
I wonder if Engadget even knows this is a Dean Koontz reference…
January 26, 2012
Cortexa’s ZE Home Controller: recreate Demon Seed for a fraction of the cost
The Bad Place trade paperback
January 26, 2012
Somehow I’d missed that back on January 3rd, Berkley released it’s latest trade paperback reprint, this time of The Bad Place which includes the 2004 Afterword by Dean.
Edward Lee writes like Dean Koontz?
January 16, 2012
Here’s another one for the ephemera appendix…
I’m a Dean Koontz fan obviously. I’m also a big fan of Edward Lee. Would I say these two authors are anything like each other? Most definitely not. Dean leans toward the subtle, while Ed is anything but subtle. So, much to my surprise I find the following statement on the back of the Necro Publications release of Edward Lee’s Ghouls:
“A novel of unrelenting horror in the tradition of Dean Koontz.”
Granted this book was originally published by Pinnacle in 1988 so maybe this text is being reprinted from a much less extreme time in Ed Lee’s life but I must admit this comparison, in my experience, is a bit of a stretch. When I get to reading it, I’ll see if I can post something that might explain it all.
77 Shadow Street is No. 1
January 14, 2012
According to The New York Times, 77 Shadow Street made the #1 spot on the bestseller list this week and is the 14th Koontz title to do so. If you’re interested here’s the chart they present showing the details.
77 Shadow Street UK HC for half price
January 14, 2012
According to this page @ SFX Magazine, the latest issue has a coupon for half off the UK hard cover edition of 77 Shadow Street at your local WH Smith from 19 January (release date) through 7 February. Too bad that us US folks can’t use this coupon online.
How did they get the Pendleton online?
January 10, 2012
If you’re interested in just how the interactive www.77ShadowStreet.com was created, check out this article titled “The Other House’s 360-Degree Visual Effects Elicit Screams at 77 Shadow Street Interactive Website” from digitalmedianet.com.
Here’s a sample:
To achieve the size, scope and luxury described in the book, The Other House filmed inside 27 different interiors across seven locations in the greater Los Angeles area using a state-of-the-art 360o degree video camera. The camera, with its unique spherical design and 11 lenses, captures video simultaneously in all directions at once. When viewed in the proper web player online, the video format allows users to manually “look” in any direction with their mouse or touch pad during playback.
77 Shadow Street excerpt
January 10, 2012
Random House’s Suvudu has posted the first 25 pages of 77 Shadow Street online via Scribd.com which you can also read right here…
77 SHADOW STREET by Dean Koontz, Excerpt
All eight US editions of 77 Shadow Street
January 5, 2012
Click for Flickr version with descriptive notes.
Deeply Odd
January 4, 2012
Did you catch this bit in the latest issue of Useless News?
Dean is currently writing ODD APOCALYPSE, the fifth Odd Thomas novel, which will be published in July 2012. As soon as he has finished it, he will write the sixth in the series, DEEPLY ODD. Then he will most likely write a non-Odd novel before returning to the seventh and final book in the series.
77 Shadow Street used as a piracy example
January 3, 2012
The Daily Mail has published an article titled “eBook pirates cash in on Kindle sales boom as thousands turn to rogue sites for cheap downloads” in which it uses 77 Shadow Street as an example of a recently published book that’s been pirated online. I’ll leave my comments on the article itself out of this blog. If you’re interested in my thoughts on the topic, check out my Travelin’ Librarian blog.
77 Shadow Street audio preview
January 3, 2012
Turns out there’s a QR code on the back of the 77 Shadow Street audiobook box. (Shown right.) That leads you here, which leads you here, which includes the YouTube video below which contains the first five-ish minutes of disc one.
77 Shadow Street copyright error?
January 1, 2012
I received my copy of the large print edition of 77 Shadow Street the other day and just noticed that it has the following copyright statement:
Copyright © 2010 by Dean Koontz
As you can probably guess all the other editions list a 2011 copyright date. I’m assuming this is an error but it’s things like this that the Collector’s Guide is designed to point out.
The Girl on the Glider by Brian Keene
January 1, 2012
Just finally got around to reading Brian Keene’s The Girl on the Glider and it turns out that it had earned an entry in the ephemera section of the Collector’s Guide for the following paragraph on pages 78-79:
I’d also become distinctly aware that a number of people who I’d thought were my friends were my friends only because of who I am and not because of who I am. There is a distinction there, and I bet Stephen King, Dean Koontz, or Dick Laymon would have commiserated . But I wasn’t going to ask King and Koontz for advice on shit like that, simply because I know how overwhelming it is when people do it to me. And Dick wasn’t around to ask. I considered trying to contact him via Ouija board or a medium. Ask him for advice on how to deal with all of the users and abusers and hangers-on in my life, and “Hey, Dick, while we’re at it, what can you tell me about the afterlife? Because I’ve got to tell you, my old mentor—I’m fucking scared of dying.”
There were only 537 copies of this title published by Cemetery Dance in 2010 and it’s long sold out, but it looks like Amazon.com has a copy or two available right now.
77 Shadows Street released
December 28, 2011
77 Shadow Street was released yesterday and right now Amazon.com has it for 43% off list just in case you’ve not bought your copy already. In the mean time, here’s a bunch of relevant links that were included in the announcement from the official Dean Koontz mailing list yesterday.
- Learn more about 77 Shadow Street
- Read an excerpt from 77 Shadow Street
- Watch the video trailer for 77 Shadow Street
- Decorate your computers and smart phones with 77 Shadow Street downloadables
- Visit the Pendleton in the 77 Shadow Street Immersive Experience
If you’ve read it let me know what you thought of it in the comments.
The Bad Place on CD on the way, or is already here…
December 23, 2011
According to Amazon.com The Bad Place will be available on both CD and MP3CD come January 3, 2012. But, it also says they’re available for purchase now. But, there’s no cover art shown yet. Go figure.