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  • Newsletter - September 2007


    It's So ODD to be on MySpace

     

    The Odd One has found a place on MySpace. Learn all of the latest news about Odd Thomas plus his thoughts on life, friends and bodachs. Odd also shares his favorite music, books and heroes. Join his friends' list and check out all of the Dean Koontz fans on MySpace. Don't miss it! Click here to visit Odd's MySpace!

    Extra! Extra!

    BROTHER ODD arrives in paperback in October and FOREVER ODD has been released in trade paperback.


    Beat the Quizmaster!

    1) In what town does PHANTOMS take place?

    2) How many languages are Dean's books currently published in?

    3) In the 1998 film adaptation of PHANTOMS, who played Sheriff Bryce Hammond?

    4) What did Dean do before he was a writer?

    5) In what year was PHANTOMS originally published?

    6) What does Timothy Flyte nickname the creature that is tormenting our protagonists in PHANTOMS?

    7) What book was Dean writing when the idea for ODD THOMAS came to him?

    8) Dean once said "writing is like making love but it's also like" what?

    See answers below

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    AUTHOR Q & A

     

    Question:

    What has inspired you most to write your wonderful books?

    Answer:

    Number one, there's nothing else I can do. Number two, I need to stay out of trouble with the police, and that means keeping my time filled. Number three, I have a passion for storytelling and a love of the English language. Though you might not know that from the degree of incoherency I will no doubt exhibit in this answer.

    Question:

    Where do you come up with your stories? Are any based on personal experience?

    Answer:

    All writing is to some degree based on personal experience, especially the emotions my characters feel, the thoughts they have about life and the struggles of life. I have not, however, been assaulted by an evil clone, chased by a mutant escapee of a genetic engineering lab, or been locked in my own house by a mad computer system.Click Here for more AUTHOR Q & A.

    You can submit your own questions to:dean@deankoontz.com
    or:
    Dean Koontz
    PO Box 9529
    Newport Beach, California 92658

     

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    PHANTOMS:

    One of Dean's Biggest Mistakes?

    Writing Phantoms was one of the ten biggest mistakes of my life, ranking directly above that incident with the angry porcupine and the clown, about which I intend to say nothing more. Phantoms has been published in thirty-one languages and has been in print continuously for fifteen years, as I write this. Worldwide, it has sold almost six million copies in all editions. It has been well reviewed, and more than a few critics have called it a modern classic of its genre. Readers write to me by the hundreds every year, even this long after first publication, to tell me how much they like Phantoms. I enjoyed writing the book, and when I had to reread it to create a screenplay for the film version, I found it to be just the thrill ride that I had originally hoped to produce. Yet it is this novel, more than any other that earned for me the label of "horror writer," which I never wanted, never embraced, and have ever since sought to shed. Click Here to find out more about PHANTOMS.


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    PHANTOMS Returns to Terrorize Us Again!

     

    CLOSER

     

    They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

     

    AND CLOSER

     

    At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease.

     

    AND CLOSER

     

    But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined.

     

    PHANTOMS has been re-released and is available in stores now.

     

    Click Here to learn more.

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    Did You Beat the Quizmaster?

     

    1) Snowfield, California

    2) 38

    3) Ben Affleck

    4) He worked as an English teacher in a suburban school district outside Harrisburg.

    5) 1983

    6) "The Ancient Enemy"

    7) THE FACE

    8) Having a tooth pulled.

    Dean Koontz is a master of Thrills and Chills. Click Here to see more of Dean's work.

     

     

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