Newsletter - March 2007
Greetings from Dean Koontz!
March has been an action-packed month for Dean. Recently, Dean – or rather an avatar of Dean – visited the Bantam Dell Book Shop on Second Life to read excerpts from his upcoming novel, THE GOOD GUY (coming May 29), and to answer questions from fans. Click here to relive the experience.
Bantam announced a Shoot The Good Guy Book Trailer Contest with a prize of $5,000 for the winner! For details, click here.
On May 1, Dean's #1 Bestselling novel, THE HUSBAND will be in stores.
"Shoot" THE GOOD GUY, and Win $5,000... or Win a T-Shirt!
You won't want to miss the chance to preview of the first two chapters of THE GOOD GUY and to check out how you can win $5,000 by entering the Shoot The Good Guy Book Trailer contest.
Click here for details.
From the electrifying openings of his novels to their unforgettable conclusions, Dean Koontz draws readers into complex and fascinating worlds of suspense and wonder. His latest novel, THE GOOD GUY, published by Bantam and in hardcover on May 29, weaves the timeless themes for which he is acclaimed into a breathtaking tale of an ordinary man pushed to the limit, in the ultimate battle against an adversary whose malice knows no bounds...
Read two chapters of THE GOOD GUY.
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DARKFALL Is Re-Released! City Gripped by Terror and Blizzards
Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark.
And come to get you in the dark.
— THE BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS
Winter gripped the city. Terror gripped it, too. They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last.
At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. But soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system - and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night.
In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks...
Read more by clicking here.
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THE HUSBAND Is Coming in May! Look for It in Paperback!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR LOVE?
WOULD YOU DIE?
WOULD YOU KILL?
Dean's #1 bestselling book, THE HUSBAND, is coming in paperback May 1. With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself-and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. To read more on THE HUSBAND, Click here.
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Beat the Quizmaster!
DARKFALL Trivia Quiz!
1) In what year was DARKFALL originally released?
2) Under what pen-name was DARKFALL supposed to be released?
3) DARKFALL was the (what number) book to be published by Dean Koontz?
4) What weapon did Penny use to fight off the things?
5) What natural calamity occurs prominently in the book?
6) What color eyes do the things have?
See answers below!
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A Message from Dean on Writing and the Death of a Pen Name
Dear Readers,
When a young and unknown writer routinely completes more than one book per year, publishers urge him to use a pen name--or names--for what they view as excess production. They believe that critics will dismiss the work of a prolific writer without even reading it, assuming it is piffle. Many critics do, indeed, respond this way, even though Henry James--the litterateur's litterateur--produced over a hundred and twenty books in his lifetime, and though writers from Shakespeare to Dickens to Joyce Carol Oates have proved that one can produce quantity with quality.
Publishers also recommend--or often insist--that pen names be used on books that the writer creates outside of the genre in which he first began publishing under his own name. If one begins writing adventure novels about trout fishing, then delivers a romance with not a trout to be found in its chapters, one will be pressured to use a pen name for this suspect, fishless fiction. Because I enjoyed writing in a variety of genres--international intrigue, romance suspense, psychological suspense, tales of terror, science- fiction, humorous suspense--I ultimately published under several pseudonyms before finally forsaking all false identities.
To continue reading click here.
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Did You Beat the Quizmaster?
1) 1984
2) Owen West
3) 47th
4) Whiffle ball bat
5) A blizzard
6) Silver
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