| Dean Koontz November 2009 Author of the Month |
We are extremely honored to have Dean Koontz as
the author of the month. We started this quest about
a year ago, and dreams do come true. Dean has
written over 80 novels and sold over 400 million of
them. When people say this author or that author are
on the short list for being the best in their genre,
Dean Koontz is the list. A master writer in every
sense of the word, Dean's writing style will be studied
for many years to come and his books will live on
forever. Below you will see his latest release and a
excerpt from the exclusive interview we had with him.
To read the entire interview, you will need to pick up
the January 2010 issue.
the author of the month. We started this quest about
a year ago, and dreams do come true. Dean has
written over 80 novels and sold over 400 million of
them. When people say this author or that author are
on the short list for being the best in their genre,
Dean Koontz is the list. A master writer in every
sense of the word, Dean's writing style will be studied
for many years to come and his books will live on
forever. Below you will see his latest release and a
excerpt from the exclusive interview we had with him.
To read the entire interview, you will need to pick up
the January 2010 issue.
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the
wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his
magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into light…and
into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees,
under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady’s isolated
home, waiting to make their approach.
A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to
unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a
government in peril to her door.
At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to
begin a descent into darkness… In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos
theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable… On a Seattle golf
course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder… Along
a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek
toward his destiny…
In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and
funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn
of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and
mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it BREATHLESS.
wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his
magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into light…and
into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees,
under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady’s isolated
home, waiting to make their approach.
A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to
unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a
government in peril to her door.
At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to
begin a descent into darkness… In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos
theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable… On a Seattle golf
course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder… Along
a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek
toward his destiny…
In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and
funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn
of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and
mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it BREATHLESS.
| Here is an excerpt from the exclusive interview we conducted with Dean Koontz |
Suspense Magazine:
You have mentioned at length that prior to writing “Your Heart
Belongs to Me”, you researched transplant surgery. Ryan Perry was
also a surfer; do you surf?
Dean Koontz:
I’ve written two other novels that deal much more deeply with
surfing—“Fear Nothing” and “Seize the Night”. One review that I did get
a kick from was in Surfing Journal, which called “Seize the Night” one of
the best novels featuring surfing, said I had obviously been exposed to
surf culture, and said that I write about surfing “without making the usual
faux pas of non-surfing authors.” I don’t surf. But it is true that I’ve been
exposed to surf culture, because I do a lot of research and because for
years we owned a house on Balboa Peninsula Point, in Newport Beach,
only a couple of blocks from one of the most famous surfing sites in the
world. Year after year, surfers come up to me at book signings and want
to swap stories and some of them, having read “Fear Nothing” and
“Seize the Night”, have even refused to believe I don’t surf and think I’m
playing a mind game with them.
We have much more that we asked Dean, to read the entire
interview, check out the January edition, available December
15th, 2009.
You have mentioned at length that prior to writing “Your Heart
Belongs to Me”, you researched transplant surgery. Ryan Perry was
also a surfer; do you surf?
Dean Koontz:
I’ve written two other novels that deal much more deeply with
surfing—“Fear Nothing” and “Seize the Night”. One review that I did get
a kick from was in Surfing Journal, which called “Seize the Night” one of
the best novels featuring surfing, said I had obviously been exposed to
surf culture, and said that I write about surfing “without making the usual
faux pas of non-surfing authors.” I don’t surf. But it is true that I’ve been
exposed to surf culture, because I do a lot of research and because for
years we owned a house on Balboa Peninsula Point, in Newport Beach,
only a couple of blocks from one of the most famous surfing sites in the
world. Year after year, surfers come up to me at book signings and want
to swap stories and some of them, having read “Fear Nothing” and
“Seize the Night”, have even refused to believe I don’t surf and think I’m
playing a mind game with them.
We have much more that we asked Dean, to read the entire
interview, check out the January edition, available December
15th, 2009.
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