MTTA 187: Dean Koontz

The legendary author Dean Koontz is back on the podcast! When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. His books are published in 38 languages and he has sold over 500 million copies to date.

His latest novel, THE BIG DARK SKY, was published on July 19, 2022. It features a thrilling and suspenseful story about a group of strangers bound by terrifying synchronicity becomes humankind’s hope of survival in an exhilarating, twist-filled novel.

During the podcast we chat about his latest novel, his legandary career, the state of the publishing industry, the history of mass paperbacks, e-book, Amazon’s Thomas and Mercer (Dean’s current publisher), and a lot more!

Other books by Dean Koontz

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[00:00:00.550] – Alan PetersenYou are listening to Meet the Thriller Author, the podcast where I interview authors of mysteries, thrillers and suspense books. I’m your host, Alan Petersen, and this is episode number 187. I’m honored to welcome back to the podcast the legendary Dean Koontz, whose latest novel, The Big Dark Sky, is being published on Tuesday, July 19. So by the time you’re listening to this podcast, the book will be available. The Big Dark Sky is another twist filled novel by Dean Koontz, which has a group of strangers bounding together and becoming humankind’s only hope of survival. The interview is coming right up, but first, I wanted to let you know about my own thriller, Gringo Gulch, which is available right now for pre order. The book release date will be on July 26, but like I said, you can order it now via pre order, and then Amazon will deliver that to you on the 26th. No muss, no fuss. I’m very excited about this book. It’s a story that’s been bouncing around in my head for more than ten years, so it’s exciting to finally see it coming out in novel form. So you can all go and check it out. And it takes place in my home country of Costa Rica, where a local homicide investigator teams up with a rookie FBI profiler to track down a serial killer targeting Americans in Costa Rica. So I hope you check it out. It’s called Gringo Gulch, and you can go to Thrillingaries.com/26 and learn more about it from there. So I hope you give it a shot. All right, so here is my interview with Dean Koontz.

[00:01:33.770] – Alan PetersenHey, everybody. Alan Petersen here with meet the thriller author. And I’m so excited to have Dean Koontz returning to the podcast. Thank you so much, Dean, for coming back.

[00:01:44.000] – Dean KoontzGood to be there. Let’s see if I make any sense.

[00:01:46.290] – Alan PetersenAt all this good stuff when you’re on the podcast, so I really do appreciate it. I really enjoyed the big dark sky. That’s your new book that’s coming out next week, july 19. Another genre bender. I just love how you do that. So can you tell us a little bit about it and how that came about and how you started writing The Big Dark Sky?

[00:02:06.190] – Dean KoontzWell, since as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with synchronicity.