Dean Koontz, QUICKSILVER and THE BIG DARK SKY
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz to talk about his latest two novels, Quicksilver and The Big Dark Sky. The two discuss why Dean decided to leave his publisher (as well as why he doesn't think the publishing industry should continue to vilify Amazon) and what many imprints misunderstand about their readers. Dean also shares why he likes to challenge himself more at this stage of his career than he did before, his deep fascination with coincidences, and which projects he is working on next.
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Amazon (Quicksilver): https://amzn.to/3OuFwvL
Amazon (Big Dark Sky): https://amzn.to/3OeHwb9
Bookshop (Quicksilver): https://bit.ly/3aQvo2A
Bookshop (Big Dark Sky): https://bit.ly/3IPKceb
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.1 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Dean Coons is the author of Quicksilver and The Big Dark Sky, a novel. |
| 1:03.5 | International best-selling author Dean Coons was only a senior in college |
| 1:07.0 | when he won an Atlantic monthly fiction competition, and he has never stopped writing |
| 1:10.8 | since. He is the author of Quicksilver elsewhere, the other Emily, devoted, and 79 New York Times |
| 1:18.4 | bestsellers, 14 of which were number one, including one door away from heaven, from the corner |
| 1:24.2 | of his eye, midnight cold fire, the bad place, hideaway, dragon tears, intensity, |
| 1:29.2 | sole survivor, the husband, odd hours, relentless, and more. I wonder if he could name all of these |
| 1:34.4 | books. I should have asked him that. He's been hailed by Rolling Stone as America's most |
| 1:38.0 | popular suspense novelist, and his books have been published in 38 languages, I don't think |
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