Master of Suspense Dean Koontz

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Master of suspense Dean Koontz recalls the literary agent who said he'd never be a bestselling author and how he defied expectations with fourteen #1 New York Times Bestsellers. He discusses his new collection of six short suspense stories for Amazon, why creating an antihero with no memory and no identity appealed to him, and those stories have to say about the blessing and the curse of technology in our lives. Dean reveals the meticulous research that goes into his writing, how much of himself he puts into his books, and why his love of dogs always seems to make it into his work. Nameless, collection of short stories by Dean Koontz is available for free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited members. Keep up with Dean at www.deankoontz.com and on twitter at @deankoontz. Today's episode was sponsored by Kronos HR Solutions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:44.0	Hi, I'm Ben Mathis. Welcome to Kickass News. When suspense author Dean Coons first began
1:50.5	writing professionally, his literary agent told him he'd never be a best-selling author.
1:56.2	Then when his novel hit number one on the New York Times best-seller list, his agent told him he'd
2:01.6	never again have a number one best-seller. Not one to be underestimated, Dean Coons has now had
2:07.9	14 number one best-sellers, so he was a little skeptical when many in the traditional publishing
2:13.8	community tried to discourage him from signing a five-book deal with online retail giant Amazon.
2:20.7	But as he explains today, he's grown surprisingly more risk-tolerant in his recent years and he
2:26.6	believes that Amazon's innovative way of marketing and promoting books is the wave of the future
2:31.7	in publishing. He discusses his first offering through Amazon, a collection of six short stories
2:37.6	titled Nameless, why creating an anti-hero with no memory and no identity appealed to him,
2:44.0	and what Nameless has to say about the blessing and the curse of technology in our lives.
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