![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took another 18 years and 54 novels, plus four nonfiction books, before he hit hardcover bestseller lists with the suspense novel Strangers. Koontz published his first book, Star Quest, a science fiction novel released as half of an Ace Double paperback, in 1968. He's not going to get dressed up in a three-piece white suit." - Irwyn ApplebumĪpplebaum isn't kidding. Who knew? Who knew that he would become one of the five or six most popular authors in the world? He just kept at it, and kept at it." "He's not a glory seeker. "It was word of mouth that sold him for years, first in paperback, then in hardcover. "Dean Koontz became a bestselling author the old-fashioned way," says Irwyn Applebaum, president and publisher of Bantam Books. We can picture him flashing on that mean house of so long ago, and wondering at the roads he has traveled from there to here. There will be the movie theater, the game arcade, the swimming pools. ![]() Over there will be the bedrooms, the terraces, the gardens. He studies the land, envisioning the home he and Gerda will build. Perhaps 40 years later, the boy, now an author read around the world, walks with his wife on a warmer hillside, 3000 miles away. ![]()
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