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International bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of The Bad Weather Friend, After Death, The House at the End of the World, The Big Dark Sky, and seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1: One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street. Hailed by Rolling Stone as "America's most popular suspense novelist," his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website at www.deankoontz.com.
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& Noble.
You left two poems out of your reproduction of The Book of
Counted Sorrows as a kind gesture to the reader so that we don't turn to
butter or explode. How did you decide which poems to leave out?
As you know, all men and some women who read every poem in
this book meet sudden, strange, explosive ends shortly after completing the
tome. A few courageous, treasured, highly esteemed employees here at the Koontz
manor--whose exquisite good taste I trusted and admired, whose taste in fact I
would like to see adopted by our entire society through the use of armed force
if necessary--read all the poems. Then, quickly, before either of their heads
exploded or they convulsively spun themselves into butter, each shouted out the
titles of two poems he thought should be excised to protect the public. I made
my decision based on these people's heroic efforts. Their sacrifices will never
be forgotten: We have erected lavish monuments to them here on the vast Koontz
estate, so lavish as to require building permits from NASA, which was afraid
that the uppermost portions of the spires might interfere with shuttle flights,
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