All I can say is, it works for me. I never run into that. And I think it all has to do with this way of working. How have you successfully navigated all the big changes in the publishing business?
One of those was to let the paperback business basically die. A lot of publishers never quite grasped the rise of ebooks. Last year, my agents made the argument that I would probably sell more books with Amazon than with anybody else. And one of the key things was its marketing proposal.
We looked at eight publishers and some of them came with a one-page plan. Others came with eight or 10 pages.
The Amazon plan was around 30, and impressive and thoughtful. So we did a contract for five books. How do you keep up that constant learning? I never got caught. When I was writing science fiction and fantasy, I had to have some basic scientific knowledge, but I could also just make most of it up.
So I started doing research, and to my great surprise, I found that learning about something new and being able to make it part of the story, to impart it in an entertaining way, was something I greatly enjoyed. I got interested in some pretty complicated things, like quantum mechanics, and I found that the more I taught myself, the more story ideas would come to me.
Is that true? Or I may go and sit with them. But I always read and vet the research myself. I had one early agent I could have done without. I was already number one on the paperback best-seller list, and the terms I was getting in contracts struck me as very primitive. She kept telling me that things I was asking for could never be gotten. But I knew a writer lower on the best-seller list who was getting those very things.
I allowed my feelings to smother my business instinct. For years, my behavior was that of the adult child of an alcoholic. I always thought, If I rock this boat at all, everything will come crashing down. It was a kind of disbelief that it could be working as well as it was.
There has to be growth and hope. But then the business began changing, and I needed some guidance, and I finally made the best connection I could have hoped for at Inkwell Management. So you can just keep trying, and it will work. It defines me. I love doing it. I do have a spiritual side, and I think that talent is a grace, an unearned gift. Dean Koontz's first bestselling novel was Demon Seed , a horror and science fiction novel that was first published in Dean Later rewrote the book, which was released in its new form in Both books have the same basic plot but are written from different points of view.
The book was also adapted for film and released in Dean Koontz has had more than 75 pieces of short fiction published since when his story titled This Fence was published in Shippensburg University's magazine The Reflector. Dean Koontz has had non-fiction books published in addition to his immense body of fiction, including How to Write Best Selling Fiction , and Writing Popular Fiction Dean Koontz has had more than books published in his career to date. He studied in Shippensburg State College and graduated from there.
His initial work comprised of novels from various genres including romance and thriller under a large number of pseudonyms. Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly Fiction Competition when he was a senior in college. He has an estimated number of over million copies sold and his work has been published in more than 38 languages all over the world.
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