Koontz, Dean

Agatha Christie s murder mysteries Alphabet series (A is for Alibi) by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz... 

The advance has two major purposes. One is obviously to ensure that the author gets a certain amount of money. Often, an author never gets a dime more than his advance. A second purpose is to ensure that publishers devote some effort to promoting the book so they can at least get back their advance money. A significant advance would seem to guarantee a certain level of commitment to the book. Dean Koontz has noted that publishers push hard with advertising and promotion only on those books on which they were at risk of losing money. 

On a personal note, I was able to publish more than 30 books since 1990 because of drive, not talent. Dean Koontz says that If I ve learned one lesson in life, it is that you can have all the ability in the world and it means absolutely nothing without perseverance. ... 

Ramsland, Katherine, Dean Koontz A Writer s Biography (New York HarperPrism, 1997), 378. 

Horror writers, such as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, and John Saul, commonly appears at a b... 

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