When you publish a book and start working on how to publicize it, one of the things they will tell you is to have a blog. Now I haven’t posted in a while, so recently, I was trying to think of some topics to write about, and while I have something I have been thinking about, I’m not ready to post it just yet. Then, as I was sitting at home on a cold and rainy night recently, (Hey, that sounds like the start of a story!) and browsing through some postings on Goodreads, I came across one that stated: “I love Cold Fire so very much ” Well, this immediately got my attention as Cold Fire is one of my all-time favorites, so I clicked on the topic: “How did you get to know Dean Koontz?” As I read some of the stories there, it got me to thinking about how I was introduced to Dean Koontz, which then led me to a posting of my own:

I was introduced to Dean Koontz by a girl I was dating at the time who was reading Watchers. She gave it to me after she finished it and I loved it! At the time I was mostly into sci-fi and fantasy novels, but had started reading Stephen King. (The Stand and Firestarter are still two of my all-time favorites) After reading Watchers I was hooked. I read everything of Koontz’s I could get my hands on and even became a big collector of all of his old books. My all-time favorites of his are: Watchers, Lightning, Cold Fire, Sole Survivor, and From The Corner of His Eye. I have always wanted to be a writer, and had even written a fantasy novel in the past, but I became such a fan of Koontz that it inspired me to try writing thrillers similar to his, which eventually turned into my novel Shadow Dragon.

And just like that, without realizing what I was doing at the time, I had my next blog post.