John asked Dean Koontz:

Will you ever go back to Moonlight Bay and write another Christopher Snow book? Christopher and Bobby are at the top of my list of favorite characters in all of literature. Those books meant so much to me. The writing was so deep and it really changed the way I look at life. Thank you!

Dean Koontz Thank you. I loved those characters. I was supposed to write the Moonlight Bay trilogy as the first three books with a new publisher. When I delivered SEIZE THE NIGHT, number two, it was not received with enthusiasm. It was considered “too out there” and “too funny,” and the publishing company’s response was so adamant that it was conveyed to me not directly but through my agent in such a dire tone of voice that Darth Vader would have been intimidated. The book was well reviewed and popular with readers, but I was given to understand that I had better write a few other books before forcing the issue with the third in the trilogy, or perhaps find yet another publisher.

As that publishing house is no longer my publisher, and as the first two books are locked up there, it has seemed too difficult to publish and promote the third book elsewhere. However, as I was answering your question, I suddenly thought——Hey, maybe I can write one more Chris Snow not as the third in the trilogy, but as a nice fat standalone that reprises the background of the first two in a fresh way and carries the characters to a conclusion. It’ll be such a complex project that I’ll need a full year for it, but I’ve begun to get ahead of deadlines and might be able to manage it.

I don’t know why this never occurred to me before. I guess I had to get old enough to get smart enough. A friend who has read the three finished books awaiting publication told me I have gotten smarter, but only because, as a younger man, I was so stupid that there was nowhere to go but up. Friend or not, I’m thinking of having him knee-capped.

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