Today is July 9. I don’t normally do birthday posts for living writers.

But it’s my blog, and I can do what I want. And I want to acknowledge the birthdays of two of my favoirte writers.

Glen Cook (b. 1944) and Dean Koontz (b. 1945).

Glenn Cook

Glen Cook is the author of the Black Company sereis, the Dread Empire series, The Instrumentalities of the Night series, adn the Garrett, PI series. Along with a number of other novels. If you haven’t read him yet, what are you waiting for?

Dean Koontz needs no introduction. He was been writing for at elast fifty years. I’ve only started reading his work in the last few years, and I regret watiing so long. He’s a writer my writing mentors encourage other writers to study.

So, Mr. Cook and Mr. Koontz, happy birthday!