(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 15)

Koontz notes in an Amazon.com interview that the idea for Your Heart Belongs to Me came during a phone conversaton with a friend.  “Story ideas have come to me from lines in songs, froma scrap of overheard conversation, from just about everywhere.  And sometimes a story pops into my head, and I have no idea what the source of it was.  Thank God this keeps happening; otherwise I might have to learn an honest trade like plumbing.”  Your Heart reports Bantam, had an 800,000-copy first printing. (See signed Dean Koontz titles at www.vjbooks.com )