Michael Sauers
Homefront Veterans: Skiing With Wounded Warriors
March 15, 2014
It’s a passing mention, but I’m a completist…
Homefront Veterans: Skiing With Wounded Warriors
…Earlier that morning, resort employees “saluted” the veterans with their ski poles held aloft, forming a 30-meter long inverted “V” archway—reminiscent of crossed Marine swords—for them and their service dogs. Author Dean Koontz and the family of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz generously fund a program called “Canine Companions for Independence” (www.cci.org). It provides free-of-charge specially trained dogs. An ever-serene black lab named Augie, for example, demonstrated his skills in picking up a dropped iPhone for his wheelchair-bound companion, Lance.
Bride of Odd Thomas Film News
March 15, 2014
The media blitz seems to be slowing down as there’s only three this week.
- Odd Thomas Starring Anton Yelchin Arrives on Blu-ray & DVD March 25th – Gotham News
- Can Hollywood Treat Dean Koontz Right with ‘Odd Thomas’? – KFGO
- Laurel Harris Gives Us a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Odd Thomas – Reelz
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show tweets Dean
March 15, 2014
Author Dean Koontz about sums it up. RT if you agree. pic.twitter.com/gcFn0UtEXm
— Westminster Dog Show (@WKCDOGS) March 11, 2014
No Lady Gaga does not sing about Dean Koontz
March 15, 2014
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get a screenshot of the article “SXSW Live Shot: Lady Gaga” before it was updated but the official correction does say:
This review originally referred to the man name-checked in “Applause” as Dean Koontz. It has since been corrected to Jeff Koons.
As to whether you think Lady Gaga read Dean Koontz I’ll leave that up to others.
Talkin' Pets
March 15, 2014
Via the article Talkin’ Pets Turns 24 On April 5th, I found out that Dean once appeared on the show. Off to the Google machine I went and found that the show is posted as a podcast and that Dean was the guest for episode 14 broadcast on 1 September 2009 in promotion of A Big Little Life.
You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or just take a listen to that particular episode below. For more about the show check out TalkinPets.com.
On a related note, this article, says that David Tabatsky, editor of Beautiful Old Dogs, to which Dean contrbuted, appeared on the show on 9 November 2013 but I can’t find that recording.
Manuscript update
March 9, 2014
So, some of you (ok, probably all of you) are wondering what’s up with the book this blog is representing. Well, I do have an update.
As a result of the Google Hangout I did with Dean a few weeks ago he sent me a nice note saying that “I am working on my contribution to the bibliography soon.” He also requested that I send him the latest copy of the manuscript. I just sent the manuscript to Cemetery Dance and they’ll be printing all 709 pages of it and send it to Dean this week.
As soon as we get Dean’s Foreword and his answers to some questions we will be locking the manuscript and starting the editing and publishing process.
Thanks for your continued support and patience.
Ask Dean: "What role have books played in your life?"
March 8, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af9vTCU0bxc
Strange Highways on CD & MP3-CD
March 8, 2014
Both the CD and MP3-CD editions are being released on March 11th and each have a list price of $14.99. The description (below) implies that the content is just the novella “Strange Highways” and not the complete Strange Highways collection with many additional short stories. I’ll confirm this when I receive my copy on Tuesday.
Joey Shannon, an alcoholic whose life has been going nowhere for 20 years, returns to his hometown for the funeral of his father. As he leaves town, he gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night in 1975 when his life began its downward spiral: to both literally and figuratively take the road that he didn’t originally take. On this road he is supremely tested by conflict with his successful and charismatic older brother P.J., by conflict between his cynicism and his lost faith, and by conflict between the ultimate good and evil.
Bride of Odd Thomas Film Reviews & News
March 8, 2014
Image Entertainment Invites Odd Thomas into Your Home – Dread Central- Odd Thomas – Screen Daily
- Odd Thomas Blu-ray – Blu-ray.com
- Action/Adventure ODD THOMAS Coming to Blu-ray/DVD, 3/25 – BroadwayWorld.com
- ‘Odd Thomas’ Should Have Been a TV Pilot – Bloody Disgusting
- Review: ‘Odd Thomas’ Starring Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe And Addison Timlin – IndieWire
- Odd Thomas Review – Den of Geek
- ‘Odd Thomas’ Movie Review – About.com
Needed: Information on these two items
March 7, 2014
I have these two items in my collection. Each measures about 8.5″ x 5.5″, are printed are very nice textured paper and signed in black ink. I have no idea as to what purpose they served or their source. If you know anything about these please leave a comment.
Two recent additions to my collection
March 6, 2014
Even More Odd Thomas Film Reviews
March 1, 2014
Now that the film’s finally getting an official UR release there’s bound to be a lot of them…
- ‘Odd Thomas’ is oddly appealing – Kansas City Star
- I See Wacky, Weird Dead People: ‘Odd Thomas’ – Pop Matters
- Odd Thomas is the type of feel-good horror movie they made in the 80s – io9
- ‘Odd Thomas’ is oddly appealing – Charlotte Observer
- “Odd Thomas” another subpar Dean Koontz adaptation – The Denver Post
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‘Odd Thomas’ gets the hero right, but not the tone – LA Times
- Fighting crime in an ‘Odd’ manner – Houston Chronicle
- ‘Odd Thomas’ review: Case closed – Chicago Tribune
- Eggs Over Easy, With a Side of Weird – New York Times
- Movie reviews: ‘Odd Thomas,’ ‘The Lunchbox,’ ‘Two Lives’ – NY Daily News
- ‘Odd Thomas’ is dead on arrival – San Francisco Examiner
- The director of The Mummy brings Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas to the screen – The A.V. Club
- Can Hollywood Treat Dean Koontz Right with ‘Odd Thomas’? – Hollywood.com
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‘Odd Thomas’ Is Comic Book Twaddle That Defies Analysis – New York Observer
- Check Your Adaptation Anticipation at the Door – Film School Rejects
- Odd One Out – Fort Worth Weekly
Dean Koontz Thriller Novella Collection
March 1, 2014
Amazon has posted the artwork for the Dean Koontz Thriller Novella Collection audiobook and now has it being released on March 5th, 2014.
More Odd Thomas Film Reviews & a Clip
February 25, 2014
Another link dump…
- Odd Thomas: Film Review – The Hollywood Reporter
- Paranormal thriller Odd Thomas – TBN Weekly
- Odd Thomas Review – We Got This Covered
- Anton Yelchin Dodges Terrifying Demons in This Exclusive “Odd Thomas” Clip – Complex
Authors@Google: Dean Koontz
February 25, 2014
Dean Koontz visited Google LA to talk about his new novel “Innocence.” This talk took place on January 23, 2014. (Published on Feb 25, 2014)
Dean Koontz Praises The War on Humans
February 24, 2014
Link dump for this one…
- Dean Koontz Praises The War on Humans
- Dean Koontz on Wesley J. Smith’s The War on Humans
- The War on Humans by Wesley J. Smith
Dean Koontz Thriller Novella Collection
February 16, 2014
Looks like a 3-in-1 CD set is coming out titled the “Dean Koontz Thriller Novella Collection” containing Darkness Under the Sun, Demon Seed, The Moonlit Mind from Brilliance on March 25. An interesting choice of a line-up I must say. Amazon currently has it available for pre-order for $11.02. No cover are yet though.
Horror in Vancouver: Watching Corey Haim make a dog of a movie in Lynn Canyon
February 16, 2014
For those of you that don’t have a copy of Fangoria #79, the author of the article on the filming of Watchers has just posted it online.
How many times can a genetically-altered life form leap off a cabin porch and menace two screaming females? Plenty, according to Jon Hess, director of Watchers, a film based on Dean R. Koontz’s best-selling 1987 novel.
On a soggy June night in the dense woods of Lynn Canyon in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Hess has had martial arts expert Philip Wong, dressed in a creature outfit designed by FX man David Miller, attempt the task more than 10 times. It’s the penultimate scene in the movie, wherein Barbara Williams and Lala Sloatman (Frank Zappa’s niece, by the way) try to escape the hybrid monster by making a mad dash for a pickup truck. But the monster, called the Outsider, beats them to it. Let’s hear it for genetically-altered life forms!
“It takes time,” explains the soft-spoken Hess, after they’ve finally gotten the trajectory of the beast just right. “We took a long time creating the monster, and during scheduling we didn’t have that much time to do any tests on film, so a great deal of that stuff is going slowly. But the second unit has picked up a lot of good stuff.”
Read the full article @ Straight.com.
The 11 Most Bizarre Frankenstein Monsters Ever Created
February 16, 2014
7) Deucalion, Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein Series
Dean Koontz’s five-volume Frankenstein books series is kind of insane. So, it starts out like the original novel, Doc creates the monster, monster kills his wife, they hate each other. But in this book, Dr. Frankenstein puts a bomb in the monster’s head, which doesn’t kill it, just scars half of his face. Both survive for hundreds of years, but while the monster starts pretentiously calling himself Deucalion (Prometheus’ son in Greek mythology) and looking for redemption, Dr. F decides his “new race” of synthetic people should replace all the old ones and basically tries to kill the human race. Deucalion, of course, tries to stop him with some local New Orleans cops, because he was programmed not to hurt his creator (back in the 1800s). Oh, and Deucalion can teleport and make small things like coins disappear, because he’s so smart, you see.
Read the full article @ io9.com.
Addison Timlin talks about her leading lady role in Dean-Koontz-penned Odd Thomas
February 16, 2014
“First and foremost,” Timlin says, “you have to share the character.”
“Stormy was not my own, I had to create a version of her. I had to find a way to capture how lovely her spirit was and I did read the books. There was plenty of highlighting and tons of notes. And since Anton helped find his character by training with a real fry cook, I ended up working at an ice cream parlor in New Mexico. Seriously.”
Read the full article @ MetroNews.ca.