Michael Sauers
Join me in the Dean Koontz Hangout on January 23rd
January 15, 2014
It looks like I’m going to be one of the official participants in the Google+ hangout with Dean Koontz on January 23rd. Full details can be found on Google+.
Needed: Innocence ad in People magazine
January 11, 2014
According to the Dean Koontz Facebook account the ad shown in this post appears in the December 16, 2013 issue of People magazine. I have a copy in front of me and it does not. Maybe it appears in a different issue from December 2013? Can anyone assist?
Horror Novel Reviews: Innocence
January 7, 2014
Dean Koontz has proven himself to be a master of character development. He has a unique skill at being able to create relatively innocent children or adults, and then of putting them into highly dangerous situations with villains who are filled with such inner darkness that there’s not a shred of light emanating from their souls, if they have one.
Such is the case with Innocence.
Read the full review @ HorrorNovelReviews.com.
Innocence Review in People Magazine
January 7, 2014
You can find it on page 54 of the 13 January 2014 issue.
Bookreporter reviews Innocence
January 4, 2014
Having spent most of his career penning primarily suspense and horror novels, the Dean Koontz of the past decade or so has turned far more introspective. The end result has been works of fiction that deal more in characters, spirituality and faith than being driven by traditional good versus evil in supernatural settings.
INNOCENCE is primarily the story of two very unique individuals. Calling New York City home, but inhabiting a sort of netherworld of their own, the mysterious Addison meets up with Gwyneth on a snowy evening while most of the city’s residents are sleeping. Addison has lived in an underground series of rooms for most of his life and has an odd appearance that is constantly covered by a ski mask and a hood. Gwyneth sports a Goth look that strangely resembles the eerie marionettes both she and Addison fear and seek out.
Read the full review @ bookreporter.com.
Innocence featured on The Nook Blog
January 4, 2014
It’s not much, but it The Nook Blog did a post on Innocence back on December 27th.
Dean's New Year's Resolution
January 4, 2014
Source: NYPost.com
Odd Apocalypse on the bargain shelf
January 4, 2014
For those of you who wait for the hardcover to hit the bargain books shelf, now’s your chance. Last night my local Barnes & Noble had a whole stack of them at $7.98. All of them seemed to have the “Augmented Reality” sticker on the cover. (I didn’t dismantle the whole display to check every copy but the top five had the sticker.)
Koontz read in 2013
December 31, 2013
Over on my main blog I’ve posted the numbers regarding what I read in 2013. Here, for the record are the Koontz-related reads from 2013:
- Deeply Odd (February)
- Shattered (June)
- Wilderness (October)
- Innocence (December)
Here’s looking forward to The City, Saint Odd and the John D. MacDonald introductions in 2014.
I would know peace…
December 30, 2013
"The Limited" – New York Times Book Review
December 29, 2013
Chase on CD
December 28, 2013
Looks like the novel Chase is finally getting both an audio CD and MP3-CD release on June 10, 2104. No cover art is available yet.
Phantoms Trade Paperback cover
December 28, 2013
Order today for a January 7, 2014 delivery.
Complete set of Innocence
December 28, 2013
Well, at least a complete set of the US editions.
Happy Holidays from Dean Koontz!
December 24, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQkaDivSYc
Ask Dean: If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be?
December 22, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhdlvobiqMg
Random House's Innocence Reader's Guide
December 22, 2013
Especially useful for book groups that need discussion questions.
Questions for Discussion:
1. What do you make of the epigraph by Petrarch, “Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together?” Would you agree with this statement? How does it play out in the novel? What other juxtaposed qualities figure into the story—for example, arrogance versus humility—and what do these themes imply about human nature and our world at large? How did the epigraph inform your idea of the story at the onset, and did that idea take on new meaning by the end?
Read the full guide @ RandomHouse.com.
Charnel House edition of Innocence featured in New York Times
December 21, 2013
The Limited: Hardcovers, paperbacks, e-books — the combined lists include them all. But what about collectible limited editions, wherein a specialty publisher produces a small run of books to an exacting standard, often by hand? (Think of the old leather-bound Franklin Library titles, for example.) The Times doesn’t track those, since by their nature they sell in numbers too small to register. That doesn’t mean they never intersect with the best-seller lists, though. One such publisher is Joe Stefko, the owner of Charnel House books in Catskill, N.Y., who for more than 20 years has printed limited editions of Dean Koontz’s novels. Stefko, 58, a former drummer for Meat Loaf, got interested in fine books when he played with the Turtles. “Other bands had drug dealers coming to their dressing rooms,” he told a music fan site some years ago, “and we had book dealers coming to ours.” As you’d guess from its name — and its address, P.O. Box 666 — Charnel House specializes in horror, and Stefko has designed covers with protruding fangs (for Christopher Moore), real bullets (for Stephen King) and deep fingernail gouges (for Tim Powers). “These are commercial books,” he told me in a phone interview, “but I turn them into fine art.”
Read the full article @ NewYorkTimes.com. This article will also appear in the Book Section of the Sunday New York Times for December 29, 2013.
Sony Movie Channel airing Intensity in January
December 18, 2013
The New Year is bringing a few new changes to Sony Movie Channel’s programming as the network unveils a change to its weekly Thursday night programming block. Starting January 2, SMC will be airing suspense, thriller and horror films every Thursday in prime time due to the growth in popularity of genre entertainment. Films like THE NET with Sandra Bullock (1/2); WOLF (1/9); Dean Koontz’s INTENSITY (1/16); and SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (1/30) now have a permanent home on the Channel every week.
Read the full press release @ PR Newswire and see the full schedule of airings @ SonyMovieChannel.com.
Dean on The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast
December 16, 2013
Topics include: Innocence, Wilderness, the Odd Thomas film, a possible Frankenstein TV series, The City, Secret Forest, and Saint Odd.