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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
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.
In Innocence, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with readers forever.
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.
Want to watch Odd Thomas? Get DirecTV.
December 15, 2013
It looks like if you have DirecTV service you can now watch Odd Thomas via their On Demand (TV) or Online streaming service for just $10.99.
RIP Peter O'Toole
December 15, 2013
Deeply Odd – Charnel House Limited (Numbered) edition
December 15, 2013
Best-selling author Dean Koontz talks 'Innocence'
December 15, 2013
via USA Today.
Dean in Doctor Sleep
December 10, 2013
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Innocence review & Dean interview @ Shelf Awareness
December 7, 2013
Dean Koontz knows exactly what story you’ll be thinking about after the opening chapters of Innocence. His narrator-protagonist Addison Goodheart, a shunned outcast who lives alone deep below the city streets, comes up to the surface late one night and, making his way through the public library, catches sight of a haunting young woman fleeing an angry pursuer. Once the threat has passed, Addison figures out where she must be hiding and reaches out to her; she agrees to meet and talk with him. “I have no illusions about romance,” he tells her during that first conversation. “Beauty and the Beast is a nice fairy tale, but fairy tales are for books.”
Of course, Innocence is a book, and so ultimately there will be much of the fairy tale in Addison’s account of how he becomes 18-year-old Gwyneth’s companion–not so much her hero or protector as a bearer of witness. Gwyenth’s father was murdered by the man who had stolen much of his fortune, the same man from whom she was running earlier (who has an even more sinister fate in mind for her). Addison tags along as she tries to find evidence of this villain’s crimes–and stays with her as she scrambles to protect those closest to her from the inevitable attempts at revenge. He has fallen in love with her, and his devotion is absolute. “She would always be blameless,” he tells us, “for I knew the purity of her heart.”
Read the full review and an Interview with Dean @ Shelf-Awareness.com.
Ask Dean: How did you get the idea for Innocence?
December 7, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtyTc_O7Rc
Ask Dean: Which of your books do you get asked about most often?
December 7, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsikbDRX1Fk
Patterson mentions Koontz
December 7, 2013
PW Picks: Books of the Week, December 9, 2013
December 6, 2013
Innocence by Dean Koontz (Bantam) -In this imaginative, mystical thriller from bestseller Koontz, Addison Goodheart, a 26-year-old man so “exceedingly ugly” that his appearance causes “the most terrible rage” in regular people, lives alone in a hidden part of an American metropolis, but views his solitude as a gift that has enabled him to recognize “reality’s complex dimensions.” An unexpected encounter in a deserted library with Gwyneth, an 18-year-old Goth girl who’s the target of the rare-book curator’s lust, throws him for a loop. Addison bonds with Gwyneth, who suspects her nemesis, J. Ryan Telford, of murdering her father by sending him poisoned honey.
Read the full article @ PublishersWeekly.com