Letter from the Strange Highways ARC

March 16, 2014

Just found this little item stuck in my ARC copy of Strange Highways:

Dean on beta

March 16, 2014

Just picked myself up a copy of Demon Seed on beta. Looks like Watchers was the only other film released on beta and I have a line on a copy or two. On the laserdisc front, I just discovered that Phantoms was released in that format so I’m on the look out for one of those too.

Science Fiction Book Club ad from 1987

March 15, 2014

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

• ‘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

• ‘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.