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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.
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.
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.
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
Dean Koontz on His Strange New Supernatural Thriller Innocence
December 15, 2013
Dean Koontz on poisonous honey:
“If bees were to feed only on oleander and produce honey, the honey would kill you … When I was researching poisons I was fascinated that here was this shrub that in California is grown along the side of the highway in great big hedges, and one flower of it can kill you … Occasionally because people are not aware of its toxicity they chop it up and throw it in a salad to see what it’ll taste like, and it kills them. Or sometimes beekeepers who are amateurs don’t make sure what their bees are feeding on, and will produce poisonous honey. Everything in life is dangerous.”
Read the full interview @ Wired.com.
Best-selling author Dean Koontz talks 'Innocence'
December 15, 2013
via USA Today.
A Special Thank You from Dean Koontz
December 15, 2013
I would like to thank public library staffs all across the country for choosing INNOCENCE for their LibraryReads December 2013 Top Ten list. As a child in a family too poor to afford books, libraries were my lifeline. And when I couldn’t pay the overdue fines, they let it slide. I think I owe them $206,514—so I’m delighted they’ve forgiven me and done me this honor with INNOCENCE!
Read the full post @ Random Revelations.
Q&A with Dean Koontz: On His Innocence – and His Future
December 15, 2013
EVERYDAY EBOOK: You are an author who writes so brilliantly and prolifically across genres. Are there common threads among your books? Among your characters?
DEAN KOONTZ: You make me blush. But give me just a moment, and I’ll get over it. Well, I seem to be endlessly combining genres in different ways because as a reader I like all kinds of fiction and want to write in virtually every genre. When I first started doing this more than thirty years ago, publishers weren’t enthusiastic, but now it’s become acceptable, so I’ve never had to learn a trade like plumbing or carpentry. The common thread among the books is my view of the world: that it is a place of layered mysteries, of profound wonders and great beauty, where there is darkness and Evil but also hope that can’t be extinguished. If one thread runs through most of my lead characters, it is that they are not special agents with nearly superhuman skills, not indestructible mesomorphs, but ordinary people – masons, bartenders, gardeners, fry cooks – who suddenly find themselves in extraordinary situations. Sometimes they’re even people with disabilities, such as Chris Snow in Fear Nothing and Leilani Klonk in One Door Away from Heaven. Also, I find myself more interested in characters who are, in one way or another, outsiders or on the edges of society.
Read the full interview @ EverydayEbook.com.
A Grace of Softness in a Hard World
December 15, 2013
Here’s a review of Innocence with a definite Catholic perspective:
I was reminded of Riva when I began reading best-selling author Dean Koontz’s latest novel, “Innocence.” Its main character and narrator, Addison, is a young man for whom the unkindness of strangers (and even family members) is the norm.
Addison says, “When I entered the world, the twenty-year-old daughter of the midwife fled the bedroom in fright…When the midwife tried to smother me in the birthing blanket, my mother, although weakened by a difficult labor, drew a handgun from a nightstand drawer and, with a threat, saved me from being murdered.”
Though Addison loved his mother, she could barely tolerate being around him. He observed, “She tried hard to love me, and to an extent she did. But I was a unique burden.”
Read the full review @ Patheos.com.
Winning mystery thriller by Dean Koontz: Odd Thomas
December 15, 2013
Here’s a German review of the Odd Thomas film:
Blockbuster director Stephen Sommers (“The Mummy,” “Van Helsing”, “GI Joe”) has taken perhaps the most popular hero of bestselling author Dean Koontz. The question is naturally Odd Thomas – a young man who communicate with spirits and can foresee disaster.
In his first film adventure from 10 December is going to have on DVD and Blu-ray, the hero faces a special challenge: snack chef Thomas (Anton Yelchin) knows immediately that his city is in great danger when a stranger enters the fast-food restaurant.Because this has countless Bodachs in tow. These are dark, shadowy figures who are nourished by misfortune and destruction of people and surrounded evil.
But what exactly will happen? When Thomas supported by his girlfriend Stormy (Addison Timlin) and Police Chief Wyatt Porter (Willem Dafoe) hires research, it quickly becomes clear: The life of all urban residents in peril.
Read the full article @ hitchecker.de.