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Innocence arrives today
December 10, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Xe6dZeaus
Buy it @ Amazon.com.
Innocence sans Wilderness
December 10, 2013
I have it on good authority that the Charnel House editions of Innocence will not include Wilderness. However, publisher Joe Stefko is looking to do a separate edition of Wilderness but that is yet to be confirmed.
Dread Central review of the Odd Thomas film
December 7, 2013
After a two-year legal battle to get Stephen Sommers’ latest supernatural thriller out in theatres, Odd Thomas is finally making its premiere at this year’s Toronto After Dark film festival, and fans of the novel written by Dean Koontz will definitely get a kick out of this genre bender as it stays true to significant portions of the source material.
Opening with a self-deprecating voiceover, Odd Thomas sets its quirky tone right off the bat by introducing viewers to Odd (Yelchin), a young, small town line cook who happens to have clairvoyant abilities—such as seeing ghosts. With the help of police chief Porter (Dafoe) and his annoyingly cute ice creamer scooper girlfriend (Timlin), Odd uses these skills to help avenge murdered souls and yet always remains under the radar and continues to live a seemingly normal life.
Read the full review @ DreadCentral.com.
Innocence limited editions up for pre-order
December 7, 2013
Charnel House is once again producing both a numbered and lettered edition of Innocence.
Innocence, by Dean Koontz.
The Signed Limited Edition
Dean compassionately illustrates the beauty and the brutality inherent in the human race. He splits the atom with this one.
Arguably the most beautiful book Charnel House has created to date. Paper has been handmade for this edition by randomly pouring two colors into the process, creating different cloud-like patterns on each sheet. Each unique book resembles a thick chunk of a cloudy blue sky.
A harlequin faced marionette drawn by Phil Parks and printed in two colors by hand via letterpress will be tipped in every book.
Each exquisitely printed book is sewn and bound by hand and finished off with a white silk ribbon bookmark. Each book is hand signed by the author.
5.75 X 8.75 trim / 396 pages
150 Numbered copies:
Bound in full Cloudy Sky paper
$350.00
26 Lettered copies:
Bound in full Cloudy Sky paper with baby blue Moroccan leather along both fore-edges
$1,000.00
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
Saint Odd release date
December 7, 2013
According to the Holidays 2013 issue of Useless News the final Odd Thomas book, Saint Odd, will be published in December 2014. No further details have been made available at this time.
The Holidays 2013 issue of Useless News has arrived
December 7, 2013
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
Interview in December issue of Book Page
December 1, 2013
The December 2013 issue of Book Page contains a full-page interview titled “Finding Hope in Life’s Dark Side” by Jay Macdonald.
The print version of Book Page can be found in some bookstores (including Books-A-Million) and at many libraries around the country. The cover and the ads are customized for the distribution point, but all contain the same basic content.
If you’re unable to find a print copy, you can also find the interview on the Book Page Web site.
New Edition of "Love of Goldens" available
December 1, 2013
A third hardcover edition of Love of Goldens has been released. This time with a new cover photograph and sans dust jacket. And, according to the sticker on the cover, this edition is exclusive to the Books-A-Million bookstore. Unfortunately I can’t find it on their Web site so if you want a copy, you’ll need access to a BAM or a friend who lives near one.
For those unaware of this bargain book, it contains “A Mind of Its Own” by Dean, which is actually an excerpt from Watchers.
Ask Dean: If you could have dinner with one of your own characters, who would it be?
November 30, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYIrveTdpY
Ask Dean: Which of your books do you get asked about most often?
November 30, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsikbDRX1Fk
Ask Dean: What are you currently watching on television?
November 30, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBUPeeD-RyY
Dark Harvest gallery
November 24, 2013
Sarasota author John MacDonald's work on the verge of a renaissance
November 24, 2013
So many of John D. MacDonald’s books had gone out of print in recent years that fans often had to settle for dog-eared used copies, sometimes at collector prices. E-books were not available at all.
But now, nearly 30 years after his death, one of Sarasota’s most prominent and admired writers is experiencing a literary rebirth.
Random House, the world’s largest trade publishing house, is re-issuing its complete library of MacDonald’s output, ranging from crime thrillers such as “Cape Fear” (originally “The Executioners”) to more obscure works that even dipped into science fiction.
Of the 71 books, none have previously been available as e-books and more than 30 had been out of print since the 1990s. All of the works, including those that had remained in print, will have new covers and introductions.
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Tavani said that best-selling contemporary writers, including Stephen King, a part-time Casey Key resident, have championed the revival. Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series, wrote a new introduction for the McGee series. Another writer, Dean Koontz, authored the introduction for MacDonald’s non-McGee books.
Read the full article @ HeraldTribune.com.
Two articles about Beautiful Old Dogs
November 24, 2013
10 Beautiful Old Dogs To Celebrate Senior Dog Month
While many people just naturally think of adopting a puppy, there are so many reasons to adopt an older dog. Now a new book pays tribute to this unique canine group and also shows us many reasons why senior dogs are special. Beautiful Old Dogs: A Loving Tribute to Our Senior Best Friends, edited by David Tabatsky, is filled with gorgeous photography by the late Gary Gross. While Gross may have been noted in fashion, he later went on to become a leading dog trainer. This book captures purely stunning photos of senior dogs in their glory in an effort to show how beautiful and loving senior dogs really are, along with uplifting essays and poetry by Anna Quindlen, Ally Sheedy, Christopher Durang, Doris Day, Dean Koontz, Marlo Thomas, and others.
Spokesdog’s Book Review: Beautiful Old Dogs
When I was asked to review this book there was something about the title that made me anxious to get to it. The title is short, sweet, simple and says it all.
Have you noticed some grey hair on your dog’s muzzle? Does it seem your dog is growing more lumps on a monthly basis? Have you noticed your dog is napping more? There is no way for humans or animals to beat the aging process although humans trying to fake out the mirror may pay for a little nip or tuck here and there. Dogs seem to take aging in stride as they are not consumed with our vanity.
Dean Koontz's 'Innocence' Is A Fall From Grace
November 24, 2013
Heads up: the reviewer didn’t like it.
Dean Koontz’s newest novel, Innocence (December 10; Bantam), is virtually guaranteed to be a runaway holiday bestseller. With a primo release date and the tried and true name of Dean Koontz stamped on the cover, grandmas everywhere will be salivating to slide this gift-wrapped treasure into the soft hands of their bookworm grandsons. After 30+ years of repeated bestsellers, Koontz is no longer an author, he’s a brand. He represents something you buy because you’ve always bought it, like a particular type of canned chili––he’s not particularly good, but you stick to what you know. And when it comes to Christmastime, a new Dean Koontz hardcover is like a strangely familiar glitter, winking at you from a Barnes and Noble easel rack.
Read the full review @ Bloody Disgusting.