by vjbooks | Apr 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey ) Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying...
by vjbooks | Jan 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(independentweekly.com, Jan 6, Michael Sneyd) The title itself suggests that Dean Koontz may be reverting farther back into his romantic styled writing for this novel. Knowing that it’s a release of the horror/thriller genre spooked me to think that this book...
by vjbooks | Jan 10, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 15) Koontz notes in an Amazon.com interview that the idea for Your Heart Belongs to Me came during a phone conversaton with a friend. “Story ideas have come to me from lines in songs, froma scrap of overheard conversation, from...
by vjbooks | Dec 11, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 8 ) In an interview on Amazon.com, Dean Koontz talks about how he researches his bestsellers, “I never go on-line. My writing schedule and other obligations keep me busy 18/7. The other six hours, I sleep . . I do most of my...