Folks, believe it or not, I bought a brand-new HP computer two weeks ago (since my old comp finally died after 7 loyal years), and the thing decided to spontaneously combust on me the day before yesterday, shortly after I had contacted the contest winner!    

So, I took it back up to Best Buy.  Even though I had missed the 14-day return policy by TWO days, the supervisor over at GeekSquad decided to honor it anyway.  But, they did not have the same model computer in stock to swap with my now fried computer.  Being the person that I am, I decided to do a step up from the previous model and choose a powerful new Dell that was in stock.  Oh yeah... 

Perhaps I should have just picked that one in the first place.

But I couldn't wait for HP to send me a new comp of the same model.  I had a contest to run and a copy of Relentless to send out!

First of all, I want to send out a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the second ever, Dean Koontz Fanspace contest!  So many of you posted great pics proudly holding your favorite book, and some of you were even quite humorous and creative in the process.  Thank you so much.  I had a lot of fun seeing the various choices of favorites and even some of your entire collections!  Nicely done. 

Now, in the interest of fairness, I had stated in the contest blog before that I would be "randomly" picking the winner of this contest from those who had entered.  But since so many of you posted so many fantastic pics, I felt gulilty giving out just one.  If it had been up to me, I would have given everyone a free copy.  But alas, that was beyond my means. 

Instead, I decided to have FIVE winners instead of one!  But first, I have to explain the terrible ordeal I went through.

See, I figured in order to be fair, I'd randomly pick the 5 winners from a hat.



So I chose my Freddy Krueger hat to use.



But unbeknownst to me, I seemed to anger Freddy Krueger himself.  It may have had something to do with that flaming bag of poo I left on his front doorstep last Halloween.



So due to this new supernatural threat to my contest, I decided to enlist the help of Jason Voorhees.



Folks, it's no holds barred at this point.  Jason kicks it off with a machete swing to Freddy's neck.



Freddy counters with a swing to Jason's face.



Well, um...I think Jason is standing on Freddy's head...



I don't know why, but Chucky gets involved and stomps on both of them.



But in the end, Micheal Myers brings the house down like the true horror titan he is.



At this point, it really shouldn't be a surprise as to why Michael Myers is my favorite of them all.



Now back to the contest at hand.  To make the contest even more fair, I decided to allow one of my cats to pick the 5 winners.  Shadow was happy to oblige since Alien was too busy drinking out of the toilet, and Antonio was too busy trying to flush Alien.

So congratulations goes to:






I swear folks, the fact that the above winners were the first two entries in the contest was sheer coincidence.  I kid you not.





Sadly, due to my computer issues, the book shipments will be delayed a day or two.  Hope you guys can hold out a little while longer!  (LOL)  Congratulations!

 

Folks it is here!  Relentless hit stores today, and from the reviews I've read so far, it seems to be an extremely fun ride!  In about a week, I'll be posting a discussion blog for it (something I've neglected for the past couple of books), so I look forward to your thoughts and opinions. 




Synopsis:

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human nature—and the anarchy simmering just beneath society’s surface—as a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice….

Bestselling novelist Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children’s book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionately dubbed “Spooky,” and a non-collie named Lassie, who’s all but part of the family.

So Cubby knows he shouldn’t let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to him—even if it does appear in the nation’s premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic, Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it, even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she’d tell Cubby to ignore them, too.

Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a career—or a life.

But Shearman Waxx isn’t what Cubby expects; and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn’t take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life.

Fearless, funny, utterly compelling, Relentless is Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherish—and of those who would tear those bonds asunder.