In book two, I thought, "He's on a journey to absolute humility," which I didn't know how I was going to write about since I don't have an experience of absolute humility myself. But the character just had dimension after dimension that I found fascinating. Q: Is the ending of the Odd Thomas series a sad occasion for you?Ī: When I finished the first one, Odd Thomas, I thought, "This is liable to be more than one book," but at most I thought it would be a trilogy. In the meantime, we caught up with Koontz, 69, for a phone interview from his home in Newport Coast, Calif. 29, sponsored by USA TODAY and Intercast. Koontz will be the featured guest on a special online video chat with fans from 2 p.m. 4 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list), in which the character returns to his hometown of Pico Mundo, Calif., to fulfill the destiny foretold in the series opener in 2003. Now the series is ending with its seventh installment, Saint Odd (currently No. In recent years, his series featuring Odd Thomas - a young fry cook with paranormal powers, including the ability to see the spirits of the "lingering dead" - has been particularly popular, with 20 million copies sold to date. Dean Koontz is one of the world's most popular novelists, with 450 million books sold worldwide.
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