Readers are not sheep. They are wolves, filled with curiosity, adventurous, always hungry for a tasty treat with at least a little substance to it. The readers I know and love, the kind of readers to whom I owe my career, are more likely to say “woof” than “baa,” and not just because I sometimes write stories with dogs in them. Thank God you’re out there. If my writing career had failed, I would have made a lousy plumber; if I’d taken up carpentry, I’d now have six instead of ten fingers, and everyone would call me “Stubs.”
I LOVE that Dean Koontz did NOT give up when his publishers didn't like this book because it was so different from his others! He is correct: Readers are not sheep! And, "Lightning" turned out to be my ALL-TIME favorite of his!
