Darkbluemullet asked Dean Koontz:

Would you ever consider a sequel or prequel to a previously written book, going back some time? Watchers perhaps?

Dean Koontz I’ve always said I wouldn’t write a sequel to anything, least of all to Watchers, if I couldn’t think of a better story than the first one. Devoted, coming on March 31, isn’t a sequel to Watchers, doesn’t have any of the same characters, but you might like it. The story takes a new approach to some of the same issues. The human-dog bond fascinates me, as does the idea that some degree of intelligence is perhaps a little more widely spread in nature than we quite realize. In Watchers, there’s a genetic-engineering component, but I went somewhere else altogether in Devoted.

What if 100,000 years of human-dog bonding has led to an evolutionary change in certain dogs, in re their intelligence, and what if a secret community of them (they call themselves the “Mysterium”) lives among us? Someone recently told me that, considering the villain, Devoted is like a scary cross between ET and The Fly, and though I dislike that kind of Hollywood shorthand, there’s some truth in it.

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