SURVIVING HECTOR: Cover reveal

Surviving Hector: a short story In the next few weeks–I haven’t decided on a date yet–I will be rolling out a new short story, called Surviving Hector.  It will be available as an e-book on the Kindle.  (I don’t have an easy way to do this on Nook or Kobo or iBooks right now, but if…

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SAPPHIRE BLUE review from Roxy

Roxy’s Reviews If you haven’t already picked up a copy of Sapphire Blue there’s a new review for your consideration: Hmmmm, how to describe this book?  Unique, erotic, and surprising.  Yep, that about sums it up for me.  I’m not sure what I was expecting, but I’d have to say the further I got into the book,…

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SAPPHIRE BLUE– $0.99

Pick it up Starting today and lasting for one week, Sapphire Blue is available on e-book for only $0.99.  Pick up a copy!  And then tell other people to do the same! And then steal this banner!

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SAPPHIRE BLUE Sale– Tomorrow!

April 1st I think if you told me two years ago one of my books would be going on sale for a week for $0.99, on April First, and it would be erotica, I would have assumed the entire thing was a practical joke. It’s no joke! Sign up for Gene’s mailing list  

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SAPPHIRE BLUE and the challenge of a new genre

Some words *   *   * In instances such as this, with a book that is seriously the biggest mindfuck EVER, I struggle to even wrap my head around what I just got done reading…. *   *   * I have been rendered speechless many times after reading a book for a whole…

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Between the Words interview

Interview with Gene Doucette from Dale J Rappaneau, Jr An interview with me posted this morning, in which we discuss Sapphire Blue and the problem with writing about sex, my Huffington Post articles, woodchucks, comic books, Buffy, and lots of other things: [Dale J Rappaneau, Jr] In the same article as above, you touch upon the idea of creating…

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SAPPHIRE BLUE review from Passion For Pages

A breathless 4.5 star review The week starts off nicely with a new review from Passion For Pages: For someone just dipping his toes in the erotic pool, this book is fantastic. I love the controversy that surrounds it. How some people see what Argent did as no better than rape, while others (like me) see…

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New Huffington Post article, new SAPPHIRE BLUE review

My Advice I have a new article up at The Huffington Post this morning.  It’s called My Advice Is to Ignore My Advice. Here’s the secret: writing a novel is really hard. That’s why writers will fall over themselves to tell you how they did it, because frankly nobody else quite understands the degree of…

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Huffington Post article

How to write a good sex scene I made my debut today as a contributor to the Huffington Post with an article on How to write a good sex scene.  Give it a read! Incidentally the rest of the title was supposed to be “(or how not to write a bad sex scene)” which is really a…

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SAPPHIRE BLUE Blog Tour Day 11

New review We have two stops the tour today.  The first is at Mummy’s Naughty Corner where we find a very nice, albeit tragically brief review of Sapphire Blue: Cover :- 5 stars Sex/steaminess :- 4 stars Story line :- 4 stars Characters :- 4 stars Overall rating :-4.25 stars The review is here New excerpt At…

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