Archive for September 2010
Immortal: a short delay
Publishing is F-U-N! I held off on formally announcing this for as long as I could, but it looks as if there is going to be a delay in availability for Immortal. How big? Five or six days. Not big, in other words. But since I’ve been touting the very entertaining 10-1-10 release date for…
Read MoreBlog review for Immortal
Thoughts that got stuck in my head Some nice comments from blogger Sue London regarding Immortal: “He has the wit of Douglas Adams, the sarcasm of Jim Butcher, the droll plotting of Spider Robinson, and the sly twists of Neil Gaiman…” Read the blog here
Read MoreWhile we're waiting
That hiss you hear is my head imploding slowly Officially, Immortal is out at the end of this week. I say “officially” only because there are things that have to get done in a certain order for the release to actually happen entirely on schedule, and since they haven’t all happened yet, my cynical “I’ve…
Read MoreThe Pigeon Post: Immortal review
New Review A new review posted yesterday for Immortal! This one’s interesting; the reviewer raised questions I never thought to ask. Actually, scratch that: I never thought of them as questions at all. Read it here Goodreads Also, just a quick note: There is a second giveaway underway right now at GoodReads for one copy…
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This might mean I’m getting old The other night I was tasked to obtain milk immediately. This was after I arrived home on my bike– I bike commute, as you know— to find my wife barely able to form complete sentences, as she’d gone the entire day without coffee. (She can’t drink coffee without milk.…
Read MoreIMMORTAL: Resale cover
Resale cover Below is a copy of the first official resale cover for Immortal. We could fit only one blurb on this cover, so the others are inside on the front. Additional blurbs will be either added to the back– we may take away some text there in the future– or included in the front,…
Read MoreBrave new world of e-publishing
A long time ago in a land far, far away Way back in 1999–which (and I hope you’re sitting down) was eleven years ago(!) (!!)– I was asked a question by an online friend, said question being this: do I have a novel I would like her to publish? This is a question many of…
Read MoreImmortal on Amazon.com
I might make this more complicated than it needs to be Here is the short version of the larger point of this blog entry: Immortal is listed on Amazon, and you can add it to your wish list right now by clicking here. But wait, don’t click that yet. I have more to tell you…
Read MoreWritersNewsWeekly.com: Immortal Review
Book Review for Immortal The world of fantasy has been growing steadily popular over the past decade from stories about witches and wizards to the lives of an obscene amount of vampires. Readers have been thirsting for the next great book and after sifting through practically every book on my reading list and becoming thoroughly…
Read MoreImmortal: a new blurb
Second big book blurb for Immortal In creating the ageless Adam, Gene Doucette has conjured up a character as witty as he is old, and as charming as he is depraved. IMMORTAL is by turns thrilling, moving, and deeply, darkly funny. –Eric Garcia, author of Repo Men, Matchstick Men and the Anonymous Rex series
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