The collective insanity of the publishing industry

Unless you’re a writer, I imagine you haven’t been paying quite as close attention to the publishing industry and all its weirdness as I have, and that’s a shame, because it’s been really entertaining. Actually, entertaining isn’t the right word.  It’s been insane, but the kind of insane that’s unreasonably fun to watch from a safe remove.…

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The vegan cookbooks on the shelf

I’m sorry.  I’m going to talk about losing weight and also not gaining weight, and trying to eat healthier, and what that even means, and also, I will be discussing vegan foods. Yes, I am apologizing for the last thing. I received two vegan cookbooks for Christmas, from my daughter, who thought it would be…

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Welcome to the website

Last year, sometime between the publication of Eve and The Spaceship Next Door I decided I should probably do something about my website problem. Specifically, I didn’t have a website.  Not really.  I thought I did, insofar as if you typed my name into a search engine you would land on a place called ‘genedoucette.me’ in which words had been placed…

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