Posts by Gene Doucette
A New Short Story and Other News
The Hole in the Garden News! I have a new short story out in Lightspeed Magazine. It’s called The Hole in the Garden and you can read it online right now. I loved writing this story, which came to me as I was recovering from a minor surgery and could not (because the surgery was on my…
Read MoreGraffiti on the Wall of the Universe: Audiobook!
Great news! The audio edition of Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe is now available! I know a lot of you only know my work from the audio editions, so I’m really happy to (finally) have this version out. And just like the other books in the Sorrow Falls series, it’s narrated by the one and only Steve…
Read MoreGraffiti on the Wall of the Universe release day!
It’s release day! Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe, the third book in the Sorrow Falls series, is ON SALE NOW! If you want to know what Annie Collins has been up to all these years, now is your chance to find out. Will there be aliens? Yes, there will be aliens. Will they be…
Read MoreGraffiti on the Wall of the Universe: Prologue
We are now a month away from the 7/25 release of Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe and I don’t know about you, but the wait is killing me. But at least I, unlike you, have the regular chapter updates of the audiobook recording to keep me going. (I also kinda already know what happens in…
Read MoreGraffiti on the Wall of the Universe
Sorrow Falls book three Hello! It’s been a while! (For reasons. I’ll get into it a little below.) I wanted to drop in with a quick blog post to let everybody know there is a NEW novel coming! The title is Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe and it’s the third book in the Sorrow Falls…
Read MoreThe Ocean in the Sky
Happy to announce that The Ocean in the Sky, the long-awaited third book in the Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle series is now available! The Ocean in the Sky focuses primarily on two previously-seen characters: Dorn Jimbal (first introduced in Two Suns at Sunset and Xto Djbbit (the astronaut last seen at the end of The Madness of Kings.) While never…
Read MoreInvasion Nation: A Kindle Vella story
We’ll start with the news first, which is that I have a new story available right now called Invasion Nation. You can find it in only one place and in only one format, which is right here. Now let’s back up and talk about where that link sends you and what you’re looking at. What is Kindle…
Read MoreThe Apocalypse Seven: Welcome to the apocalypse!
Well folks it took a while, but it’s finally happening: Welcome to release day for The Apocalypse Seven! I figured we’d get here eventually, but I didn’t expect it to feel quite as long as it felt. But then, there was a pandemic between the time I wrote it and the time we published it, and…
Read MoreHypnopompic Circumstance
My latest short story, Hypnopompic Circumstance, is available online from Lightspeed Magazine as of today! Read, or listen if you’d prefer. And if you want it on an e-reader (to have a copy forever) you can purchase the issue! And, after you’ve finished reading, check out the Author Spotlight, in which I discuss the writing…
Read MoreThe Apocalypse Seven: Pandemic Thoughts
It would be very cool if I could claim that I got the idea to write The Apocalypse Seven during the pandemic of 2020, but I didn’t; I wrote it in April and May of 2019. And was under contract with the publisher by Thanksgiving, 2019, a month before anyone had even heard of the novel coronavirus,…
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