Posts by Gene Doucette
Holiday Shopping
Christmas is coming I wanted to take a moment to thank the many, many people who have picked up ebook copies of Immortal and Hellenic Immortal over the past six months or so. Your enthusiasm has been remarkable, and I can’t wait until next year when you have a chance to read Fixer. In a slightly less thankful-more-commercial vein, I…
Read MoreTWCS Black Friday
Black Friday E-Book Sale My publisher, The Writer’s Coffee Shop will be having a one-day sale on all of their E-Books, which includes Immortal and Hellenic Immortal. So if you have not gotten your e-copy of my books, Friday is your chance to download them at a nice price. And if you have already bought them, take a look at…
Read MoreFIXER on Goodreads
Add it to your reading list Just a quick note to let you know I’ve added Fixer to Goodreads. Click here to add it to your reading list!
Read MoreIntroducing FIXER
Fixer is coming If you have been hanging around my blog for a little while you’ve already heard of Fixer, and possibly also read the preview chapter I posted almost exactly a year ago. (Note: the chapter has since been ransacked comprehensively by a large team of editors, but it is not substantially different.) Today I have…
Read MoreAustin memories (4)
Mondays are for trivia I have a few relatives in the South. I don’t talk about them all that often, but they’re there, and they live in portions of Louisiana (my mother grew up in Lake Charles) and parts of Texas, and probably a fair number of other places I’m less familiar with. So when…
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Sunday is for Sandy While all of us authory/publishy types were hanging out in downtown Austin on a brisk Saturday, a hurricane you may have heard something about was aiming for the East Coast, and it was shaping up to be an issue for those of us who A: reside on the East Coast, and…
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Friday night: Never go into room 331 I don’t sleep well my first night in a strange bed. It doesn’t seem to matter how comfortable or strange that bed happens to be, nor how tired I am. (This was an especially large problem the two times I had to go on television.) So my not…
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Various anecdotes I am not the sort of person that instinctively takes photographs, possibly because I am not currently the sort of person who has a phone that takes decent photographs. For most of my life my chosen method of archiving events has been to write about them. For instance, I have few photos of…
Read MoreAmazon listing
While I’m waiting As I’m currently sitting at home waiting for time to run off on the clock so I can grab my already-packed bags and head for the airport, I thought I’d take a moment to get caught up on Tumblr. Kidding! Tumblr’s been down for going on two hours now. Instead, I wanted…
Read MorePrint edition pricing
The cost of printing As I get ready for my weekend in Austin I would like to call your attention to this press release from earlier today: The publishing house that brought you “Fifty Shades of Grey” announces better quality and lower priced books for loyal customers To summarize, the per-book cost for print editions of Immortal and Hellenic…
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