Book updates
Distribution Have you ever walked into a bookstore, looked around, and said to yourself, “Why aren’t any of the novels by my favorite author, the incredibly handsome Gene Doucette, for sale in this establishment?” Of course you have! Well now you can walk right up to the nearest employee and tell them to correct this, because…
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to the printer
New new Sapphire Blue cover As you all know, I recently revealed the cover design for Sapphire Blue. It was a glorious, naive time, before I knew about things like RGB and CMYK and what is wrong with the color blue. A time of peace. A time about a week and a half ago. Okay, so here’s what’s…
Read MoreSAPPHIRE BLUE Cover
Cover design process The act of designing a cover for a novel is, from my side of things, pretty uncomplicated. The publisher has people who do these things, I just have to give them an idea of what I’m looking for and help find images of the elements needed to assemble the whole thing. The…
Read MoreWorking title for Immortal 3
Titles are hard I hate the idea of working on a novel whose title is Immortal 3 because we all know unless this is a movie it’s not going to end up actually being called Immortal 3. (It should be a movie though. Hollywood: give me a call! We’ll do lunch!) The problem is no title has been…
Read MoreNew FIXER reviews
Goodreads reviews It’s been a while since I’ve shared any new reviews of Fixer for everyone. Let me rectify that immediately. Below are a couple of nice reviews that popped up recently on Goodreads: I admit, when he started introducing physicists into a story about time, I was dreading the seemingly inevitable as you know, Bob…
Read MoreIntroducing g. doucette
On pen names As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry my next book, Sapphire Blue is erotica. Today I want to talk about pen names a little bit. I am using a pen name, but that name is g.doucette, which it doesn’t take a genius to figure out is me. That’s because I don’t really have a…
Read MoreMy next novel
So as to not bury the lede First things first: my next novel is called Sapphire Blue and it will be coming out (tentatively) on February 27, 2014. In terms of genre, Sapphire Blue is definitely two things, and possibly three other things, and the two definite things it is are things you are probably not expecting…
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Facebook People, I have been on Facebook for so long now that when I joined my children were scandalized by the news. This is how you tell a social network is The Latest Thing, incidentally: if your teenage kids have to sit down and think about whether or not they’re okay with you using it.…
Read MoreIn defense of fan fiction
On fan fiction I don’t write fan fiction, or publish fiction that existed at another time as fan fiction. I also don’t read fan fiction. To the best of my knowledge nothing I have written has spawned any manner of fan fiction out there, but it’s entirely possible I’m wrong because (again) I don’t read…
Read MoreThe best thing I ever wrote
An unusual weekend On Saturday morning I attended the funeral of family friend Russ Morgan, who in life had been (among many other things) my father’s best friend. I last spoke to Russ in 2006 on the night of my father’s funeral. I don’t remember much of what we discussed, only that we had the conversation…
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