SURVIVING HECTOR: Cover reveal

Surviving Hector: a short story In the next few weeks–I haven’t decided on a date yet–I will be rolling out a new short story, called Surviving Hector.  It will be available as an e-book on the Kindle.  (I don’t have an easy way to do this on Nook or Kobo or iBooks right now, but if…

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SAPPHIRE BLUE and the challenge of a new genre

Some words *   *   * In instances such as this, with a book that is seriously the biggest mindfuck EVER, I struggle to even wrap my head around what I just got done reading…. *   *   * I have been rendered speechless many times after reading a book for a whole…

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PRICE DROP

New prices We have brought down the e-book prices on everything!  Same great books, now for a lot less! *   *   * Immortal – Surviving sixty thousand years takes cunning and more than a little luck. But in the twenty-first century, Adam confronts new dangers–someone has found out what he is, a demon…

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SAPPHIRE BLUE Blog Tour Day 7

Two reviews show the contrast Here are two reviews that offer an excellent contrast in reactions I’ve seen so far to Sapphire Blue. The first is a scheduled stop for today’s tour, from Sarah Aisling, who knows me from my other work: This is where things become difficult for me as a reviewer. I can’t fault Mr.…

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FIXER review from the Masquerade Crew

A 4.5 star review Last week the Masquerade Crew featured an interview with me.  Today, their review of Fixer debuted.  Lots of nice things to say from reviewer Stacy T: The characters (the non-evil characters) are all likeable and the plot, while requiring belief in scientific advances, does not necessitate a doctorate to understand. The…

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Interview with the Masquerade Crew

I love the smell of a new interview in the morning I woke up to the pleasant surprise of my name turning up in dozens of retweets of an interview I gave a couple of weeks ago.  It posted overnight. You’ve written and published a novel, congratulations! How do you define ‘success’ in terms of…

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Texas Book Festival 2013

Returning to Austin I will be returning to Austin this year for the annual Texas Book Festival!  You may recall last year’s trip, in which I learned exciting things like how to pronounce Chuy’s, the difference between fiction and non-fiction, and how to survive a hurricane in a hotel nowhere near the hurricane.  This year I am hoping…

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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…

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New 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…

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My 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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