A new review, a contest winner, an open contest

By Gene Doucette | May 5, 2011 |

A new review There is a new review of Immortal in the world today, over at Tracey Baptiste‘s site, Knitting With Pencils.  Tracey loved the book and seems to be throwing her hat into the cover art ring as well. A contest winner I am also remiss in joining in the applause for winner Reginald Golding over…

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Cover revisited: crowdsourcing a design

By Gene Doucette | May 4, 2011 |

Opinions vary All right, so following up on the cover proof posted earlier today, here are some thoughts: — the original cover IS lovely.  But it doesn’t “pop.”  What that means, according to @DavidRozansky (who you should all follow): “Try brighter colors, commuters in motion, speeding train coming towards viewer, vivid title font.  ‘Popping’ means…

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New cover draft: opinions needed

By Gene Doucette | May 3, 2011 |

A redesign A new cover of Immortal is in the works!  Why?  Because for whatever reason, interested persons– meaning distributors– have said the existing cover doesn’t “pop”.  What does this mean?  I have no idea.  But now we’re looking into a design that will be more eye-catching, and we need your help. Below is a draft…

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Hellenic Immortal preview

By Gene Doucette | May 2, 2011 |

A preview of things to come As promised, today I’m offering a short preview of Hellenic Immortal, the sequel to Immortal.  What you’re about to read is either the prologue or an interlude to the main story… I haven’t actually decided yet. (The problem is the book already has a prologue, and while “On Gods…

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Welcome to the end of the 2011 Immortal blog tour!

By Gene Doucette | May 1, 2011 |

So what is a blog tour, again? As I am known to do from time to time, in early March I was hanging out on Twitter and lamenting the difficulties I was having in promoting Immortal.  It’s not a simple thing, this self-promotion stuff.  Simple example: perhaps more than any other social network, Twitter is…

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Blog tour interview at Wired.com's GeekDad

By Gene Doucette | April 29, 2011 |

Adam interviews me Some sort of madness struck me when putting together this blog tour.  I offered all of the participants plenty of different angles to explore, including: interviewing me; interviewing Adam; interviewing me AND Adam; me interviewing Adam; Adam interviewing me.  Only one person took up the offer for Adam interviewing me, and thank…

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