Posts Tagged ‘TWCS’
Austin 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…
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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…
Read MoreTexas Book Festival– Press Release
Austin is coming up As I mentioned last week, I’ll be attending the Texas Book Festival at the end of October. Specifically– if you’re looking for me, I’ll be arriving Friday afternoon 10/26 and leaving Monday morning 10/29. The festival itself is 10/27 – 10/28. Below is a press release link from The Writer’s Coffee Shop with…
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Austin! I’m finalizing plans right now to appear at the Texas Book Festival in Austin on October 27 and 28. I’ll be there to sign copies of Immortal and Hellenic Immortal, meet a bunch of people from the publishing house I am currently only acquainted with via email, and probably to drink too much. Oh and also to see what…
Read MoreSales press release
New press release out this morning Here’s a headline I never expected to see: Fantasy novel, “Immortal” by Gene Doucette, Outranks the Erotic Romance Phenomenon “Fifty Shades of Grey” on Amazon Kindle So in case you were wondering, it’s been a good couple of months.
Read MoreFixer Press Release
Fixer under contract Last week I inked a deal with The Writer’s Coffee Shop to publish Fixer in 2013. You can read about it in the press release TWCS released this morning. Please share! The Writer’s Coffee Shop Signs Contract With Author Gene Doucette For His New Novel “Fixer”
Read MoreHellenic on television
Good Morning Texas The Writer’s Coffee Shop is on the road and promoting, even when I’m sitting here talking to you folks. Below is a link to a clip from Good Morning Texas featuring an interview with Amanda Hayward and Jenny Pedroza from TWCS. (I tried embedding footage, but it doesn’t seem to want to give me a…
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