Gene has created a fun series that doesn't take itself too serious but isn't a joke either. This volume has a gangster story, some 19th century intrigue, a descent into madness and even a story with Santa. They're quirky stories around different eras of history and different types of adventure. Don't expect some trite hanging out with the movers and shakers of history in these stories, nope, our hero is the guy hiding in the shadows, trying to stay out of the wars and major limelight which might result in him either dying, suffering or not being able to find a drink. He's at least 60,000 years old and has been everywhere for everything. He's an immortal and has been around since the beginning (as he puts it). This is a collection of stories about Adam - no not THAT Adam, well maybe- who knows because this Adam (or so he calls himself currently) is the oldest man alive. He is currently at work on a large science fiction world-building project taking place on his Patreon site, the result of which will be a multi-novel series. His most recent self-published novel is Immortal: Last Call (2020).

Gene plans to continue writing novels for both markets (traditional and self-published) as long as that continues to make sense.

Gene published two more novels-Immortal From Hell at the end of 2018, and Fixer Redux in 2019-and wrote a new novel called The Apocalypse Seven that he did not self-publish it was acquired by JJA/HMH in September of 2019. Since then, a number of things have happened. The reprint was published in September of that year, at which point Gene was once again a hybrid author.

In 2018, John Joseph Adams Books (an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) acquired the rights to The Spaceship Next Door. So well, that in 2016, Gene reacquired the rights to the earlier four novels from the publisher, and re-released them, at which point he wasn’t a hybrid any longer.Īdditional self-published novels followed: Immortal and the Island of Impossible Things (2016) Unfiction (2017) and The Frequency of Aliens (2017). When the novellas proved more lucrative than the novels, Gene tried self-publishing a full novel, The Spaceship Next Door, in 2015. Then, in 2014, Gene started self-publishing novellas that were set in the same universe as the Immortal series, at which point he was a hybrid. From 2010 through 2014, Gene published four full-length novels (Immortal, Hellenic Immortal, Fixer, and Immortal at the Edge of the World) with a small indie publisher. Gene Doucette is a hybrid author, albeit in a somewhat roundabout way.

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