Certified Platinum

The Poacher's Son is going to be published in a large-print edition with a library binding by Center Point, a publisher of large-print books. By happy coincidence, Center Point is located just down the road from me in Thorndike, Maine. I'm extremely happy with the cover design Minotaur created for my novel, but I feel like the Center Point cover is equally strong. The large-print version, part of the Platinum Mysteries series, will be published on June 28.

I haven't heard yet whether there will be an iPad version of The Poacher's Son, but given that Macmillan is one of the publishing houses that entered into an agreement with Apple to provide titles for iBooks, I'm assuming that will be the case.

Hopeless Romantic

Another good review today for The Poacher's Son, this one from Romantic Times magazine:

Doiron’s impressive debut is told through the eyes of the suspect’s estranged son. This is a literate tale of revenge, love and loyalty that uses the mysterious Maine woods as both a motive for the crime and a knob for ratcheting up the suspense. Though the prose is sometimes flat-footed, there are plenty of twists and surprises to keep the reader guessing until the very end. ★★★★

Moose Rescue

In The Poacher's Son I try to depict some of the many strange jobs Maine game wardens are asked to perform during the course of their shifts. From today's Portland Press Herald comes this one:

Game wardens in Maine say a moose is back in the woods thanks to some human help it got after it broke through the ice on Moose Pond in the town of Bridgton.

Wardens say the bull moose was spotted about 1,000 feet from shore on Sunday after it had broken through the ice...

[They] were able to put a rope around the neck of the moose and break it a path through the ice to shore.

I could make any number of wisecracks about the moose being rescued from Moose Pond, but I'm not going to.

I'm Indie Bound!

When you have a new novel coming out, you never know what the day will bring. Today I received this extremely cool email:

A wonderful bouquet of nominations has been received for those titles that Indie booksellers will be happily handselling in May and beyond. I'm pleased to inform you that the following St. Martin's Minotaur title has been designated as an Indie Next List Notable for May, and will appear with jacket image and full bookseller quote in a downloadable PDF file to be posted on Bookweb.org.  The bookseller quotes for the Notables titles will also be available as downloadable shelftalkers on Bookweb.org.: THE POACHER'S SON: A Novel, Paul Doiron, 9780312558468, $24.99
Congratulations! 
Being chosen for the Indie Next List is an incredible honor since the selection depends on the recommendation of independent booksellers. Literally thousands of hardcover novels are published each month, and Indie Bound showcases only 20. (My Yale classmate and drinking buddy Chang-Rae Lee is on the current list for his novel, The Surrendered, which is racking up fantastic reviews.) To think my book was chosen for this list is utterly humbling. The full May Indie Next List is going to appear in the April 1st edition of Bookselling This Week.