Seth Harwood's Blog
August 24, 2009
I'm happy to present in its entirety a recording of a reading I did this summer at Mysteries To Die For, the wonderful independent mystery bookshop in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Listen To/Download the Reading here
Bigtime thanks to the staff and customers of Mysteries to Die For for having me visit, Joelle for coming along, and Aldo "Mystery Dawg" Calcagno for showing me the way(s) around and about L.A.
This photo is actually from my reading at Murder By The Book in Houston, another awesome bookseller I vi
August 20, 2009
More news this week from L.A's Ozzy Sheraton. This time it's Jack Palms that he's following. (Original post.)
Who does Jack Palms think he is, Sinatra or something?
Just weeks after announcing that he had secured private funding to produce "Shake It Up", the long-awaited sequel to his 1999 hit movie "Shake 'em Down", Palms has been dumped into a scandal that even this action hero might not be able to shake his way out of.
Former girlfriend and bartender Maxine Lopez dropped the big one on Palms, al
August 18, 2009
August 13, 2009
Ozzy Sheraton reports this covert sighting of myself and fellow novelist Scott Sigler partying last weekend at an undisclosed San Francisco night club with Lindsay Lohan. You can bet this was the V.I.P. section, baby! No word yet on which of us went home with her.
If only I could remember anything that happened after I got there...
August 11, 2009
That's right! I got in the hot tub! (Direct Link to Episode. Listen here.)
Today I'm talking about how the book publishing industry could go forward, how it is completely different from either music or newspapers and what top execs might do to get around a possible Amazon or Apple takeover of the industry by monopolzing sales.
Let's call this: The Future of Books
I also cover some of your comments, feedback, my vacation, books I'm reading, and what's coming this fall in the way of new fiction on th
August 9, 2009
August 7, 2009
In other news, I'm back from the farms of Western Mass (the Berkshires), rested, read-up, and not-quite ready for more action. But I'll cover that in the next Hot Tub Cast™. For now, let me catch you up on some cool news and coverage that surfaced while I was out of comish:
1) Paul Kilduff did a great interview piece with me in his column for THE EAST BAY MONTHLY here in Berkeley. Here's the August edition of the Kilduff file: "On-Demand Novelist"
2) Next we've got a cool interview posted by autho
Martyn Casserly, awesome all-around dude and podcast listener, just wrote this article which appeared online at WIRED.CO.UK. In it, he talks up Scott Sigler, Tee Morris, Mark Jeffrey, J.C. Hutchins and me, and how we've used podcasting our fiction as a great platform to use free to get our work out on the web.
Here's my quote:
"Nowadays publishers are looking for an author with an audience online," explains Harwood. "They want someone who knows how to market themselves and have built a platform of
