Seth Harwood's Blog, page 24
July 21, 2010
CrimeWAV bonus content!
Been too long since I've posted any sound content to come at you in the head piece, so I'm turning over a CrimeWAV leaf for you guys today.
Hear me talk about the deadline coming for your Young Junius Special Edition purchase [it's July 31st!!!:] and Part 1 of Jason Duke's awesome novella Phoenix Nightlife!
This one's gonna knock your hat off!
Click here to download/listen to Part 1 of Phoenix Nightlife by Jason Duke
Sgt. Jason Duke
July 13, 2010
Mikael Blomkvist is my homeboy!
More Action than JacksonThat's right, say it, accept it, believe it. Everyone you know is reading the Steig Larsson "Girl Who..." novels this year. Yes, they're crime/mystery; yes, they're good; yes, they're filled with hilarious street and town names and characters who fell out of the consonant factory too early.
Anyway, I'm here to say it up front: Mikael Blomkvist is a bronze god of writer-mojo idealism! And, he's definitely my homie. I'm making a bracelet that says WWBD (What Would...
July 9, 2010
NEWS: ABC class online and YJ Special Edition Cutoff
I'm back with two pieces of news:
1) the Young Junius Special Edition pre-orders will come to an end on July 31st. Order now or forever be left out in the cold. When 7/31 comes there are no more orders!
2) The Author Boot Camp class is finally coming to a fully-online format. Starting 7/22, I'll be running the first 4-week class on Podcasting to Platform. More info is here as well as this free 30-min webinar on the course content. Give it a watch! FREE!
Much more info on the class is here.
Otherw...
June 30, 2010
I am BACK!
Strictly Business AttireYes, I'm back from a wonderful trip abroad to Tanzania! It was awesome!
What am I up to now? Working on Young Junius and Jack Palms II, of course!
And more...
Stay tuned for further info and trip re-cap coming soon.
June 23, 2010
Online Webinar on Podcasting -- Tomorrow!!
For those of you who've been looking for an online class on how to use
podcasting and free serialized audiobooks to create or increase your online
presence and fanbase, tomorrow's webinar is the first step in my partnership
with Writer's Digest to make this course material and content available.
I hope you'll join me for this live 75-minute webinar that goes over
everything you need to know to get your feet in the water and start building
your content and fan platform!
Here's the link to more info:
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May 26, 2010
Hot Tub Cast™ for 5-24 Eeeeeyyee.. Pobrecito!
Omar SuarezYou wanna be a big man, eh? Make big bucks?
Well, you can't knock the hustle.
In this hot tub cast (click here to listen), I'll talk about the YJ special edition preorder launch, including numbers, and all about the revision/edits I've been doing on Young Junius. Got some big stats to share with you. Hope you're excited to hear 'em! I'll also be talking about my upcoming trip away from the mic, the desk, and out of the country to visit lovely Tanzania! Yep. Listen here!
Did not...
Newspaper Coverage in SF Chronicle!
In the old days - which, in this case, you might define as "two years ago" - getting your book published would entail finding an agent, sending it off to publishing houses like Random House or, when that failed, paying a vanity press to put the thing in print.
All of that has changed, thanks to radical shifts in the publishing industry and, oh yeah, the Internet.
Here are some examples of how a few Bay Area authors recently got into print:
Berkeley author Seth Harwood, who teaches writing and...
May 17, 2010
CrimeWAV 57: Every Dog by Richard Katz
Time for "Every Dog" by MY BOY Rich Katz (aka Rafael--look for his name in Young Junius this fall). Rich has been a long time Palms Daddy, CrimeWAV fan and has recently started working his tail off on good crime short stories!
Listen to Every Dog here. (Click to listen.)
Rich took my online Crime Fiction class at Stanford last winter and did some awesome work! Check his last story, Ep 37's The Oath for hard proof. If you'd like to take a crime fiction class with me and live in the Bay Area...
May 12, 2010
Hot Tub Cast™: Interview with PG Holyfield!
Click here now to listen to this episode!
This is the interview special featuring none other than the man of the hour, PG Holyfield! Not only is Murder at Avedon Hill a perrenial podcast fiction favorite, but now it's coming to print Saturday!!
Be there with PG Thursday night for a hot Podioracket interview at 9PM EST (the awesome Rhonda Carpenter included) and then hit the buy button at Amazon.com this Saturday at noon EST as MaAH makes its rush up the charts!
