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July 12, 2009
Bodies in the Library - Litquake Mystery Fundraiser this Thursday!
Litquake's First Mystery Fundraiser
Thursday July 16, 2009 6-8 pm
Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post St.
San Francisco, California
Come and enjoy this intimate evening with us.
I hope to see you this Thursday night as I'll be appearing at this event to sign, talk about the book and participate in a few panels. It'll be a great, fun party event where they'll be auctioning off a signed copy of JWU AND a free one-hour session of one-on-one talk with me about social networking, new medi
July 7, 2009
Seth Harwood's Celebrity Hot Tub Cast™ - 01
[image error]With respect to Eddie Murphy and the late, great James Brown, I happily bring you my first Hot Tub Cast™.
That's right: who else could you count on to go where no podcast has gone before, to break new ground in robe-wearing and coolness of the podcast industry? That's me. It's your boy. I can read the tea leaves with the best of them and my current tea leaves say: chill out! Take a kick back in this afternoon and see the view from your hot tub! (That's right, I sheepishly
July 6, 2009
Gerald So review
Gerald So, fiction editor for the ever-awesome Thrilling Detective Website, reviews JACK WAKES UP on his blog here and has this to say:
If you remember the B action flicks of the 90s as fondly as I do, you'll appreciate Jack Wakes Up. The book's third-person present narration brings a movie to mind and, along with short, punchy chapters, keeps the plot moving. Though Jack Wakes Up may be a homage to action movies, Harwood's careful characterization and overall energy made Jack and his world seem
July 2, 2009
James Melzer Interview: The Podcast to F*&k Up Your Sh%t!
Direct link to the audio of my interview with James.
Direct link to UNLEASHED: The Podcast to F*&k Up Your Sh%t! - 02
That's right, our boy James Melzer sits down to talk with me about JACK WAKES UP, where I sit in terms of publishing, numbers, and the ongoing saga that is The Quest to Publish JP2™.
Visit his website here to find out more about his podcast novel trilogy The Zombie Chronicles and Escape, the first book, which is already a complete podcast novel that has been sold to Permuted Press.
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June 30, 2009
LIVE from HOUSTON!! (6/27)
Crew at Two Bars
Direct link to audio of Houston -Murder by the Book Reading
NOW I'm ready to proclaim myself the hardest working man in showbiz! Forget about James Brown, God rest his soul, after this weekend's 4 readings in 4 nights in 4 cities over 3 states and covering over 4,100 miles, I'm ready to challange any other first-book author to bring his/her own goods and go head-to-head with a schedule like that! Damn right!
For the record, I did Phoenix/Scottsdale-Poisoned Pen- on Thursday, Tucson
June 23, 2009
Going BACK to work! (Already!?!) Hub Heartbreak!
Know what? You're right. It's crazy to get right back to another book. But if it's what needs to happen to keep selling copies of JACK WAKES UP, then that's what I'm gonna do! You know I've got a few things stashed away, The Genius School book and also... a little something that I like to call HUB HEARTBREAK!
It's coming. That's the big news. I started preparing for the launch today by readying the manuscript for my read. I started getting things together to rip this baby out so I have all the f
Fall Writers Digest Conference: The Business of Getting Published!
I'm proud to be speaking this fall at a conference put on by Writer's Digest magazine, called "The Business of Getting Published." Sigler and I will be teamed up to talk about how we've dropped ourselves on NY publishing whether they liked it or not!
They've given me a discount code to hand out. If you're interested in coming to the conference, get $50 off your registration by entering the code: S7Har
The Business of Getting Published is designed to guide any author through the new dynamics of tod
June 20, 2009
Brilliant Slackers Book Club Picks JACK WAKES UP!
Very cool! For July Brilliant Slackers Blog chose JACK WAKES UP to be it's book choice! Hooray for Brilliant Slackers Blog!
JACK WAKES UP makes IMBA Bestseller!!!
[image error]JACK WAKES UP just made the Bestseller List for the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA)!
I came in at #9 softcover for MAY. Link here.
June 18, 2009
You can't HANDLE the truth!!
You want answers?
You sure you want the answers?
You want the truth, huh? Well you can't handle the truth!
Or maybe you can. In any case, I present to you here, in all podcast loving kindness, the basic deets, facts and unbridaled truth about the JACK WAKES UP sales numbers so far. I'm banging the drum, you're working to sell copies of the book and--know what?--WE ARE DOING just fine! And we will do fine. We'll keep it up, keep banging that drum, spreading the JACK PALMS Gospel, and the copies will
