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Bitterest Palms: Seth Harwood meets Dan Klass

Seth and NigelActual fortune cookie I once got: "Constant Grinding Can Turn the Iron Rod into a Needle."

So I'm taking my rod away from the grinder for a while and, even though I know you're eager to get YJ-30, which is coming!, I'm passing along this funny interview I did with Dan Klass on Sunday in LA.

So, here I am with my man Danny K (direct link), under the flightpath at LAX, with Hudson and the puppet force of Animal Rescue Friends. We chat about about Hill Street Blues, LA Festival of

LA Times Festival of Books

Just great to get away for a few days and have great times at the LA Times Festival of Books, an extremely impressive event of readers, writers, booksellers, you name it! Just like a huge carnival of books! A state fair of books? So much more detail is here, here: and
here.

Or, to cut to the chase, thanks to Mark Coggins for: "After leaving the UCLA campus, I joined podcaster-novelist Seth Hardwood (Jack Wakes Up) and some friends for a post-festival drink (or two) at a nearby hote

The Good/The Bad

Good news is, I'm off to LA today for the LA Times Book Festival! Woot! Bad news is, I didn't get to record the final episode of YJ before I left. So that means 1) I will have something special (promise you will like it) on Sunday and the final episode of YJ will be out Tuesday, so we can mark the end of it with a combined celebration of the one-week-to-go point for the JACK WAKES UP release. I'll probably have at least 10,000 words to say about how excited that makes me!

So... please bear with

New Video: JACK WAKES UP Book Release 2.0!!

Or, as Dan Colman called it over at his Open Culture blog, "Web 2.0 to Book Deal in 3 Minutes." Love that title.  [** Can I also mention that we're under two weeks now!!**:]

This is my new video explaining how I make my podcasts and have used them to create an audience, raise my author profile, and get my book published (twice!) You can see it directly on YouTube here. As well as leave comments, find the embed code for your own blog, rate it, and whatever else you can imagine. Help

Young Junius - 29 -- A Dead Man Couldn't Hurt Like This

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(Click to listen/Right-click to download.)

Some more new changes to the site here. More thanks to Jason Andrews and this time even a little for Scott Sigler, the FDO himself. 

Vlade Section

Yes, it is I, Vlade. I have taken over a part of this podcast and also this space on the blog to give you two links: first is to sethharwood.com/tour, just like Vlade tell you. Second is to sethharwood.com/signedcopies  You use these links. Do

JACK WAKES UP slated for NYTBR on Sunday May 10th!!

This is a little piece I like to call JWU-NYTBR. And that's right!! That's the news for today, peeps! I'm very excited about it, couldn't be more juked and feel no guilt because I completed the first draft of YOUNG JUNIUS yesterday to the tune of 136,000 words. But that's not what you care about. You care about me getting it done because now there are two more eps to go, the book will end and you'll get the final finale that you've all been waiting for! Love it!

Oh yeah, guess I should spell it

JACK WAKES UP postcard with reading dates is HERE!

This is the Three Rivers Press promo postcard for the JWU release! Let me know if you'd like hard copies to hand out to your friends, leave at your local bookstore/coffee shop, whatever! I'm more than happy to provide! I hope to see many of you at these events and that you'll see fit to pass this link around the web! Thanks! Right-click here to download PDF.

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YOUNG JUNIUS - Episode 28 (No, really 28!!)

eggYes indeed! Here we are! Back again to the lab, from the lab, and into your ear-buds!

Direct link to episode 28.

This weekend I've been working my booty off on a new video about JWU and what I do here to make the podcasts. It'll be coming soon. Drop a line if you want to help. Thanks already to Michael Bekemeyer for the assist and to Gary Johnson for the editing help!

Couple of cool things on the site this week include: a European Fans forum, a new video of me getting the REAL Jack Wakes U

The Real

The real print edition - final copy, the exact one to be in stores on 5/5 - showed up today at the house. And it SMELLS good!!

YOUNG JUNIUS - Episode 27 - PALMS SUNDAY SPECIAL!!

That's right, everybody: feast your eyes on the new website design!! Thanks so much to Jason Andrews for his wonderful work!! Props due to Pulsar as well. My boys, THANK YOU!!

This is the direct line to Young Junius - episode 27.

Do you realize I've never gotten to an episode 27 before? Or that this MS tops 125,000 words now in its rough draft? The original rough draft of JWU was about 65,000 words. What a difference!! Today is Palms Sunday!! One year after you guys helped me rock Amazon with