Happy New Year!!Nothing but the chrome in 2009, people! That's right: we here, we ready and we starting the countdown to Cinco de Harwood on 5/5/09.

OK, maybe I'm a bit early in that talk, but you know I've been waiting a long time for this.

For now, tide yourself over with Young Junius - 17, the ruckus and the rumble. You want more? How about 

Sigler/Harwood Pubcrawl #18 - Saturday Jan. 10th - Phoenix Bar after Scott's reading at Borderlands Books in the Mission. Reading starts at 3PM. Be there to buy Contagious and get it signed! Just don't come into direct contact with Scott's evil skin.

Want Missions? Vlade's working on that and we'll have them for you soon. Check back this week for the new Missions page, coming very soon.

Want movie recs? Watch the heck outa Shaft. If you haven't seen it already, shame on you. Like the man says, "Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt. If you want to see Shaft, ask your momma!" He's Shaft! See the trailer here.

Otherwise, go watch every episode of The Wire. Both are available from Netflix. Sign up here.

That's it. Big 09 for us. Thanks for all your love and support in 08! --yer boy.

 

Time for some much-needed rest. I'm not blogging much these days, but that bastard Akakievich is. Check him out at Akakievich.com. It's actually kind of funny.

You ready to buy your copy(ies) of CONTAGIOUS?

Direct link to episode 16. (Click to listen. Right-click to download.)

Pre-holidays everybody! Chanukah starts tonight (12/21), XMas on the way, I'm taking a break for a week to go visit the Gannons down in Florida, and everyone's happy, right?

You can check out Jeremy Robinson's Kronos here.

Vlade stops by to tell you about his next mission, which happens to be a contest. I'm busted up about the end of 2008, a big year for me, but I try and keep a cap on that. I give you 33 minutes of real-time story to bust up in your ear-piece, and what more could you ask for on your pre-XMas commute or fly-time listening space? Another CrimeWAV story? yeah, I'll have that for you this week! Scott Sigler's next book Contagious is coming out December 30th! I'll even be at his SF reading on 1/10 to celebrate, buy that sh*t, and drink a few beers after. Pub crawl? Yep.

Vlade says don't, but I say it's ok to visit Akakievich.com. Just because it LOOKS GOOD! And join the ACR? Hells YES!

For Netflix.com this week: sign up, enjoy a free movie with your family, or start watching Dexter. If you haven't, you better!

I'm tired, people! I'm tired I tells ya! Too much chit-chatting at the holiday parties, too much of the this and that, the yadda yee yadda, and not enough time spent sitting in my recording room talking to you guys! Yes, not enough of that and not enough of the work on Young Junius the manuscript. Times is catching up to me and that means--yes, it's the perfect time for this glorious semester to come to an end. So, happily it does. And then I go back to writing. Good.

I know I forgot something this week, but what can you do?

Direct link to episode 15 (right-click to download). You know, you just click to listen. But why not subscribe on iTunes?

Join the ACR. How? Let Vlade tell you. Latest mission: Invite a friend! Do not visit Akakievich.com

SSF this week by Mike Farley. Check him out at mtfarley.com

This week's movie choice? It's the Hebrew Hammer, son! Circa 2003.

That's right: this is us! Will you join the legion of us painting our faces and stomping through the woods toward Palms Sunday and Cinco de Harwood? Will you learn Czech Karate, medicine, helicopter and fighter jet flying, and how to swim underwater in full clothing while carrying a gun? Will YOU stand behind Vlade, Niki and myself as we pop out of the water guns a-blazin' to shoot copies of JACK WAKES UP onto the literary seashores of American bookstores? (That's the shelves, I guess.) And help JACK WAKES UP climb up and dominate the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list? Join us: Armáda České republiky!

Hear the promo! Play the promo anywhere you can to join the Armada!

We're baaaack... Sorry about the two-week hiatus, but the real Palms Family came into town and we had to celebrate it up Harwood-style for the big TG. You can imagine how off-the-hook that was!

I got some wicked awesome content for you this week, seventy-nine minutes of content, and the hottest new group to come out of the Czech Republic since... well, since "Vibes" for example. You're gonna want to listen to the after-talk to get in on this one. I'm also yapping about my classes for the spring term--both in crime--that you can find out more about at sethharwood.com/classes. Czech them out. Link to Stanford Online Crime Fiction Course.

 

Pic of Vlade from 19 years agoAlso: Vlade comes on to talk to you about the Armáda České Republiky (ACR) and if you don't hop in on this one you're definitely gonna feel left out in the dust. 

 

 

Thanks to Randy Hinckley and Brian Kurzweil for their help on this episode. Also to Officer Gary "Raisin Head" Johnson.

Oh yeah, and that movie for Netflix? It's Super Fly. Rock it! You got a GREAT two hours in store.

Follow the Charter Members of the Armada on Twitter: @VladeKladivo, @NikiVojacek, @JaneGannon, @Akakievich, @Junius_Ponds, @AlVrazda, @FreemanJones, @JoeBuddha and @SethHarwood

And don't forget @Akakievich, or @AlVrazda OR @JuniusPonds!!!

And a new, hot bonus track for you!!

11-19: No time for writing new YJ today. Here's why: I got my copy-edited manuscript

Jack Wakes Up: A Novel by Seth Harwood
Direct Amazon LINK!!

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Coming out on May 5, 2009, THIS is THE book. This is THE year. JACK PALMS, baby!
Catch it!

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