Seth

Yes, the wonderful women of the Jungle Red Writers Blog, especially my long-time news hero Hank Phillippi Ryan from Boston, introduced their readers to "The Harwood Method" on Friday. I had a complete blast doing this interview with Hank after I got to meet her during my Boston reading swing through Newtonville Books. What a night!

As they say at Jungle Red, "Writing Well Is the Best Revenge!"

Many thanks to Rosemary Harris, Hallie Ephron, Rhys Bowen, Jan Brogan, Roberta Isleib, and Hank Phillippi Ryan for letting me stop by!

Hank and I talked about podcasting, JACK PALMS, Author Boot Camp, Boston Sports, how I landed with Three Rivers Press, and much more.

"You should have heard Seth Harwood at Newtonville Books (my local bookstore) when he started reading out loud from JACK WAKES UP. The roomful of people was silent. Listening. Riveted. It was so--cinematic--it was like watching a film.

"Turns out, Seth is all about how his books sound. Out loud. And is making a national name for himself not only for his incredibly well-received first novel, JACK WAKES UP, but for his innovative and wildly successful methods of promotion.

"Here's the scoop."

Read entire interview here...

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 visited this summer. Thanks to Shirley Bruce for taking the pic!

Lately I've been the recipient of some awesome reviews and blog entries on the web. So I want to take a minute to shout out these sites:

First up is this HOT OFF THE EARPHONE-PRESSES interview that P.G. Holyfield just *finally* dropped. Sure, we recorded it way back in July, but who's counting? Listen up, pilgrim.

Danny Machal's Blog: DannyMachal.com Up and coming podcast author gives super review!

AP Stephens throws it down at APStephens.com! He's hollering about the free PDF of JACK WAKES UP!

Andrew Jack, another up and comer, drops this review at AndrewJackWriting.com

I felt the love on the Dead Robots Society Podcast with P.G. Holyfield, Justin Macumber, Ryan Stevenson, and Terry Mixon. Thanks to them for having me on to do a super cool interview! Listen here.

AND

Donnie Light talks it up in "21st Century Farmer's Market"

Finally... more Hot Tub to come... soon.

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 this site.

I talk about Tyler Dilts' excellent book A King of Infinite Space the next new crime novel podcast.

Promos: Inherited Danger by Brian Rathbone and Serving Worlds by John Mireau

See you soon!

Martyn Casserly, awesome all-around dude and podcast listener, just wrote this article: "Novels by Podcast: how to make money from 'free'" 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 people willing to listen. The fact is big publishing doesn't have a lot of money to spend on marketing or promotion, so they're now looking to authors to do almost all of that themselves. Sigler, Hutchins and myself are basically the front-line researchers for what works in online advertising for books. We are scientists, the canaries in the caves, the ones who are trying things."

read the whole article...