Boston Globe: Solving Mystery of Finding Readers
Yes! Yes! YES!! (Audio News Download attached.)
Right on the heels of the NY Times Book Review piece, here comes the Boston Globe with a full-page article in the Arts section on my long, interesting, original road to major publication.
Here's the link to the full article. Please drop a comment to represent!
Once, Seth Harwood intended to get his novel published the old-fashioned way: Get the pedigree, write the manuscript, nab the agent, win the big contract. But when the Newton South graduate couldn't attract an agent for his crime thriller, he decided to do something radical: Get an audience first - by reading his book aloud, episode by episode, online.
In short, he entered the nascent world of book podcasting, and it worked. So far, 40,000 listeners have downloaded Harwood's weekly podcasts of "Jack Wakes Up," his debut crime novel - and a year ago 500 of them "stormed Amazon," as Harwood puts it, to buy copies of the book online when it was released by a small New Hampshire press.
That was enough to make the book the top-selling crime novel of the day and get the attention of an agent and a publisher, at last. This week the book was rereleased - with a bona fide marketing campaign - by Three Rivers Press, a paperback imprint of Random House.
- Seth's blog
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