Coming soon to the CrimeWAV Player, I'm happy to announce we'll have a full podcast novel: The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins! He's MY boy!

For today satisfy yourself with the melodious tones of Dan O'Shea and his story "Thin Mints!

Bonus: want to get started on Mark's work ahead of schedule? His first podcast novel Vulture Capital is already out! Find it here!

Also, John Dodds's new podcast novel Bone Machines is FREE, badass, and fully ready for you to download here! Aside from being a full-blown thug, you might know John Dodds from back in CrimeWAV episode 35: "Crossing the Border". His blog and stuff is here: http://bonemachines.wordpress.com/

Now... you listen to podcasts, right? You know Keith Malley from the Keith and the Girl? Yes, I thought you did. Well, now you can get his NOVEL, titled "The Great American Novel" (of course) from the KatG site. If you use the code "seth" when you do, you'll get $2 off the book! Go ahead, when you pick yours up, drop the code for your boy! Heard? Now do it!

That's right: you can holla at your boys and girls over at Tyrus Books on their website and pick out any books there you like, including YOUNG JUNIUS, then get 10% off the cover price by using the code "PALMSFAMILY."

Go on, use the code!

Pick up new copies of Innocent Monster by the awesome Reed Farrel Coleman, Stein, Stoned by Hal Ackerman, The Complete Amos Walker Stories by Loren Estleman or the crazy Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi. You know you want to! Whenever you buy books from Tyrus using the code "PALMSFAMILY" not only will you get 10% off, but another 10% of the book cover price comes back to me. Help support a great independent press, grow your library and help to keep this website and podcasts running in the pink.

Tell 'em your boy sent ya!

Look here just to the right and you'll see the new Fan Pics Rotator for YOUR pics of you and your copies of YOUNG JUNIUS. Have a copy and haven't sent in your pic yet? Hit me with it!

Wishing you all the best for a most happy, healthy and safe holiday season from yer boy and all of us at SethHarwood.com!!

First George Pelecanos, awesome novelist and writer for THE WIRE, picked YOUNG JUNIUS as one of his Best Books for 2010! Hazzah and hot damn! I met George at Noircon and gave him a copy of the book. Barely hoped he'd read it. Now this? Yeah, I'm psyched!!

How about this quote:

"Man-child Junius, 14, is in search of his brother's murderer which takes him on an odyssey through the projects of Cambridge, Mass. The plot moves but you will be most taken by the complexity of the large cast of characters. Harwood does not revert to type."

Yeah, definitely BLURB worthy!

On another note, thanks to Crimespree Magazine and awesome Jon Jordan for reviewing YOUNG JUNIUS. "Required Reading." Here's the full:

YOUNG JUNIUS (Tyrus) is an urban western by Seth Harwood. Junius is a 14 year old on his own quest for vengeance and redemption. What looks from the outset to be a simple matter of track and shoot soon spirals out of control. With police and rival gangs out to get him Junius decides to stand instead of run and when all is said and done, his life is much different than when he started this path. Harwood has really captured the angst of a young man confused by what the world tells him and what the world is. Required reading. –Crimespree Magazine

First off, I should mention that you can BUY Young Junius on your Kindle for the low price of $4.99 for a limited time. Go on, see how it looks! You can also try a sample from Amazon (see right side).

BUT, you can also join over 50,000 others and download the YOUNG JUNIUS full PDF for free right here! From there, I'm happy to include the following instructions on how to convert it for best reading on your Kindle.

[Note: this advice comes from the awesome Jason Mastaler who attended a talk I gave at Harvard a few weeks back. Thanks Jason!]

Once you have the Young Junius PDF, follow these instructions to get it onto your Kindle. (more after the break -- read more...)