Boston Globe and NY Times Book Review write up JACK
That’s right, JACK WAKES UP, which came out on Tuesday and is available here: sethharwood.com is included in this Sunday’s NYTBR Crime write-up by Marilyn Stasio:
“…the storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion, giving us hope for the future of all those bad girls with dirty faces and bad boys on bikes.” Read more…
Also out this weekend is the Boston Globe’s report on my interesting and unique path to finding publication with Three Rivers Press, titled, “Solving Mystery of Finding Readers” Read more…
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 North 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. Read more…
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