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Special Release: Best of the Web 2008 -- Tattooed People

Special Delivery today comes in the form of "Tattooed People" from this year's Best of the Web anthology published by Dzanc Books. More info here.

This story was originally published by Storyglossia and can be read here.

Today, August 20th, is the overall web-push day for Best of the Web.
Happy BotW Day everybody!

Change of Venue

Uh oh...
This isn't the home of my blog anymore. Sorry. Now everything's consolidated at Seth Harwood.com
If you'd like the RSS feed for my new blog so you can subscribe, this is it:
http://sethharwood.com/rss.xml

Thanks for your support!

Best of the Web 2008 (Dzanc Books) - Avialable 7/15

Yo ho ho ho ho...
Yeah, that means I'm excited about something. Czech this out:

... and featuring... SETH HARWOOD

I've known for a while now that these guys selected "Tattooed People" for inclusion in this new "Best of" anthology that's just this year rolling out. And now, finally, I've come to find that the book should be hitting stores right around the corner and is already up at Amazon here for the low low price of $12 and change. Yes, if you want to buy one and send it to me, I'll be more than happy to sign it for you. Just follow the instructions on the signed copy page.

But I'm not just here to schill, I'm really excited about this release. It means that my work will be appearing in pages edited by Steve Almond, a really big dude in the short story literary scene and an awesome, hairy-chested Boston guy, as well as alongside the work of George Saunders, one of the short story all-times in my book (If you haven't read Pastoralia, you're really missing something.) and other writers whose names I haven't even been able to see yet (get my copy this week).

In any case, I'm excited and this is kind of a big deal around these parts. Hope you'll pick up a copy and/or show it to a friend if you're in a bookstore and point to my name in the contents and say, "I know this guy!"

More to come. Word? Say word.

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Time for a whole new world!!

The run over here at BLOGGER for my blog has been a blast, literally! I've been here for two years, almost, I've gotten to the point where I have three websites, really: a blog, a fan-site, and my main site, and now it is time to bring them all together. That's right, from now on sethharwood.com is the home for everything: all of the aforementioned services.
So please, head over there, subscribe to the blog and the podcasts, sign up, and visit often to be a part of the discussions, voting, and social interaction!

Serious: registering with the new site is the best way to be a Palms Daddy/Momma!

Your boy 4 eva!

SH

The Great Psychobilly Blog Road Trip of 2008: Day 5, Part 1

Oh man, after a night in the Hummer-sine, I could barely get out of bed this morning, much less post the post I was supposed to drop about our... ummm... time together.
So here it is, folks. And thanks to Neil for stopping by.

The rest of this post has been blogjacked by Anthony Neil Smith.

Last stop: Ray "The Saturday Boy" Banks

West Coast again, for two reasons. 1) So Greg Bardsley can get more folding money from his wife, and 2) to pick up rising crime writer and podcaster Seth Harwood, author of the JACK PALMS (all caps when you write the man's name) series, the first of which met the page with a Breakneck Books edition, only to get chosen for the major leagues with a jump to Three Rivers Press next year.

You feel it before you hear it: the deep bass thrumming of the hip-hop theme song from the new JP3 podcast. And you know you're there when you see the crowd, all the fans Seth has called down for his send off. The man's built a following, 'casting the good word of PALMS into the void and hearing adoration in return. He called out for them to support him on Palms Sunday, and they responded in droves. I've even been roped in, reading a "Story So Far" for JP2: THIS IS LIFE. It's fun stuff, full of a fresh new energy the private eye genre needs badly. It's a never-ending party over there, and you should take a listen. Seth's got mad skillz (man, is that, like, ten years out of date?) with words and knows how to keep your ear to the speaker. And make sure to check out this great short story, "Young Junius" at the Storyglossia Crime Issue. Congrats on all his success.

He descends the stairs to applause and cheers, all decked out in black leather and shades. I swear he's got a Glock tucked under his jacket, but I'm not going to mention it. It's already like an armory in the Hummer-sine. One more for the pile. Inside, he pops the cork on some champagne and we all share a toast to the Great Psychobilly Blog Road Trip of 2008. Man, that really hit the spot. Good breakfast. I'll take a another glass, please.

With the podcaster along for the ride, I'll hook you up with some excerpts from Yellow Medicine I posted on my site: HERE, HERE, and HERE. I hope that whets your appetite for more, and more you shall have if you take a moment this coming Monday, May 12 (Psychobilly Monday) to purchase Yellow Medicine through Barnes & Noble. We'll see if they invite us in for a beer or slap at us like a pesky mosquito. Now, if you happen to be around Minneapolis, Madison, or Milwaukee this coming week, forget B&N and come down to see me at Once Upon a Crime, Booked for Murder, or Mystery One. I'll be dropping by some Barnes & Nobles and Borders stores, too, so that Upper Midwest corridor will be flush with signed copies.

Seth's snapping cell phone pictures of the crazy party we've got going on in the back while I reach for the volume knob and step on the gas. Where to next? To answer the S.O.S. from The Jordans at Crimespree Magazine: "Need More Road Trip!" And so we oblige.

Driving time: Three light years (and a parsec)
Tune for the leg: "Drunk Fuck Fight" by The Formaldebrides

Storyglossia Crime Issue Rocks! (Now with more Harwood!)

Today's the launch of our favorite online journal's new issue: Storyglossia #28, the All-Crime issue is out NOW. Edited by Anthony Neil Smith of Plots With Guns and the CrimeDog One Blog (also an old friend from JP2), this issue provides hot (and I mean HOT) stories from Vicki Hendricks, Megan Abbott, Ray Banks, and a little story I like to call "Young Junius." Fans of JACK WAKES UP and Junius Ponds, you've GOT to check this story out!

I'm also happy to add that "Young Junius" has also been released as a podcast by Rick Stringer and the Variant Frequencies team. If you haven't heard of the Stringers (Rick and Anne) and Matt Wallace, you will, soon. I promise.