I am more than pleased to present to you the first few chapters of JP O'Donnell's Fatal Gamble this week for your ears. This is part of us getting into the mode of showing you more crime NOVELS that you can listen to free out here in El Podosphere. Fatal Gamble is available in full form at Podiobooks.com. Check it out here!

Coming soon, we'll have more books to let you hear in their entirety. We're even working toward an upcoming companion site: CrimeWAVBooks! Definite hotness!

Joseph P. O’Donnell is a fellow Beantown Boy. In addition to being an Associate Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, O’Donnell is also the author of two mystery novels, Fatal Gamble and the sequel, Deadly Codes.  Both books have been awarded “Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice” and are available at Amazon.com.  Deadly Codes will begin its serialization as a free audiobook immenintly. To find Deadly Codes and for more information about JP O’Donnell, please visit his website www.jpodonnell.com.

This week's story is Robert Ward's "Out on Joppa." Click here to listen or download. Enjoy!

Robert Ward is the LA-based author of 8 novels, including Four Kinds of Rain, Red Baker and Shedding Skin. He has written on the staff of Hill Street Blues and co-executive produced Miami Vice. Word to that!

Can you get cooler than working with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas? No. I didn't think so.

More info on Robert Ward is here: Robert-Ward.com

"Out on Joppa" originally appeared in text form over at our pal-site, Darkest Before the Dawn, here.

On our end, the big news is that my novel, YOUNG JUNIUS, now available as a free podcast here, will be released this coming fall by Tyrus Books! Yeah, how cool is that?

If you want to hear a musical mix of the first chapter, check this out!

Art by Bob OstromJust a quick pod-drop to bring you up to date on some hot, new information that will change some things and bring a LOT of real excitement to these parts! Also enabling some awesome new partnerships that'll add fresh voices, new content and more greatness to CrimeWAV!

Hope you enjoy! Listen here to get it all spelled out in the first 5 minutes!

I'm here today wtih Special Guest, Alison Janssen of Tyrus Books to explain:

• How I'm resurrecting Palms Sunday 2010! (March 28th)
• What my next published book will be

and

• How YOU can get your hands on the book asap in a special limited, collector's edition as well as make publishing history by helping Tyrus and me pioneer a new model of book-release that (as far as we know*) only Scott Sigler has done so far!

If you can't wait to hear the news, click here to get it all after the break.

Check out CrimeWAV 47: "Nilsa" by Seth Harwood

It's the CrimeWAV, boys and girls. I'm back again this week with another story from my collection A Long Way from Disney available now on Kindle format for your Kindle, PC or iPhone/iPod. This one's called Nilsa.

It's a bit of a break from the crime and noir that we usually feature, but hopefully it'll still be a piece you enjoy. And don't worry, next week we'll be back with more of the Crime!

Promos this week are for Steve Saylor's short stories "The Caffeine Collection" and for our great friend and crime writer Diana Orgain for the new podcast edition of her novel Bundle of Trouble, which is also available now at Amazon!

Also, in the name of folks who've done cool stuff on Kindle, check out Boyd Morrison and John Rector.

Direct link to episode 46: Fisher Cat!

It's yer boy here, Seth Harwood to release a special edition of my short stories on the Kindle format over at Amazon. If you have one of these little puppies, an iPhone/iPod Touch, or ANY PC computer, help me out by getting on this release for $.99. We rock this Kindle chart today to see what waves and ripples I can make in new media publishing!

Direct link to ALWFD on Amazon. Direct link to more info at sethharwood.com/kindle

Seth Harwood is the award-winning author of Jack Wakes Up and now the collection of literary short stories A Long Way from Disney. You better believe he's your boy!

Thanks for all your love and support! -- SH

<<Click here to download and listen to episode 45>>

This week we're happy to have Kieran Shea on the show to read us his story "The Lifeguard Method." Enjoy it as he brings us a taste of the other Jersey Shore, a la Atlantic City. 

Ne'er-do-well investigator Charlie Byrne has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and is currently slugging it out in a novel in rewrite.  Kieran's other short fiction has appeared in Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Dogmatika, A-Twist-of-Noir, Pulp Pusher and others.  He also has a frightening piece upcoming in the third installment of the Thuglit anthology series from Kensington Books.  He divides his time between Annapolis, Maryland and Ocean City, New Jersey.  Visit him at http://kieranjamesshea.blogspot.com/  

I'm also excited to announce a new venture in online publishing coming up later in the week: my first collection of stories, A Long Way from Disney, is coming to the Amazon Kindle store and next Sunday, 12/27 is The Buy Date for the book. So get info here, tell your friends, spread the word, and I'll be back next week with one of my own stories, Fisher Cat. Your boy, Seth

SamplerGet your hands on this free sample of 12 Great Books!

I'm really happy to be a part of this great promotion of holiday gift-giving. This is a stellar lineup of your favorite (and some of the web's biggest) authors! What if the bookstore could come to you?

That’s the idea behind this In the Nick of Time! holiday sampler PDF. Inside are excerpts from a dozen new novels and nonfiction books by these New York Times bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, and wickedly talented storytellers:

Seth Godin - Tribes / Linchpin

Laurell K. Hamilton - Divine Misdemeanors

Joseph Finder - Vanished

Cory Doctorow - Makers

Chris Brogan & Julien Smith - Trust Agents

Robert J. Sawyer - Wake

Mitch Joel - Six Pixels of Separation

Cherie Priest - Boneshaker

Sott Sigler - The Rookie

Tara Hunt - The Whuffle Factor 

AND J.C. Hutchins - 7th Son: Descent!

What a lineup!

Seriously, and this is cool for you too: you get to check out (and spread) samples of these 12 great books (fiction and non) from some of your favorite, and the web's biggest, authors! So do what you can: link to this sampler, tell your friends about it, get this PDF onto as many people's screens as possible! This one helps us all and offers a great gift for folks just in time.

Of course, the ever-savvy JC Hutchins himself who put this all together. Hats off to him, and big thanks for including me.

Click here to read the sampler.

Click here to listen to Episode 44: "My Father's Secret" by Simon Wood

Simon Wood is an ex-racecar driver, a licensed pilot and an occasional private investigator. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines anthologies, such as Seattle Noir, Thriller 2 and Woman’s World. He's a frequent contributor to Writer's Digest. He's the Anthony Award winning author of Working Stiffs, Accidents Waiting to Happen, Paying the Piper and We All Fall Down. His next thriller, Terminated, will be out next June. Curious people can learn more at www.simonwood.net.  Hear another of Simon's stories (Tenths of a Second) at Sniplits.com.

I also talk a bit in this episode about a new project I'm getting into that you can find out about at SethHarwood.com: it's my Disney Kindle Commando Sunday, wherein I'm asking listeners to buy two of my story collections on Amazon's Kindle store on 12/27, just after XMas. Total cost: $1.98. Think you can swing into that action? Hope so. More soon.

That's right: the podcast known by no other name than The Awful Show, came through last month to interview me about CrimeWAV, Jack Palms Crime, and all the rest of the good things. Thanks to Nerraux for having me on! For those who haven't listened to their podcast yet, head on over to http://awfulshow.com and you'll find some great comedy and talk/interview content. These guys rock!

Click here to listen! Check out this interview to fill up your ear-pieces for a bit. I'll be back next week with a new story!

For more info on my online creative writing class for the winter quarter: The Essential Art: Making Movies in Your Reader's Mind, go here. For info on the Detective Fiction class at CCSF, email me!

Registration is now open for my Winter term (1/11-3/19) online creative writing class. You can get more info and register here now.

The Essential Art: Making Movies in Your Reader's Mind

Fiction and nonfiction are at their best when the sense of reading falls away, when we find ourselves immersed in the book’s action, as if we were watching a movie, our heart tied to the narrator’s struggle, swooning with vertigo from the top of a tall building or wincing from a cutting remark. Such writing seems effortless, but is in fact a learnable—and essential— skill. Such will be our focus: to find the balance of description, imagery, and exciting prose that not only pulls in readers, but also forces them to co-create the story, interacting and engaging with the text.

As we develop these skills, we will also spend a few weeks focusing on the publishing landscape and the business side of getting published. Using a few simple tools and easy-to-follow steps (including how to create a recording of yourself reading your work), students will work on growing their online author presence and attracting readers.