I was more than happy to catch up with Keith Rawson and Jason Duke on the road last week in Scottsdale, AZ. We were all at the Poisoned Pen bookstore, one hell of an awesome place!

We are back in the interlude zone due to more shipping issues with our H2's and our foreign-soil contacts. Basically, turns out the Royal Mail/USPS relations have gone cold and there's no love for overseas shipping these days.

So, instead of your normally scheduled story, I'm happy to give you another thrilling taste of the novel JACK WAKES UP! It's been out for six weeks now, is doing well, and just popped in at #9 on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) Bestseller List! So I give that a what what!

This is episode two of JACK WAKES UP!!

You can order your copy here. Visit my site for where I'll be reading and videos of recent events. *Fear not: CrimeWAV is not becoming sethharwood.com #2. We'll be back with more great stories for you soon!

Eric BeetnerThis week we present Eric Beetner. Eric is an Editor, Producer, Director and Screenwriter in Los Angeles. He has sold several scripts but none have made it to the screen, like most writers in Hollywood. He wrote and directed his own film 'Taking Your Life', which played well on the festival circuit and can be found on Indieflix.com. Some of his music videos and short films can be found at ericbeetner.com. A listing of Eric's stories can be found on his author's page

Direct link to episode here: Eric Beetner reads "Past Due" which comes to us through the Twist of Noir contest that happened earlier this year.

Netflix movie of the week is Harper! This is one of my favorites based upon the Ross MacDonald character Lew Archer. There is a real interesting story behind why Paul Newman changed the name of the lead character.

Finally: If you live in the Boston area, here is where you can find Seth. Seth is back in his hometown promoting his book JACK WAKES UP. Go ahead and make the trip, spread the love and check out those fancy author signing shoes.....Yo.

6/9 Tuesday - Boston/Union Square - The Independent Bar & Lounge - presented by Kate's Mystery Books - 75 Union Square - 6:30P

6/11 Thursday - Newton, MA - Newtonville Books - 296 Walnut St. - 7:00P - Books & Brews!

6/12 Friday - Cambridge, MA - Harvard Coop Bookstore - 3rd floor - Harvard Square - 7:00P

Be there! See you!

This week we've got another story from the other side of the pond. I hope you'll enjoy by Gary Dobbs with "Rhonda Noir." This one will make you think of Guy Ritchie, Tarantino, and all the goods! Enjoy!

Direct link to episode here: Gary Dobbs reads "Rhonda Noir"

Gary's first book is Tarnished Star by Jack Martin, to be published by Robert Hale LTD/ Black Horse Westerns on June 30th! Look for it! As a bit part actor he has appeared in The Risen, Doctor Who, Moonmonkeys, Torchwood, Larkrise, The Big I am. As a writer using the pen name Jack Martin as well as Gary Dobbs he's been published in many magazines and on BBC Radio Four.

Also, be on the lookout for our boy J.C. Hutchins' first novel, Personal Effects: Dark Art, coming out on June 9th from St. Martin's Press.

Netflix movie of the week is Black Caesar! You will definitely love this movie--more or less! See the trailer here! My plug this week is the blog Open Culture. Check them out!

You hear the Young Junius remix by La MoDa Mixtapes? Listen here if you haven't: Link to Remix.  And the right link for their podcast is http://lamodamixtapes.blogspot.com/ they're definitely one to check!

Last up: come out to my next events in SF and NYC! I'm at Borderlands Books in the Mission on Sat. 5/30 at 3PM. Then I'm in NYC on June 4th at Mysterious Bookshop at 6:30. Be there! See you!

Today we hear from our friend Anthony Neil Smith! He's our boy and, just like the Indy 500, he's running a long, serious race.

One week of the HOGDOGGIN VIRTUAL MOTORCYCLE RALLY down, one more to go on our way to HOGDOGGIN' Monday--JUNE 1st--when I'd like you fine readers to take a chance on my new novel--a biker noir following Billy Lafitte, the bad cop from YELLOW MEDICINE, on his descent to hell via the midwestern prairies--and send it racing up the charts.  Order it online or at your local bookstore, or get in touch with one of the bookstores along my tour route and they'll get a signed copy out to you!
 
Find out where I'll be over at CRIMEDOG ONE, my "virtual dive bar", and drop in at a signing.  And check out the wild story our 23 guest bloggers are spinning over here during the Rally, and check out my response over at their blogs.  There's a list in the right-hand column so you can follow along.
 
And thanks to Seth Harwood for his support.  The man's a machine, and he churned out one highly-tuned muscle car of a book with JACK WAKES UP!

Direct link to CrimeWAV Episode 37 - The Oath
Welcome to the CrimeWAV - This week we're proud to feature Rich Katz. 
 
Rich Katz lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife, Lynn, and two cats, Felix and Scout.  He has a Ph.D. in Speech Pathology, but learned his most valuable lessons working in his father’s jewelry store in Boston’s Combat Zone, next door to the infamous Gilded Cage, where Rich watched his Dad handle cops and crooks, entertainers and escorts, and anyone else on the make.  He’s a lifelong fan of crime fiction and film noir, and in January of this year, studied crime writing with Seth on his Stanford online course.  This story is the result of that course and is Rich’s first work of crime fiction.
 
Reading this week's story is Daryl Wood Gerber a fellow student in the Stanford class with Rich. Daryl Wood Gerber lives in California and is a writer, actress, and voice talent.  Her website is www.darylwoodgerber.com. We hope to be hearing from her soon on the CrimeWav.
 
JACK WAKES UP has been out for over a week. Do you have your copy yet? I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out JACK WAKES UP, listen to a couple episodes, try the free PDF, or buy the book and give it a read.

Direct link to CrimeWAV 36 - Poems from The Lineup

Welcome to the CrimeWAV - This week we're proud to feature crime poems from The Lineup, an annual anthology of poems on crime published by Poetic Justice Press. You can buy The Lineup #2 online at Lulu.com and at fine independent booksellers Murder by the Book in Houston and Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis.

You can find more information about The Lineup here: http://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/

Poets featured on this episode are: "Metro" by R. Narvaez
"110 MPH in a Stolen Pickup" by Patrick Shawn Bagley
"Prayer of an Arson Investigator" by Sarah Cortez
"Four Minutes" by Gerald So
"Don Henley Will Be Mine" by Misti Rainwater-Lites

From The Lineup #2:
"Visiting Hours, State Pen" by Amy MacLennan
"A Whisper of Smoke" by Stephen D. Rogers
"A Wild Flaw Amongst Us" by Christopher Watkins

On the homefront: Here in my world, it's been a HUGE week, as my first novel JACK WAKES UP hit bookstores nationwide and all over the web. I was lucky enough to get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review AND written up in my hometown paper, The Boston Globe, for how I've found readers by podcasting my work. I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out JACK WAKES UP, listen to a couple episodes, try the free PDF, or buy the book and give it a read.

If you'd like to hear my audio wrap-up of the week, go here.

It's one more way to support the CrimeWAV and to tell the world that YOU want podcast fiction!

That's right. Please excuse the homer-ish nature of this week's post, but my debut novel, JACK WAKES UP, hits stores and I could NOT be more excited about it. So we're all JACK WAKES UP all this week, all the time! Enjoy.

Here for your listening pleasure is Episode 1 (Chapter 1) of Jack Wakes Up, free for your ear-pieces. If you'd like to hear more of the book, you can find it on iTunes, Podiobooks.com or at my site, sethharwood.com. You can also buy it here: order JACK WAKES UP.

Hope you enjoy it! And I hope you'll take a moment to appreciate the great fiction you get here by picking up a copy and supporting your friendly neighborhood crime podcaster.

Michael Connelly says: "Jack Wakes Up Rocks! It's a fast, smooth ride on a highway not found on any map!"

CrimeWAV, episode 35: Crossing the Border by John Dodds, read by Alasdair Stuart.

John Dodds is a Scottish writer now living in Bulgaria. His first crime novel, Bone Machines, came out in 2007, and his second, Kali's Kiss, is doing the rounds seeking an agent and a publisher. His short stories have appeared in a bunch of print and online publications, and three of them received honourable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology. 

Alasdair Stuart, who reads Crossing the Border, is one of the hosts of the excellent horror podcast magazine, Pseudopod, which ran John's story, Rapunzel's Room, in episode 70. You'll find lots of great stories there; just log on to www.pseudopod.org.

For more free stories by John including Bone Machines, which is now availabe as a free e-book,  go to his blog: http://bonemachines.wordpress.com. John welcomes your comments.

LESS than 7 days until Cinco de Harwood (May 5th, Baby!) and the release of JACK WAKES UP. If the good news about JACK WAKES UP spurs you to action, you can order a copy here: http://sethharwood.com/order.  Read more or listen to the podcast here: sethharwood.com/jack