The DIY Ethic Pays Off

Seth Harwood, who has been tirelessly promoting his print-on-demand debut Jack Wakes Up, has just sold the book to Crown/Random House for publication as a trade paperback in 2009. He also somehow managed to get into the SF Chronicle twice in one week. Yeah. Two articles about his work in a top tier newspaper in one week. That sound you hear in the distance is the rage filled sobbing of overpaid publicists in New York as they weep bitter tears of jealousy over not being able to get that kind of press for their clients.