Declan Burke has published a number of novels, the most recent being ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL, which won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2012 and was shortlisted in the crime fiction category at the Irish Book Awards 2011. As a journalist and critic, he writes and broadcasts on books and film for a variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. The unfortunate affliction of speaking of himself in the third person will soon pass. All views expressed here are very likely to be contrary.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Easter Rising II – Jack Wakes Up

We rather like the cut of Seth Harwood’s jib, people, given that he’s embarking on a one-man mission to stick it to The Man, in the process offering a pretty much unbeatable try-before-you-buy scenario with the publication of JACK WAKES UP. Quoth Seth:
“It would be great if you could drop a blog entry about JACK WAKES UP this weekend or later this week telling your readers what JACK WAKES UP is and that its release date is Palms Sunday, March 16th, and that the place to buy it on that date is Amazon.com. Include the link to the PDF and let all your peeps download the complete book! I’m trying something new: try it before you buy it. About time books got this on the net. So they can download the PDF, browse through it or even read the whole thing if they want. Just like in a bookstore. Then, if they want to buy, there’s a link inside that’ll take them right to Amazon. I hope that sounds good.”
It sounds entirely Jake to us. Herewith be the link to the PDF of JACK WAKES UP, and anyone remotely interested in supporting independent publishing should log on and give it a whirl. Otherwise there’ll be nothing to read but wall-to-wall James Patterson ‘novels’ in about a decade’s time, and they’ll have to resurrect Dante to invent a whole new level of hell.

2 comments:

Seth Harwood said...

We're NOT going down to the Wal-Mart-ization of our reading shelves. No way! Fight for your right for independent presses by checking out the Free Jack Wakes Up PDF today!

Declan Burke said...

We got your back, Seth. You bring the lawyers and dry sherry, we'll bring the attack helicopters. Cheers, Dec