Okay, most authors would probably complete that sentence by saying "ready to find an agent." But his idea of free podcasts actually worked.
You can read more about it in the San Francisco Chronicle
here. JACK WAKES UP was purchased by THREE RIVERS PRESS (Random House) and will be re-released on May 5th 2009. It has already received rave reviews from Publisher's Weekly, a NY Times Book Review is said to be in the works.
Want to know more about how he did it? Click here for a YouTube video.