- Scott Sigler
Infobox Writer
name = Scott Carl Sigler
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birthplace = Cheboygan, MI, USA
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occupation = Author
nationality = American
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genre =Science Fiction /Horror
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movement = The Podiobook (Podcast Novel)
influences =Stephen King ,King Kong ,Jack London
influenced = J.C. Hutchins
website = http://scottsigler.net/Scott Carl Sigler is a contemporary American author of
science fiction and horror as well as an avidpodcaster . Originally fromMichigan he now resides inSan Francisco, California with his wife and two dogs.Life
Raised in
Cheboygan, Michigan Sigler's father passed his love of classic monster movies along to his son. His mother, a school teacher, encouraged his reading offering him any book he wanted [cite web
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title = Podcasts are a novel idea for Scott Sigler
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publisher =Toledo Blade
date =2007-04-01
url = http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/ART16/70331020/-1/ART
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] . Sigler wrote his first monster story, "Tentacles", at the age of eight [cite web
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title = Detroit Free Press Home Computing Column
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publisher = Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
date = 2001-12-04
url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80537634.html
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accessdate = 2007-09-17 ] .Sigler didn't travel far for college having attended
Olivet College (Olivet, MI) andCleary College (Ann Arbor, MI) where he earned a BA in Journalism and a BS in Marketing. Scott has had a varied career path having worked fast food, picking fruit, shoveling horse manure, a sports reporter, director of marketing for a software company, software startup founder, marketing consultant, guitar salesman, bum in a rock band [cite web
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title = iPublish.com at Time Warner Books unveils third round of authors discovered through online writer community.
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publisher = Ingram Investment Ltd
date = 2001-11-07
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accessdate = 2007-09-17 ] , and currently as a social media strategist.Use of Technology
EarthCore was originally published in 2001 by iPublish, an AOL/Time Warner imprint [cite web
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title = A Novel Approach to Podcasting
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publisher = The Book Standard
date = 2005-08-26
url = http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001022353
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accessdate = 2007-09-17 ] . With the novel doing well as a promotionalebook , Time Warner was planning on publishing the novel. With the economic slump followingSeptember 11, 2001 terrorist attacks , Time Warner did away with the imprint in 2004, Scott decided to start podcasting his novel in March, 2005 as "the world's first podcast-only novel" [cite web
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title = Fiction author releases ‘Podcast-only’ novel
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publisher =iLounge.com
date =2005-03-24
url = http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/fiction-author-releases-podcast-only-novel/
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accessdate = 2007-09-17 ] to build hype and garner an audience for his work. Sigler considered it a "no brainer" to offer the book as a free audio download. Having searched for podcast novels and finding none, Sigler decided to be the first [cite web
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title = Access to Supply Powers Demand--and First Sci-Fi Podcast Novel. (Q&A with Scott Sigler)
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publisher =CK's Blog
date =2006-08-26
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] . [cite web
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title = From Podcast to Paidcast
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publisher =PRNewswire
date =2006-03-09
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] Sigler was able to get "EarthCore" offered as a paid download oniTunes in 2006 [cite web
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title = Earthcore Podcast Now Pay to Play
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publisher =Podcasting News
date =2006-02-21
url = http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2006/02/earthcore_podca_1.html
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] .After "EarthCore"'s success ("EarthCore" had over 10,000 subscribers [cite web
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first = Devanshu
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title = From Podcast to Paidcast
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publisher =Apple Matters
date =2006-02-23
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] ), Sigler released "Ancestor", "Infection", and "The Rookie" via podcast. Currently he is producing a weekly podcast with Nocturnal, his current podcast novel (Podiobook)Pushing boundaries, Sigler released an Adobe PDF version of "Ancestor" on Monday 19th March 2007 through Sigler's own podcast as well as others. "Ancestor" was released on April 1, 2007 to much internet hype and, despite having been released two weeks earlier as a free ebook, reached #7 on
Amazon.com 's best-seller list and #1 on Sci-Fi, Horror and Genre-Fiction on the day of release [cite web
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title = Scott Sigler’s Ancestor Skyrockets to Top 10 of Amazon Best-Seller List on First Day of Release
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publisher =PodShow.com
date =2007-04-02
url = http://pressroom.podshow.com/2007/04/02/scott-sigler%E2%80%99s-ancestor-skyrockets-to-top-10-of-amazon-best-seller-list-on-first-day-of-release/
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] .Sigler is leveraging
new media to keep in-touch with his fans, regularly talking with them usingsocial networking sites, via email, and IM.Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article on March 1, 2007 by Andrew Adam Newman [cite web
last = NEWMAN
first = ANDREW ADAM
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title = Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts
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publisher =The New York Times
date =2007-03-01
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/books/01podb.html?ei=5090&en=e6877e6b9ee3f134&ex=1330405200&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1190002513-iVRfCt0VSgCm5Yf98AYstA
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accessdate = 2007-09-16 ] which was covering authors using podcasting innovations to garner a broader audience.Awards
Sigler has been a runner up in both the 2006 and 2007
Parsec Awards .In 2006 Sigler was a runner up for his short story "Hero" in the Best Fiction (Short) category and for "Infection" in the Best Fiction (Long) category.
In 2007 Sigler was a runner up for "The Rookie" in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novel Form) category.
Influences
Stephen King Sigler calls King a "master craftsman", who writes from the "regular guy" strata from which he hails. "His older stuff had no pretense, no "higher message," no “I’m extremely important” attitude, just rock-solid storytelling and character development. He also would whack any character at any time, and that’s what hooked you in – when characters got into trouble, you didn’t know if they’d live, unlike 99% of the books out there that are trying to develop franchise characters."
Jack London According to Sigler, "
The Sea Wolf totally changed my views on life".Sigler saw King Kong (1976 version) when he was a little kid. He said it, "Scared the crap out of me. I hid behind my dad’s shoulder and begged to leave the theatre. As soon as we were out, I asked when we could see it again – that was the moment I knew I wanted to tell monster stories. I wanted to have that same impact on other people."
Written Material / Podcasts / Theatrical Works
Books In Print
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Scott Sigler, Phil Masters, Dean Edgell, Dana Edgell (1991) "Champions Presents #1" ISBN 1558061231 Hero Games
Scott Sigler (1998) "Asp Technocracy (Silent Death, the Next Millennium)" Iron Crown Enterprises
Scott Sigler (1993) "Shadows of the City" ISBN 1558061819
Scott Sigler (1997) "Silent Death House Sigurd Archdiocese" ISBN 1558062955 Iron Crown Enterprises
Scott Sigler, Don Dennis (1997) "Sigurd Archdiocese: Forces Book" ISBN 1558062955
Scott Sigler, (2005), "EarthCore", ISBN 9781896944326 Dragon Moon Press
Scott Sigler, (2007), "Ancestor", ISBN 9781896944739 Dragon Moon Press
Scott Sigler, (2008), "Infected", ISBN 9780307406101 Crown
Podcast Novels
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*"EarthCore" (2005)
*"Ancestor" (2006)
*"Infection" (now 'Infected') (2006)
*"Rookie, The" (2007) , originally aired from from September 25, 2006 to April 24, 2007.
*"Nocturnal" (2007), currently airing.Theatrical Adaptations
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In May, 2007 the novel Infection was
optioned byRogue Pictures andRandom House Films [cite web
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first = Kit
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title = Rogue, Random book 'Infested'
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publisher =The Hollywood Reporter
date =2007-05-31
url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ibdf0b7dd533b3de6307eb35ae359edd4
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] . Renamed "Infected", the movie is currently in the planning stages.The short story "Sacred Cow" was made into an online only mini-movie by StrangerThings.tv and was Stranger Things debut episode [cite web
last = Newton
first = Earl
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title = Episode 01: Sacred Cow
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publisher = StrangerThings.tv
date =2007-03-02
url = http://www.strangerthings.tv/?p=34
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accessdate = 2007-09-18 ] ."Cheating Bastard", a short film about a couple in love with football and their obsession with it, was created by Brent Weichsel and released via Sigler's RSS feed
hort Stories
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*"Seigeshire" "White Wolf Magazine" Issue 21
*"Kumite" (1994) "Adventurer's Club Magazine" Issue 24
*"Number One With a Bullet" (1997) "Monsters from Memphis" anthology (ISBN 978-1880964217) , and "Bloodcast" feed
*"Chuckles Mulrooney, Attorney for the Damned", (2006) Episode 57, Escape Pod podcast
*"Hero" (2006) Episode 35, Escape Pod podcast
*"Bag Man" (2006) Episode 1, Pseudopod podcast and "Bloodcast" feed
*"Splashing Contest" Flesh & Blood magazine, and "Bloodcast" feed
*"Sacred Cow" (2007) "Bloodcast" feed
*"Great Snipe Hunt, The" (2007) "Bloodcast" feed
*"Kissyman" (2007) "Bloodcast" feed
*"Iowa Typhoon" (2007) "Bloodcast" feed
*"Passenger" (2007) "Bloodcast" feedFuture Stories
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*"Nocturnal" is the newest podcast novel and was released on October 31, 2007 at 12:00 midnight EST, 9:00 PM PST.*"Earthcore II: Mt. Fitzroy" was officially announced at the September 2006 Portable Media Expo (now renamed "The Podcast & New Media Expo") in Ontario, California. The podcast sequel to "Earthcore" follows a heavily-armed team led by the surviving Patrick O'Doyle as they head off to the other known Rocktopi site at Mt. Fitzroy, Argentina. While no official release date has been announced, the author stated it would be out approximately one year from the date of the 2006 Expo, which will now be pushed back due to Nocturnal's release.
*"Contagious" is the sequel to "Infected" (formerly "Infection" and "Infested") which will be followed by
*"Pandemic", the third book in the Infected series.
*"The Starter" is the sequel to "The Rookie". It will tell the story of the Ionath Krakens as a Tier One GFL team.
*"Descendent" is the sequel to the smash hit "Ancestor". Sigler has hinted towards the topic of the book on the [http://www.genada.com Genada Webpage] . The suggested topic is bioinformatics.
*"The Crypt" is a novel set in space aboard the classified warship, the P.U.V. "James Keeling", nicknamed "The Crypt", because of the high fatality rate. Sigler has hinted to "The Crypt" in three, short downloads in the Nocturnal RSS feed. These downloads were "?1puvjk", released on March 12th, 2008, "error3 reconstruct :|::|:", on March 19th, 2008, and ":||:::dualism-desrtuct|::::|", August 21st, 2008. "The Crypt" was officially announced on July 3rd, 2008, on Scott's website.
Trivia
* On episodes released the week of
June 5th 2006 , Sigler and fellow podcast novelistJ. C. Hutchins announced a contest called " [http://jchutchins.net/7Son/SHARE%20THE%20PAIN.html Share The Pain] " in which listeners are to identify the six instances in which the storyline of Sigler's "Infection" podcast novel collide with that of Hutchins' "7th Son Book 2, Deceit.". The contest was run by Sigler, Hutchins andPodcast Pickle .
* Scott Sigler has made mention of another Scott Sigler, who performs as a clown and has apparently been mistaken for Scott the author. Strangely or suspiciously, the "other" Scott Sigler's clown name is Mookie, the same as Scott's deceased dog.
* In the premiere episode "Sacred Cow" on Stranger Things, Sigler played the voice of Bishop Kirland's personal assistant and, in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, can be seen with a large pair of steel scissors in a framed picture.
* In "Bloodcast #11: All news, no story" Posted October 7th, 2007, Scott Sigler changed his GORE line (206)666-4673 message live.
* In both the print version of "Earthcore" and the podcast version of "Infected", Scott Sigler had a character named Andre Vogel. In Earthcore, he was the director of the NSA who Kayla Meyers celled to be re-instated. In Infected, he was the partner of CIA agent Dew Phillips, and is wounded at the very beginning of the novel. The name in the print version of Infected was changed to Malcolm Johnson.References
External links
* [http://www.scottsigler.net/ Scott Sigler's website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/scottsigler Scott's Sigler's MySpace page]
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Scott_Sigler Scott Sigler] onInternet Speculative Fiction Database
* [http://www.scottsigler.com/ Official Sigler Community website]
* [http://www.reprobateshour.com/podpress_trac/web/16/0/reprobates_s2_e2_scottsigler.mp3 Sigler Discusses Podcast and Novel Marketing on The Polyschizmatic Reprobates Hour]
* [http://epicfu.com/2008/07/nin-treasure-hunt-scott-sigler.html Video interview of Scott Sigler by Zadi Diaz of EPIC FU] , weekly web show that covers online pop culture (July 22 ,2008 )
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