Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #19

IN THIS EPISODE:

Bryan, Pookie, Black Mister Burns, Big Tonda Murphy and Wee Chee Yen deal with the aftermath of the Jebediah Erickson fight. Erickson is passed out on the sidewalk after Bryan threw a big-ass silver knife into the man’s belly, so deep that the point came out Erickson’s back. Meanwhile, Aggie James faces the horror that is … Mommy.

SHOW NOTE LINKS:

>click here to promote Siglerism with free stuff at Infectednovel.com. Get free postcards, stickers, printable flyers and do-it-yourself CDs to infect those poor suckers around you who have not yet received the Word of Siglerism.

>click here if you’ve got a site and you want to run some INFECTED banner ads.

>click here to pimp out your Instant Messengers or your Twitter icon with the April 1 INFECTED icon.

>click here for Passenger Part Three, link fixed, episode re-posted - intergalactic canibalism, at your service.

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The Astral Audio Experience

The Adventures of Indiana Jim

Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #18

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan and Pookie’s ordeal in Erickson’s basement continues, as Rex learns more about his new “family.” Aggie James has a chance to live, but what what price? What will Hillary ask of him, and how does it involve the mysterious “Mommy?”

LAST CHANCE TO BE ORIGINAL JUNKIE:
Sign up now on this very site! If you have a profile already, you are an original Junkie. If not, March 16 is the deadline. After that, you can be a Junkie of many flavors and sripes, but you can’t be an Original Junkie. What’s that get you? An icon on your profile. Yep, I am just that kind of big-spender.

SHOW NOTES & LINKS:

• NOCTURNAL Map updates - see the locations of the buried ships >click to see that shiz
• Scott’s guest blog over at AMCTV.com - the Michael Myers Makeover >click to see that shiz
• Pictures of the INFECTED hardcover are posted >click to see that shiz
• INFECTED’s starred review in Publishers Weekly (what kind of crack are they smoking and where can I get some?) >click to see that shiz, and you’ll have to scroll down a bit.

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INFECTED Prologue
& Chapter 1

Here we go, my Junkies, the fully re-written INFECTED, large and in-charge. My present to you on this, my third anniversary of podcasting. Yes, it was March of 2005 when I launched EARTHCORE as the world’s first podcast-only novel. My how time flies when the Future Dark Overlord™ is creating stories for all y’all OJs.

We are 30 days out from the hardcover launch of INFECTED. Just one month to go before General Siglerisimo rolls his tanks down Mainstreet USA (okay, that part might will be a little farther out than 30 days, but I will be picking out tank colors at Bob’s Discount Tank & Rifle Outlet next week).

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NOCTURNAL Episode #17

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Bryan and Pookie cross the line as they break into Jebediah Erickson’s house. Inside, they find the door to the basement — a place Bryan has seen in his nightmares.
• Robin Hudson and Stone Mason analyze urine from the mob hit murder scenes, as well as the semen of Rex Deprovdechuk. What will this new genetic information tell them about the mysterious Zed chromosomes?
• Frank Lanza’s grip on the city tightens, but the Russian mob isn’t done with him yet
• Aggie James may finally get his chance to live — but only, if he goes with Hillary

HELP PROMOTE INFECTED: MISSIONS #2 and #3

• Mission #2: Let Scott soil your cell phone with INFECTED ringtones and wall papers
• Mission #3: Got a podcast? Then fire up the promo for INFECTED, ya Damn Dirty New Media Junkie

GENERAL SIGLERISIMO IS EVERYWHERE …

• Scott is guest blogging at AMCTV.com

PRINT FICTION PROMOS IN THIS EPISODE

• Matt Wallace’s THE NEXT FIX
• Seth Harwood’s JACK WAKES UP

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NOCTURNAL Episode #16

IN THIS EPISODE:
Rex Deprovdechuk made his first entry into the subterranean realms of Marie’s Children, and beneath the streets of San Francisco, he sees the home he never had. While Bryan Clauser kept watch on Jebediah Erickson’s house, Pookie Chang made the call to Judge Rodriguez to get a late-night warrant. Warrant approved, Pookie is on his way to pick up that warrant, then meet up with Bryan to finally go after the evidence to nail Erickson on murder charges. Episode #16 also marks the first appearance of Tard, another of Marie’s Children.

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Fitness Attack
• The Under Development Podcast
• Silverwolf

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NOCTURNAL Episode #15

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan Clauser and Pookie Chang pay a visit to 13-year-old murder suspect Rex Deprovdechuk.

MEDIA COVERAGE:
Some bitchin’ cover love from reporter Dan Klass for Blogger & Podcaster magazine. Yeah, bitches, you heard me, the cover. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

NEWS:
- Third Anniversary podcasting present for all y’all (you have to listen in to know what it is)
- SiglerStank book tour announced!

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- DarkAge podcast novel
- Mur Lafferty
- Tee Morris
- J.C. Hutchins
- Mark Jeffrey

Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #14

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan Clauser and Pookie Chang rush to have a conversation with retired homicide detective Francis Parkmeyer. Parkmeyer was the lead investigator on the Golden Gate Park Slasher case decades ago. He’s retired and senile most of the time, so when he has his “good days,” Bryan and Pookie need to get as much out of him as they can before he slips back into senility. As soon as they finish with Parkmeyer, they are off to question Rex Deprovdechuk a 13-year-old boy who is now a main suspect in four murders and three disappearances.

BOYCO:
Whatever happened to Jay Parlar and Issac Moses of BoyCo? We get part of the answer in this episode.

Monsters?
Are they, or are they not monsters? Sly and Pierre are back, as is something new …

Click here to download
the NOCTURNAL promo

Got a podcast? Throw this promo in for your Future Dark Overlord™, then email me the link at scott@scottsigler.net, and you may … I stress, MAY … be kept of the list of the Pogrom’s first round. Really, it’s your best shot at survival. I suggest you take it. Yep, that’s the golden voice of Ranger Bob, who has voiced my promos for over two years now.

Oh yea, there’s a wee little plot teaser in here as well …

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NOCTURNAL Episode #13

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Maggie O’Donnell deals with the aftermath of Pookie’s examination of the Golden Gate Park Slasher case.
• Bryan and Pookie have a strange showdown with Cheif Zou.
• Rex is realizing his newfound place in the high school social ladder.
• Aggie James is doomed … or is he? Is there a way out of this nightmare?

JUNKIES BECOME CHARACTERS IN THIS EPISODE:

• CJ “Gmork” Wellman
• Donald “Wallerdad” Martin
• Jesse “Qeldroma” Sharrow
• Geordon “medic” Van Tassle
• Thomas “Treed” Reed
• Chuck “HwyHzrd” Baker

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Buffy Between the Lines
• Seth Harwood’s Jack Wakes up
• Jovian Gate Chonricles
• Into The Dark/Computer King
• J.C. Hutchins

Click here to play NOCTURNAL Episode #12

IN THIS EPISODE:
Robin demands a late-night meeting with Bryan and Pookie - she’s found the connection between the murders of Alex Panos, Kyle Souller and Marco Gastineau. Pookie also continues his research, examining the police records of the Golden Gate Park Slasher case.

SIGLER ASCENCION NEWS:
Two more countries fall to Siglerism as we roll through the former Soviet Bloc. Good times roll easier on tank treads, my friends.

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NOCTURNAL Episode #11

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan set about stalking Savior, hunting a hunter. Pookie does the leg work running down leads - Marco Gastineau’s landlord, Jebidiah Erickson’s background, and teaming with Black Mister Burns analyzing the arrowhead symbols. Robin Hudson finally gets to go home, where she sees her dog Emma and her neighbor, Big Gay Max.

SIGLER ASCENSION MISSIONS
#1 - AMAZON REVENGE:
Do you use Amazon.com? Do you have 10 minutes to help your Future Dark Overlord? Then CLICK HERE.

JUNKIE’S NOCTURNAL PHOTO TOUR OF SAN FRANCISCO:
Click here to see this. Junkie Snafu visited San Francisco and used Google Maps to visit all the settings in Nocturnal. You gotta check this out, Junkies, this is a lot of fun — you can see the “sets” of Nocturnal as they really look.

NOCTURNAL GOOGLE MAP UPDATED:
Click here to see the map with Jebidiah Erickson’s house added, as is the spot where Marco Gastineau bought it.

HOUSTON WINS!
Houston, TX is the fifth city on the Sigler Stank™ book tour, probably to run April-May 2008. Houston kicked ass with 76 votes

JUNKIES IN THIS EPISODE:

• Kees Marjis, aka Junkie Flummox
• Earl Dyer (sorry, Earl, can’t find your damn profile page …)

PODCASTS MENTIONED:

• Black Shadow podcast novel

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NOCTURNAL Episode #10

In this episode:
Bryan and Pookie grab the arrowhead that killed Marco Gastineau and take it to Bryan’s favorite person, Mr. Biz-Nass. The tourette’s-afflicted, larnyx-cancer-surviving fortune teller has seen these symbols before, and it seems there is more to fear than just Marie’s Children. Robin Hudson, the San Fran medical examiner, tracks down more clues about the strange murder weapon — she not only discovers who made the arrowhead, but where that person lives … right in San Francisco’s uber-wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood.

Junkies who got killed in this episode (well, at least named in this episode)

• Martyn Casserly, a.k.a “martyndarkly“
• Jane Kohner, a.k.a. “s13Cybergal“

Podcasts/Blogs in this episode

• Mark Nemcoff’s Transistor Rodeo podcast novel
• The Blog of Helljack

Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #9.5

IN THIS EPISODE:
Pookie and Bryan go to the San Francisco morgue to examine the arrowhead that killed Marco Gastineau.

FUTURE DARK OVERLORD MESSES UP!
Bit of a screw-up here, Junkies - I left this chapter out of Episode #10. Therefore, sandwhiching between #9 and #10 as “Episode #9.5.” Let’s just call it a “bonus episode” and you can shower me with thanks. That works for me …

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NOCTURNAL Episode #9

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan Clauser and Pookie Chang just saw their only witness assassinated, a bow-and-arrow hit fired by a guy five stories up and eighty feet away. Bryan gives chase as Pookie deals with the victim. Word has come down from Frank Lanza that it’s time for Johnny Yee to go — when the Little Men come for Johnny, will he find a way to escape and seek revenge for his wife and son?

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EP:

• Metamor City Podcast: stories & novels
• AudioMetrix interview with David Kanter

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE!
December 31 is your last chance to get Sigs to your town as part of the INFECTED book tour. Get your votes in now by clicking here.

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NOCTURNAL Episode #8

IN THIS EPISODE:
Frank Lanza and Firstborn meet, giving us insight into Lanza’s plan for San Francisco. Robin Hudson and Stone Mason delve further into the mysterious Zed chromosome. Homicide detective Bryan Clauser visits his opinionated father before joining his parther Pookie Chang as the two question Marco Gastineau, the sole witness to Kyle Souller’s murder.

LATEST JUNKIE VICTIM:
Robert Wicks is the lucky Junkie to be immortalized in the pages of Nocturnal. Listen for his name in this episode.

AFTER THE EPISODE:
Deadline announced for the Sigler Stank™ book tour contest. Get your votes in now by clicking here.

BONUS STUFF:
The guys over at Variant Frequencies are pimping their Christmas present to podiobook fans everywhere. Click on the picture at left to get a free PDF with stories from the Failed Cities Monologues, written by this gigantic award-winning douchebag named Matt Wallace. Seriously, if you haven’t heard this podiobook, you’re only cheating yourself. This PDF is extra content after the main story, but if it’s written by Wallace, it’s worth your time. Oh and please read everything the man has now, because I’m going to have to have him killed soon, and when he’s gone, so is his fiction.

NOCTURNAL goes on GO DADDY. Visit GoDaddy, buy all the URLs you want and transfer domains until you crap, then enter the code ‘SCOTT1′ and whammo, your Junkie ass gets 10 percent off!

Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #1 PDF

Junkies, use this to spread the Gospel of Siglerism. This PDF will let you get non-techies hooked on the story. They can read it on their computer and use the big-honkin’ play button to hear my wonderful voice, or you can print it and hand it to them. Either way, it gives me a chance to hook them with the beginning of the story.

Also, there is an AWESOME explanation of Podcasting on the last two pages. Hell, even the King of the TechTards™ (a.k.a. “Scott Sigler”) could understand podcasting after reading this puppy.

Click here to download
NOCTURNAL Bonus Episode #3

We’ve got Junkie call-ins from the Gore Line, plus a whole bunch more:

PUBCRAWL:
Friday, December 14 in San Jose at the Brittania House, 8 pm. Click here for a link.

BLOODCAST SEASON #1 :
The first installment of my short story collection is now posted to Podiobooks.com.

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
– Obscure 80’s Podcast

PRODUCED BY:
Jamie Jordan of the Gaming Uncensored podcast.

NOCTURNAL goes on GO DADDY. Visit GoDaddy, buy all the URLs you want and transfer domains until you crap, then enter the code ‘SCOTT1′ and whammo, your Junkie ass gets 10 percent off!

Order away! INFECTED available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Click here to download
NOCTURNAL Episode #7

Shorter episode because I have to start recording the INFECTED audiobook this week. Call-in episode is recorded thanks to Jamie Jordan of the Gaming Uncensored podcast.

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan and Pookie enlist the services of sketch artist Chooch Rodriguez to draw pictures of the people in Bryan’s dreams — the people that have not been murdered … yet. The first drawing reveals someone that Pookie already knows. Will Bryan and Pookie reach this person in time?

AFTER THE EPISODE:
An update on the Sigler Stank™ INFECTED book tour contest (hint, Houston, you don’t have a problem).

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing
• A View From the Quad
• KnitWitch SciFi Fantasy Zone
• Cup Car Update

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NOCTURNAL Bonus Episode #2

I made two mistakes, which I correct here. Mention this to anyone and you’re dead!

Houston is in the lead for the INFECTED book tour, but it’s far from over. Vote now!
Paul’s email: new server, Pusher Pulsar stepping up to help out Robbie T. Link to thread in show notes if you want to thank him. Migrated Dec 1.

JAPAN: The latest nation to be fall to the Sigler Ascension assault. Here are the flags of nations crushed under my bootheel thus far:

EPISODE LINKS:

• NOCTURNAL Google Map
• Pulsar’s server move page
• NOCTURNAL Wiki Page (check it!)

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NOCTURNAL Episode #6

Pookie plays cleanup at the Paul Fisher murder site. The mysterious symbols appear yet again, and Pookie decides it’s time to go see Mr. Biz-Nass, hack fortune teller and expert on the San Francisco occult scene. Robin Hudson finishes her karotype analysis of Alex Panos’ murderer, only to find a genetic combination that’s never been seen before.

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• QUARTER SHARE podcast novel

Whoa-doggies! Crown Publishing is putting me on a wee little book-tour/pub-crawl to pimp INFECTED. We don’t have the dates yet, but the cities are:

• Your city? Click on the DEMAND IT icon above.
• San Francisco
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Seattle

Yes, my Junkies, I can and will gladly infect your city (get it? “infect” for the book “infected?” I’m so bloody clever it’s damn near shocking …). If you want me in your city, shake your ass out for a vote. Get your friends to vote, but only if them bitches will show up to the book signing. Just click on the big blue ad in the post at the top of the blog.

And if you’re from Compton, don’t bother voting unless ‘Cube is going to be there to cover my ass.

Click here to download
NOCTURNAL Episode #5

Rex learns of the death of his hated bully Alex Panos, and his reaction is not what you might expect. Robin Hudson runs genetic fingerprinting on the saliva of Alex’s murderer, and what she finds seems quite strange. Bryan dreams of stalking yet again - will there be another body when he wakes up? And as for Pookie? Well, he’s just Pookie.

PODCAST FICTION MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• SUNDERED podcast novel promo
• Podcast Junkie

This is the second symbol Bryan found at the Alex Panos murder scene.

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Start selling Grandma’s retirement stocks, because it’s getting close to that time where Junkies can pony up to own their very own copy (or three) of the first printing of INFECTED, a hardcover release due out April 1, 2008. That’s right, the national holiday of Siglerism is back in ‘08, and this time it’s Perry’s balls instead of Jian’s ovaries.

Crown Publishing gave me the go ahead to give the Junkies get FIRST LOOK at the cover (okay, it took a little intimidation, I mean, “convincing” to get them to give it up, but my mentor Hugo Chavez says I’m helping them because it’s for their own good). I think the cover is sa-weet and will really stand out on the book shelves. I hope you guys dig it!

Click here for a PDF of the INFECTED cover, or click on the cover above to get a big-ol’ GIF file.

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NOCTURNAL Episode #4

Bryan and Pookie have a sit-down with San Francisco Chief of Police Amy Zou and Deputy Chief Sean Robertson. Pookie does analysis on the symbols recovered from the Alex Panos murder site, with help from John “The Black Mr. Burns” Smith. Bryan just doesn’t know for sure if he killed that kid or not …

PODCAST FICTION MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Buffy Between the Lines
• Murder on Avedon Hill
• Failed Cities Monologues by that Rat Bastard™ Matt Wallace

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NOCTURNAL Call-In #1

No story content in this one, no urinating murderers, just a whole bunch of happy Junkies calling in to sing the praises of NOCTURNAL and to give me the usual ration of shit.

LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE.

• JC Hutchins - 7th Son
  
• Buffy Between the Lines
• The Big Damn Sequel
• Digital Grafitti

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NOCTURNAL Episode #3

Bryan and Pookie investigate a new murder scene that paints Bryan in a very bad light. Sammy and Jimmy deliver a body to the San Francisco morgue, where they hand it off to Bryan’s ex-girlfriend Robin Hudson.

LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE.

• Email Our Military
• Seth Harwood

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NOCTURNAL Episode #2

Bryan’s dreams continue, but this time they go beyond merely stalking the boys and move towards murder. Bryan’s drawing (shown above) is the only thing that lets him escape the terror of his dreams.

Aggie James awakens to find himself in some kind of a white-painted dungeon. There are others with him, a family of three that looks Chinese but sounds American …

Rex realizes that there are bullies worse than Alex Panos, namely, his foster mother Roberta.

PODCAST NOVEL PROMOS:

• Playing for Keeps
• Black Shadow
• Crescent
• Serve it Cold

Click here to download
NOCTURNAL Episode #1

It has been far too long since I screwed with you, you Damn Dirty Junkie. Welcome to San Francisco, done up all Sigler style. There are things here that lurk far below the streets, and far above them. Things that think you look damn tasty. These things have been watching, waiting, and it’s almost time for them to come out into the light …

Call the GORE line, Bitches: 206-666-4673

What do you think about partial sound effects in this episode? Click here to jump into the forum and let me know.

Click on the Google Map above to check out the NOCTURNAL locations.

Click here to play the NOCTURNAL promo

Junkies - it’s time for a new novel. Not a short story, not a “novella,” but a full-blown, balls-out, tits-swingin’ novel that will have you crying like a little punk every Sunday when the episode finishes. NOCTURNAL is that novel.

And on top of that, I’m running a contest where YOUR NAME can be the name of a victim in NOCTURNAL. All you need to do is go to the brand-new scottsigler.com and register a full profile. Go there, then look on the left-hand side. See where you’d log in? Create a profile. FILL IN ALL THE FIELDS to win! If you don’t want to fill them in, no worries, but only complete profiles are eligible to get ‘dat ass killed and be immortalized in the pages of NOCTURNAL when it’s printed in 2010.

Click here to download BLOODCAST #11

Warning, Junkies, there is no story in this episode - just news and updates.

• EARTHCORE & ANCESTOR SEQUELS:
  Back on track!
• FORMER PUBLISHER:
  Problems resolved!
• INFECTED:
  Crown is going bonkers over this thing …
• THE ROOKIE: In print? And info on the sequel, called THE STARTER
• SCOTTSIGLER.COM
  launches Oct. 8 for all you OJs
• JUNKIE CALLS! A bunch of them, enjoy

SHOWS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• J.C. Hutchins podiobook: 7th Son
• Seth Harwood’s podiobook: This is Life
• Gaming podcast: On Board Games
• Christiana Ellis’s: Space Casey
• Birmingham Soccer Podcast:
  The Absent Bluenose

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Click here to download PASSENGER, PART 3

Big-ol’ throwdown this week. The finale of PASSENGER, partial news on ANCESTOR, EARTHCORE and their sequels, and a passel of video link.

VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS!

• Play> Soccergirl’s awesome coverage of Dragon*Con 2007. The Mensa Mistress of quirky internet video does a rave-up on the nuttiness of Dragon*Con, complete with coverage of the Podcast Playa’s Ball.
• Play> CrunkRock Media’s coverage of The Podcast Playa’s Ball!
• Play> “Leave Britteny Alone” and the spoof Play> “Leave Scott Sigler Alone” (courtesy of Mae, who of course, couldn’t pass up a dig on my oh-so-pathetic female voices …)

PROMOS:

• New podiobook: Murder by Design
• The Scapecast
• Mike’s Hot Dish

Links related to the story:

• Bionic man (fo’ real, yo!)
• Cybernetics? Cyber-naughty-ics, maybe!

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Click here to download PASSENGER, PART TWO

Note: this is a re-post to get dang iTunes to cooperate.

Junkies, I am back from the geek-fest that is DragonCon and ready to sober up. Let’s just say it was a rough time. J.C. Hutchins is an evil, evil bastard who makes people drink. As usual, I accept zero responsibility for my actions. I blame Hutchins, Harwood, and Soccergirl. There should be some video coming up very soon. Many thanks to the Podshow crew for hooking up all that Wide Eye beverage. I think it was nutritious, but don’t quote me.

Oh and I got shut out of the Parsec Awards for the second straight year. I remain the Susan Lucci of podcasting - something like eight award nominations overall, and eight “hey you didn’t win, asshole, so get off the stage” comments.

Here’s your damn episode. Man, you guys are all over me! This one gets a little nutty, and sets up the finale. I’m liking PASSENGER a lot, and I hope you dig it too.

PROMOS:

• Michael Stackpole’s Fortress Draconis podiobook
• A Year At The Wheel podcast
• Multi-Dimensional Ninja Network scifi/fantasy news podcast

This was the post that was pooched: keeping it here just for the comments

PASSENGER is a strange little story that takes place in THE ROOKIE universe, several hundred years before Quentin Barnes & company did their thang for the Krakens. Well, not so little, it’s at least two episodes, and might be three by the time I get through all the gross stuff at the end. Yeah, that’s right, the violence is back. I just can’t help myself. A solid 18 minutes of story, plus some great Junkie calls, plus a few rants, plus some promos, it turns out to be a big fatty of an episode for you. Congrats to podcast fiction workhorse Seth Harwood for landing a print deal with Breakneck Books.

Click here to listen to PASSENGER

THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• EARTHCORE II: MT. FITZROY update
• ANCESTOR II: DESCENDANT update
• ROOKIE print novel update
• J.C. Hutchins (I can’t escape this guy …)
• The Joker = Kissyman?
• Author Jeremy Robinson
• Jamie Jordan - audio producer extraordinaire

PROMOS IN THIS EPISODE:

• Mike Bennet’s new horror fiction podcast, Hall of Mirrors
• MacBook Podcast
• Mike’s Hot Dish
• Everything Acting Podcast

The Damn Dirty Junkies have spoken. We needed a new title for INFECTION, and of the names posted in the above graphic, Junkies choose INFECTED as the new name. I, your humble servant (me, humble, now THAT is a laugh …) am following your wise contributions.

You guys had some AMAZING name suggestions, many of which I’ve filed away for future novels. So in ten years, when I have taken over the world, if you see your title on a Sigler novel (assuming, of course, you haven’t been cleansed by one of my takeover pogroms), you can throw me an email. Beers are on me.

Seriously, Junkies, we had 627 votes in less than 38 hours. Thank you for the fast response. If you’re behind the times on this story, I left the original post and call the comments in place. Just click “more” to read all about it. (more…)

Blow the dust off your synapses, kids. Remember ENDGAME, the Book Two: Deceit/The Rookie contest? My nemesis J.C. Hutchins and I announce the winners. Swag abounds!

Congratulations to all of the ENDGAME winners!

Direct link to the episode is here.

Okay, Junkies, we don’t bang on the charity drum very often (this is the first time), but when Hardcore Junkie Brian Thomas contacted me asking for some fundraising help, it was a no-brainer. Brian is running some ungodly marathon-thingee to raise money for Lupus research. He asked me to sponsor his effort, so the great folks at Shirts By Mail hooked us up with a custom silk-screened Junkies vs. Lupus shirt. Click on the movie link above to see the shirt, and to be tricked into hearing Brian’s pitch for support. That’s right, we trick you - don’t tell me you’re surprised. Donate if you like, if you don’t just check out the sweet one-off shirt.

-Scott-

KISSYMAN is a story I was inspired to write after reading “Devil in a Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley. This is not the hard-science horror stuff that is my bread and butter, but rather a hard-boiled detective style take on an illegal immigrant from another era in America’s history. No science (unless you count psychology), but it does, indeed, get us back on the “lots and lots of violence” tip.

Click here to download Kissyman.

SCREENPLAY CONTEST WINNERS

• Shua Mullikin
• Paul Crowe
• Anne Kelsey
• Paul Anderson

PROMOS PLAYED IN THIS EPISODE

• Cup Car Update (NASCAR)
• Podcast Pickle Review for Riches

So how attached can you be to an inanimate object? Turns out, pretty damn attached. This weekend, back in Michigan, I found out some rotten fucker stole my custom Carvin LB75 bass. I’m a lefty, and I play 5-string, neck-through basses, and there are very few of those in the world. Add to it that I saved for a year to buy this one, and had it painted in an obnoxious, sparkly “harlequin prismatique” finish, and you’ve got one rare bass. The guys at Carvin told me they made less than 10 of this same combination.

I will never get this gem back. I played over 100 shows with it, and it was my pride and joy for the longest time. I like unique things, and this puppy was unique. Under the stage lights, it looked like molten glass.

The serial number was 68706. That’s stamped on the base of the fretboard, right down at the body. If anyone ever sees an instrument like this, please, email me scott@scottsigler.net. The picture below is a close-up of an identical instrument, except that this one has black knobs while mine had silver.

Said theives also made away with an Ibanez RG7420-BPL left handed, 7-string guitar. Ibanez only made 50 of these. Hard to find left 7-string guitars with a tremolo - I found one, and now it’s gone as well. The serial number on that one is F0021555.

Fuck.

Junkies, here’s a little philosophical near-future sci-fi tale for ya. I’m a big fan of letting the punishment fit the crime, and for warning the public when a danger is present, but whenever you make an omelet of justice, you have to break a few eggs. I know, not that gory, but still dancing around the edges of acceptable science.

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“No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ” - Isaac Rosenfeld

PUBCRAWL:
Pubcrawl #2 is Friday, Aug 3, 8 pm at Jupiter Bar in Berkeley, CA.

SCOTT’S RECORDING RIG:
Many of you have asked me about my recording gear. Well I took some pretty pictures and mapped it all out for ya. So