Scott Carl Sigler is a contemporary American author

American literature

American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its early history, America was a series of British...

 of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 as well as an avid podcaster. Originally from Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 he now resides in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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 with his wife and their dog, Emma.

Biography

Raised in Cheboygan, Michigan

Cheboygan, Michigan

Cheboygan is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 5,295. It is the county seat of Cheboygan County....

 Sigler's father passed his love of classic monster films along to his son. His mother, a school teacher, encouraged his reading offering him any book he wanted. Sigler wrote his first monster story, "Tentacles", at the age of eight. Sigler didn't travel far for college having attended Olivet College

Olivet College

Olivet College is a coeducational, liberal arts college located in Olivet, Michigan, United States, south of Lansing and west of Detroit. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, and accredited by the North Central...

 (Olivet, MI) and Cleary 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, and currently as a social media strategist.

Use of technology

EarthCore was originally published in 2001 by iPublish, an AOL/Time Warner imprint. With the novel doing well as a promotional ebook, Time Warner was planning on publishing the novel. With the economic slump following September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Time Warner did away with the imprint in 2004. Scott then decided to start podcasting his novel

Podcast novel

The Podcast Novel is a literary format that combines the concepts of a podcast and an audiobook. Like a traditional novel, a podcast novel is a work of long literary fiction, however this form of novel is recorded into episodes that are delivered over the Internet, usually on a regular basis...

 in March, 2005 as the world's first podcast-only novel 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. Sigler was able to get EarthCore offered as a paid download on iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 in 2006. After EarthCores success (EarthCore had over 10,000 subscribers), Sigler released Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie, Nocturnal, and Contagious via podcast.

Pushing boundaries, Sigler released an Adobe PDF version of Ancestor on Monday 19 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

Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...

's best-seller list and #1 on Sci-Fi, Horror and Genre-Fiction on the day of release. Sigler is leveraging new media

New media

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...

 to keep in-touch with his fans, regularly talking with them using social networking sites, via email, and IM. Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article on March 1, 2007 by Andrew Adam Newman, 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

Parsec Awards

The Parsec Awards are a set of annual awards created to recognize excellence in science fiction podcasts and podcast novels. The awards were created by Mur Lafferty, Tracy Hickman and Michael R. Mennenga and awarded by FarPoint Media...

. In 2006 Sigler was a runner up for his short story Hero in the Best Fiction (Short) category and for Infected 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. In 2008 Sigler's Contagious, the sequel to Infected was listed at 33 on the New York Times best sellers list.

In 2008 Sigler broke through and won the Parsec Award for Red Man in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) category. He followed up with another win in 2009 for Eusocial Networking in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form) category. 2010 saw him continue to bring in the hardware in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) category with his podcast, "The Tank".

Influences

Sigler calls Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

 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." According to Sigler, Jack London

Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...

's "The Sea Wolf totally changed my views on life". Sigler saw King Kong (1976 version)

King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster movie produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic film of the same name, about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition....

 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."
Sigler has also stated that he is highly influenced by chlorophyll.

Books in print

• Scott Sigler, Phil Masters, Dean Edgell, Dana Edgell (1991) Champions Presents #1 ISBN 1-55806-123-1 Hero Games
• Scott Sigler (1998) Asp Technocracy (Silent Death, the Next Millennium) Iron Crown Enterprises
• Scott Sigler (1993) Shadows of the City ISBN 1-55806-181-9
• Scott Sigler (1997) Silent Death House Sigurd Archdiocese ISBN 1-55806-295-5 Iron Crown Enterprises
• Scott Sigler, Don Dennis (1997) Sigurd Archdiocese: Forces Book ISBN 1-55806-295-5
• Scott Sigler, (2005), EarthCore, ISBN 978-1-896944-32-6 Dragon Moon Press
• Scott Sigler, (2007), Ancestor, ISBN 978-1-896944-73-9 Dragon Moon Press
• Scott Sigler, (2008), Infected, ISBN 978-0-307-40610-1 Crown
• Scott Sigler, (2008), Contagious, ISBN 978-0-307-40631-6 Crown
• Scott Sigler, (2009), The Rookie, ISBN 978-0-615-28744-7 Dark Overlord Press
• Scott Sigler, (2010), Ancestor, ISBN 978-0-307-40633-0 Crown
• Scott Sigler, (2010), The Starter, ISBN 978-0-615-36542-8 Dark Overlord Press
• Scott Sigler, (2011), The All-Pro, ISBN 978-0-9831963-3-4 Dark Overlord Press
• Scott Sigler, (2012), Nocturnal, Pre-orders began online July 29th, 2011, Amazon.com

Podcast novels

• EarthCore (2005)
• Ancestor (2006)
• Infection (now 'Infected') (2006)
• Rookie, The (2007) , originally aired from September 25, 2006 to April 24, 2007.
• Nocturnal (2007), originally aired from Oct. 10, 2007 to December 18, 2008.
• Contagious (2008), now concluded.
• Ancestor (2010), originally aired from June 6, 2010 to February 13, 2011.
• Starter, The (2010), now concluded.
• All-Pro, The (2011), currently airing.

Theatrical adaptations

In May, 2007 the novel Infected was optioned by Rogue Pictures

Rogue Pictures

Rogue is a subsidiary of Relativity Media. The company has about 25 titles in its library.- Background :In 1997, Rogue Pictures was formed as a division of PolyGram Pictures but the name was dropped in 2000 after Universal Pictures bought PolyGram...

 and Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

 Films, however the option lapsed in April 2010. The short story Sacred Cow was made into an online only mini-film by StrangerThings.tv and was Stranger Things debut episode. "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.

Short stories

• "Seigeshire" "White Wolf Magazine
  White Wolf, Inc.
  White Wolf Publishing is an American gaming and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf Magazine, and was initially led by Mark Rein·Hagen of the former and Steve and Stewart Wieck of the latter. Since White Wolf Publishing, Inc. merged with...
  
  " Issue 21
• "Kumite" (1994) "Adventurer's Club Magazine" Issue 24
• "Number One With a Bullet" (1997) "Monsters from Memphis" anthology (ISBN 978-1-880964-21-7) , and "Bloodcast" feed
• "Chuckles Mulrooney, Attorney for the Damned", (2006) Episode 57, Escape Pod
  Escape Pod (podcast)
  Escape Pod is a magazine-style podcast launched on 12 May 2005 which presents stories in the genre of science fiction. It has been called "the world's leading science fiction podcast". Until his retirement in May 2010, the podcast was hosted by founder Steve Eley and edited by Jeremiah Tolbert...
  
   podcast
• "Hero" (2006) Episode 35, Escape Pod
  Escape Pod (podcast)
  Escape Pod is a magazine-style podcast launched on 12 May 2005 which presents stories in the genre of science fiction. It has been called "the world's leading science fiction podcast". Until his retirement in May 2010, the podcast was hosted by founder Steve Eley and edited by Jeremiah Tolbert...
  
   podcast
• "Bag Man" (2006) Episode 1, Pseudopod
  Pseudopod (podcast)
  Pseudopod is a podcast launched on 11 August 2006 which presents horror genre short stories. It is part of Escape Artists, Inc. which also podcasts Escape Pod and PodCastle. Pseudopod is currently edited by Shawn M. Garrett and hosted by Alasdair Stuart...
  
   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" feed

Future stories

• 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.
• Pandemic is the as-yet-unpublished third and final book in the Infected series.
• Descendant is the sequel to the smash hit Ancestor. Sigler has hinted towards the topic of the book on the Genada Webpage. The suggested topic is bioinformatics
  Bioinformatics
  Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
  
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• 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.
• The MVP is the as-yet-unpublished fourth book in the GFL series.

External links

• Scott Sigler's website
• Scott's Sigler's MySpace page
• Official Sigler Community website
• Sigler Discusses Podcast and Novel Marketing on The Polyschizmatic Reprobates Hour
• Video interview of Scott Sigler by Zadi Diaz of EPIC FU, weekly web show that covers online pop culture (July 22, 2008)
• Interview on the SciFiDimensions Podcast
• {http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/32/ Interview on the Twit.tv Podcast Network]