Contest: Design the P.U.V. James Keeling
Posted July 4th, 2008 by scottsigler
How much do I appreciate all y'all junkies? Enough to turn over a key part of my fiction to you, and have a contest to see who can design the P.U.V. James Keeling, also known as "The Crypt."
Click here to learn about designing THE CRYPT.
I did a panel at Book Expo America with this cool cat named Derek Powazek (how cool? His whole frickin' arm is a tat of a giant squid). He is the founder of a site called Pixish.com, which lets you set up contests for visual images. I thought it was a great idea for opening up fiction illustration to the people who really give a shit -- the fans.
This is an experiment, and you have to register at Pixish.com. Don't cost nuthin'. The site supposedly handles all the elements of the submission process and the contest, so let's give it a shake down and see what nasty space visions the Junkies can come up with.
Oh and if you're not artistic but have a cool idea, feel free to get help from your non-Junkie friends.
Patriotic Monsters? Happy Fourth!
Posted July 3rd, 2008 by scottsigler
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It's Thursday, which means time for another blog post over at AMC TV. This week I crank up "Hail to the Chief" on the iPod and talk about why Monster-Americans love their country. Click on the link and go find out what makes America such a great place ... for homicidal monsters and killer aliens (yeah, I mean besides the ones from Detroit).
No NOCTURNAL this week, enjoy a good laugh instead. Even Kong (a naturalized citizen) is firing up the 4th of July barbecue. Get over there and comment!
PS: Delivered fifty pages of CONTAGIOUS to Crown Pulbishing today. Not done by a long shot, but getting closer to finishing it up so I can focus on NOCTURNAL and THE CRYPT.
SMOD™ = PERRY DAWSEY IN DECEMBER
Posted June 30th, 2008 by scottsigler
Junkie N8man broke the story here, so I talked to Crown Publishing and we are forced to reveal the SMOD™.
That's right, Junkies, Perry Dawsey is back when CONTAGIOUS hits bookstore shelves on December 30. The Secret Mission of Death™ has been me busting ass on the manuscript, because Crown pushed up the publishing date from May, 2009 to December, 2008 to take advantage of the momentum you all generated for INFECTED. That cut five months off my writing time, hence the need for the SMOD™ to meet an aggressive deadline. I'm not done yet, but it's going well.
World's first German podcast novel? EARTHCORE free in Deutsch
Posted June 29th, 2008 by scottsigler
World Conquest: Here we have the US-Canadian hardcover of INFECTED, the hardcover German translation of EARTHCORE, and the UK paperback of INFECTED, which will be in supermarkets and finer porn shops everywhere in the UK on July 10.
Click here to visit the
German podcast of EARTHCORE
I'm not sure if this is the world's first German-language podcast novel, but I'm going to claim it is until someone corrects me. I'm modest like that. In fact, I'm going to get nutty and claim this is the first-ever non-English podcast novel! World Conquest continues unabated.
Richard Levy is an English Junkie (from Derbyshire) who now lives in Germany (Schorndorf) and took it upon himself to podcast EARTHCORE. He's using the German version of EARTHCORE, translated by Michael Krug and published by Otherworld Verlag (and available in hardcover by clicking here).
EARTHCORE is read by Torsten Fuchs, who is just fucking awesome. I don't understand a word he says (except a strange reference to "struedel") but I could listen to him all day. I cue up the episodes and let them run in the background while I write. Music is provided by the band Gebrueder-Roehrich. Rock on, mein freund!
I think this is pretty kick-ass. If you have German-speaking friends, please turn them on to this podcast. Richard is busting his buns to produce this bad boy, so if you know some people lets get them listening in. And, of course, it's free.
Mookie the Violent: 1994(ish)-2008
Posted June 26th, 2008 by scottsigler
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 Mooks in Kraken's Hat: She did not like wearing the hat. She went out and killed a cougar after this shot, she was just that pissed.
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Junkies, it's a suck-ass day. Mookie the Violent has checked out. You know "those people?" The ones who don't have kids, who show off pictures of their dogs as if the dogs were kids? That's the Evil Queen and I. We have absolutely no perspective on life. We are dog people to the hilt. I've been around dogs my whole life, learned to walk months early by grabbing ahold of the tail of our lab-mix "Coachie Boy" and standing as he walked away, pulling me up. In my life, I've had Coach (a family dog), Bunner (the first dog that was truly mine), Booger (dad's dog, hung out with Bunner), Dizzy (who met an untimely demise on a highway), and then Mookie the Violent.
Mooks showed up on my doorstep one day in 1994. I was 25, and like a dumb-ass, I started putting food bowls on the porch for her. And, of course, I let her in the house. She slept in the exact same place that Dizzy had slept, and I was already hooked. One day Mooks stopped coming around. I went to every Humane Society in the area, and found her in one. She was in a cage so small she couldn't turn around, and a Humane Society dude was washing her off with a pressurized hose. She was yelping, shivering, scared out of her mind. He was probably a volunteer and a great guy, and did not need me threatening to break his fucking neck, but at that point I knew that dog was coming with me. I adopted her, and for the past 14 years that dog went with me everywhere. When I was a single guy in my twenties, this dog basically lived in my car -- everywhere I went, she went. She loved the car, it was like her kennel, and she always knew I was coming back in an hour or so. The back seat had a blanket, water, toys, it was a little slice of doggy heaven. |
triangularum mechanicis?
Posted June 25th, 2008 by scottsigler
Oy, I'm so under the gun I can't even figure out my own viral marketing sites. I was never that good a puzzles, anyway. The publishing company Hodder & Stoughton put together some fun stuff for the July 10 release of INFECTED in the UK. Want to help promote the book? Post this link to your site with a typical "what da heck is this all about?" approach.
http://www.epidemiologyconference2008.com/
We've crushed the United States and Canada, and now we invade the UK!
PS: If you can figure out the damn puzzle, let the other Junkies know with a comment, just don't give away the solution in the blog comments so other people can have fun.
NOCTURNAL Episode #29
Posted June 24th, 2008 by scottsigler
Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #29
Punnett Diagram for Marie's ChildrenIN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan goes for a ride with the Jessups. Chief Zou lays down the law, but wihtout all that pesky legal code. Doctor Stone Mason and Robin finally nail down the genome of Marie's Children.
NEXT EPISODE:
Still dealing with the SMOD™ and the Future Dark Dog is in bad days. So don't expect the next episode of NOCTURNAL for 2-3 weeks. Quit yer bitchin', I'm going as quick as the speed of light will allow.
INFECTED Chapters 39-40
Posted June 22nd, 2008 by scottsigler
Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 39-40
IN THIS EPISODE:
Margaret, Amos and Otto have a run-in with a new infected victim, and for this one, playtime is no joke. Perry continues his intellectual debate with the Starting Five.
Ze Germans release ze cover: INFIZIERT
Posted June 22nd, 2008 by scottsigler
NEWS:
Junkies, I'm back from the SMOD™ retreat. Did it go well? How about 260 pages of new stuff for your asses? What's the project? I can't say. When will you have it in your hot little hands? I can't say. But in the mean time, the in-between time, take a gander at the cover of the German-language version of INFECTED. Pretty bad-ass, I'd say.
And if you Sprechen Sie Deutsch (that is, if you speaks the German), you can pre-order a copy by clicking here. The book will be out in November, and I'm working on hitting the UK and Germany at that time to promote. It's a self-funded trip, so yeah, I'll be crashing at your place.
WHERE THE HELL IS NOCTURNAL EPISODE #29:
Where is it? It's right on time, as always! I expect to post NOCTURNAL Episode #29 on Monday, June 23.
INFECTED Chapters 35-38
Posted June 9th, 2008 by scottsigler
Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 35-38
IN THIS EPISODE:
Perry's infection gets a mind, and a voice, of its own, while Dew finds the remains of Kiet Nguyen and his victims.
WRITING RETREAT:
Junkies, I'm off for 10 days to bang out 50,000 words on the SMOD™. Still can't talk about it! I hope all is well with this episode, I'm scrambling to get things done.
