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Scott Sigler | |
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.jpg) Sigler at the San Diego Writers Festival 2025 | |
| Born | Scott Carl Sigler Cheboygan, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Olivet College Cleary College (BA,BS) |
| Genre | Science fiction,Horror |
| Literary movement | The Podiobook (Podcast Novel) |
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Scott Carl Sigler is an Americanauthor ofscience fiction andhorror and apodcaster. Scott is aNew York Times No. 1 bestselling author of twenty novels, six novellas, dozens of short stories, and thousands of podcast episodes. He is a co-founder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his young adultGalactic Football League series. He lives inSan Diego.
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Sigler was born and raised inCheboygan, Michigan, where he inherited a love of classic monster films from his father. His mother, a school teacher, encouraged his reading, offering him any book he wanted.[1]
Sigler wrote his first monster story, "Tentacles, Tentacles & More Tentacles," at the age of eight.[2] Sigler attendedOlivet College (Olivet, MI) andCleary College (Ann Arbor, MI), where he earned a BA in Journalism and a BS in Marketing. Sigler has had a varied career path, having worked fast food, picking fruit, and shoveling horse manure, as well as working as a sports reporter, director of marketing for a software company, software startup founder, marketing consultant, guitar salesman, and played bass guitar in the post-hardcore band The Transfer.[3][4][5]
EARTHCORE was originally published in 2001 by iPublish, an AOL/Time Warner imprint.[6] With the novel doing well as a promotionalebook, Time Warner was planning on publishing the novel. With the economic slump followingSeptember 11 attacks, Time Warner did away with the imprint in 2004. Scott then decided to startpodcasting his novel in March, 2005 asthe world's first podcast-only novel[7] 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.[8][9] Sigler was able to getEARTHCORE offered as a paid download oniTunes in 2006.[10] AfterEARTHCORE's success (EARTHCORE had over 10,000 subscribers[11]), Sigler releasedAncestor,Infected,The Rookie,Nocturnal, andContagious via podcast.[12]
Sigler released an Adobe PDF version ofAncestor in 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 No. 7 on Amazon's best-seller list and No. 1 on Sci-Fi, Horror and Genre-Fiction on the day of release.[13][failed verification] Sigler is leveragingnew 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, which was covering authors using podcasting innovations to garner a broader audience.[14]
In March 2014, Executive Editor Mark Tavani at Ballantine Bantam Dell bought World Rights to a science fiction trilogy by Sigler. In the first book,Alive, a young woman awakes trapped in a confined space with no idea who she is or how she got there. She soon frees other young adults in the room and together they find that they are surrounded by the horrifying remains of a war long past ... and matched against an enemy too horrible to imagine. Further adventures will follow in two more books,Alight andAlone. The books will be published under the Del Rey imprint.[15] On Wednesday, July 15, 2016, it was announced that Alive made No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list in the Young Adult E-Book category.[16]Sigler callsStephen 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." According to Sigler,Jack London's "The Sea-Wolf totally changed my views on life". Sigler sawKing Kong (1976) 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."[relevant?]
Sigler has been a runner up in both the 2006[17] and 2007[18]Parsec Awards. In 2006 Sigler was a runner up for his short storyHero in the Best Fiction (Short) category and forInfected in the Best Fiction (Long) category. In 2007 Sigler was a runner up forThe Rookie in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novel Form) category.
In 2008, Sigler won the Parsec Award forRed Man in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) category.[19] He followed up with another win in 2009 forEusocial Networking in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form) category.[20] 2010 saw him continue to win in the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) category with his podcast,The Tank,[21] and in 2011 he again took out the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form) category withKissyman & the Gentleman.[22]
On July 31, 2015, Scott was inducted into the inaugural class of the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas.[23]
Sigler resides inSan Diego,California with his wife and dogs.
In May, 2007 the novelInfected wasoptioned byRogue Pictures andRandom House Films;[25] however, the option lapsed in April 2010.[citation needed] The short story "Sacred Cow" was made into an online only mini-film byStrangerThings.tv and was Stranger Things debut episode.[26] "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.
In 2010, work began on agraphic novel adaptation of Sigler'sInfected.[27] The first issue was released August 1, 2012,[28] but the series was put on hold indefinitely due to delays with subsequent issues.[29]
GraphicAudio has produced full cast dramatizations for the following Sigler titles:
