THE MVP pre-order!

Click on the image above to pre-order your copy of THE MVP, Book IV of the GFL series. Hurry! Someone else is getting a lower number than you. For the love of all that's holy, hurry!

FridayFix™: THE MVP pre-order is TOMORROW!

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Here we go Krakens, here we go (clap-clap!). It's almost on Junkies! The pre-order for THE MVP, Book IV of the GFL series starts tomorrow, February 4, 2012 at 9:00am Pacific Time.

THREE-MINUTE EPISODE RIGHT HERE!

Listen in for a few final notes about the site and what you'll see/do/buy tomorrow. This time it's even shorter than my last MVP-related FridayFix™.  Still  totally worth it. And, unlike last time, *this* time there might really be bunnies on the podcast!

NOTE: PayPal might give you a warning tomorrow when you go to buy the book. It's okay, it's just PayPal looking out for you. We've tested through that warning and it's fine. Click through and get your goods. 

(Disclaimer: still no bunnies.)

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You Humans and your goddamn magic rooms

All right, I know that I'm old. I know this. I'm 98 in "dog years," which we all realize is an arbitrary number assigned by "the man" to keep my people down. How come nobody talks about our civil rights, huh? Got an answer for me, smart-guy?

I didn't think so. You all are too busy laughing at goddamn cats that are too stupid to spell correctly. Since when is laughing at retarded cats an acceptable form of behavior? Idiots.  

Anyway, I have a bone to pick with your kind, and not of the delicious milk variety (Purina FTW!). What the hell is up with your goddamn magic rooms? A door opens. I walk out of the hall into a room. The door closes. A few seconds later, the door opens ... into another hall! Black-magic chicanery, that's what I call it.

So here's my problem: sometimes I can't remember which part of the magic room is supposed to open up. Oh, that's my fault? Listen, asshole, you're the ones that build this crap, it's not my fault that I don't know which side of the magic room is going to magically open into Magic Land. Did I mention I'm 98 in dog years?

And my smart-ass "pal," Scott. What a douche, taking a picture of me from the open door of the magic room while I stare at a wall. How the hell was I supposed to know it was just a wall??? Huh?!

Humans ... someday I will bite you all. 

Meelion Word Update: January 2012

Um, this is harder than I thought ...
My boasty-boast New Year's Resolution to write one million new words in 2012 is off to a rocky start. That's my writing ego in the picture, taking a punch from Captain Reality. 

I started off on fire because I was cranking out the first draft of THE MVP (which goes on pre-sale right here on this site on Super Bowl Saturday, Feb. 4, 9am PT, noon ET, 5pm GMT). When I finished THE MVP, I puttered around a bit reveling in my glory. Well, glory (and FIFA 2012) doesn't pay the bills, folks. I had a bunch of zero-word days and discovered those are unacceptable if I want to accomplish this crazy goal. 

MONTHLY CALCULATION
• I wrote 61,777 words in January.
• I need to write 83,333 words a month to make 1,000,000 for the year
• I am now behind 21,556 words.

DAILY CALCULATION
• I averaged 1,993 words a day (8 pages)
• I am off of the required pace by 1,007 words per day (4 pages)
• To catch up in February, I need to write 2,976 (if I write every day in Feb) + 1,007 (to make up for January deficit) = 3,983 words a day (that's 16 pages a day)

Impossible? Hardly. Difficult? You bet your country ass it is. I have had plenty of 5k+ days in my career, but an entire month of 4k days is a biggun. Hopefully, I can carve into the deficit in February and finish it off in March. 

THE ALL-PRO Episode #14

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THE ALL-PRO Episode #14

It's opening day in the GFL! Teams tear into each other in hopes of taking that first step toward the Galaxy Bowl title. Quentin leads his team onto the home turf of Ionath Stadium to do battle against the Isis Ice Storm. Can Quentin overcome the galaxy-wide points-shaving scandal and grab victory in front of 180,000 screaming Krakens fans? 

THE MVP PRE-ORDER IS COMING!
Mark it on your calendar, folks:SuperBowl Saturday, Feb. 4, 9am PT, noon ET is yourchance to get a low Advertisementnumber on the signed, numbered, limited-edition hardcovers of BOOK IV in the Galactic Football League series. 

PROMO IN THIS EPISODE:
HELL WATCH by Laramie Taylor (a.k.a., "Laramie the Gimp" here on the scottsigler.com forums).

FridayFix™ GFL T-Shirts!


Ladies & gentlemen, please allow me to introduce our new in-house designer, Scott "Big Fish" Pond. And since we wanted to announce Big Fish in a Big Pimpin' way, feast your eyes on four brand-new GFL team T-shirts. Sha-ka-paaaaoowww! These were designed by Scott, and now you can buy them. Click on the shirt you want, put that thang in your cart, and when you're done ordering all you want just check out (a.k.a., give us your moneys).  

We have small, medium, large, XL, 2XL and 3XL. Since we are in pre-order, if you need a special size (teeny or big), we can hook you up, just email ARealGirl with your request.

GFL influencing future NFL uniform design?

Well, I also invented the internet, so who knows?
Here's a very cool article I stumbled across thanks to a link from science secret agent Tom Merritt. Business Insider showed off "crazy, science fiction-y uniform designs" in a recent post, and damn if these things don't look like the GFL come to life. Let's go ahead and admit it -- the GLF is slowly infiltrating the world of football, and things will never be the same.  


Click through to see if your team gets a uniform rave-up. The picture above of the concept art for the Washington Redskins. Hmmm, six feathers, three on the right, three on the left ... does this design resemble a certain team from Ionath, or is it just me?

Maybe it's just me ...

Oh, snap! Look who's online!

A stalkerrific tool for you stalkertastic Junkies
Check out the big brain on Brad! And "Brad," in this case, is the BackMyBook guys who created this site (but you already knew that). Some new features just rolled out, including a nice little tool to let you know which of your fellow Junkies are online. See the image in the upper right-hand corner, where you log in? A new link there tells you how many registered Junkies are online. It doesn't represent how many people are on the site in total, just the registered users. Cool, no? 

You can also now make "user comments" directly to a fellow Junkie. If you're going to say "howdy" to each other, or get into a side conversation with many back-and-forth responses, this is a great way to do it. So, if you're trading comments on a blog post and those comments go off-topic, consider taking the conversation "offline" in this way -- you still get to talk about that new pair of curly-toed shoes, and the rest of the Junkies can focus on the topic at hand. 

Audible doesn't want indie authors? Too bad for them.

You can have my free podcast when you tear it from my cold, dead hands
Scott's blog I feel compelled to respond to Evo Terra's blog post about Audible Creation Exchange, or ACX. Evo Terra runs podiobooks.com. He has been at the forefront of free, serialized audiobooks (also known as "podiobooks") since 2005. Podiobooks.com offers audiobooks that are almost exclusively narrated by the author. 

Please read his post, but in a nutshell, here is what it says:
  • Audible Creation Exchange (ACX) is part of Audible.com, a place to buy and sell downloadable audiobooks.
  • ACX, on their own website, says they are actively seeking authors that want to record their own audiobooks. "Your book, your voice."
  • ACX positions itself as a champion of the little guy with website text like this: "Too many authors have been left out of the quickly growing and culturally repositioned digital audio market. Until now.”
  • Evo wanted to let ACX sell the nearly 600 audiobooks available on podiobooks.com, if the individual authors wanted to do the deal.
  • ACX has told Evo, in no uncertain terms, that they will not sell an audiobook that is also available for free.
Click through to read my full response to this and get my thoughts on Audible's myopic efforts to control content and take choice away from the customer, because you obviously aren't smart enough to make your own decisions. 
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THE ALL-PRO Episode #13

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THE ALL-PRO Episode #13

Along with the glory of professional sports, there comes the heartbreak of the "final cut," when teams release players that didn't make it on the roster for the regular season. Quentin watches as the Krakens finalize their 2684 roster, and says goodbye to friends and teammates.
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Quentin also confronts Don Pine about the Galaxy Sports feature story by Yolanda Davenport, the story that paints Quentin as a villain -- because he's taking the blame for Don's choices. Will Don step up and be accountable?

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PROMO IN THIS EPISODE:
THE ANGEL HUNTER by Jerrod Begora

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