Click here to download TUESDAY TERROR #02: Neighbors Welcome back to Tuesday Terror! If you missed the first episode, Tuesday Terror is the new Junkie-spawned, fan-fiction anthology based in the Siglerverse. In Scott's novel INFECTED, Perry Dawsey is contaminated with triangular parasites which fall from the sky. He is forced to wage a war, both physical & mental, with himself. Today's story occurs tangential to INFECTED. "Neighbors" is written by Eddy Jones, edited and performed by Arioch Morningstar. Eddy is the author of the novel 7 DAYS and is currently working on the novel UPRISING. You can get a free PDF of 7 DAYS by going to his Lulu page. Some of you may know Eddy better by his Scott Sigler forum handle of ThMaggot. If you're a GFL fan, he's the kicker for the Bartel Water Bugs! Promos in this episode: • Paul Elard Cooley's Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Hardcover FIENDS Volume 1

This episode is brought to you 1800PetMeds.com/SIGLER. Flea and tick, joint medication, heartworm, Rymadil discounts and other brand-name medication, only at 10% off prices that are already less than what you are paying with this petmeds coupon code.

Oh snap! Check it out, folks. Is this the first-ever tat for the Wabash Wolfpack? This definitley gets the front-page treatment. Rand, you, sir, are one bad-ass mofo worthy of a John Tweedy salute. That tat is on his shin. His shin, dammit, because that's just how hardcore Rand is. Go Wolfpack!

Okay, so this isn't a bar joke. It is, however a fascinating comparison of woodpecker heads and the concussion problem facing NFL players (yes, I said "pecker" and "heads" in the same sentence, we'll wait while you giggle ...).

This is from the blog Cocktail Party Physics, this blog post written by Jennifer Ouellette.

If you've read THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER, you may know that concussions are a big deal in football. Concussions will play heavily in the future plotline of the GFL series. Read the article and see what you think, while at the same time discovering a bitching blog.

I haven't asked, but I think Jennifer roots for the Bartel Water Bugs.

Somehow, I know you clever perverts are going to rock this thread.

How about a list of "porn movie" titles for my books? Along the lines of A TALE OF TWO TITTIES, THE SEX FILES, BITANIC, A CLOCKWORK ORGY, etc.

Here's my first entry: COCKTURNAL

Wow! How spooky! Because half his face is in shadow, right? Wow, what a Spooky Horror Author!

Yes, this was my first "author photo," taken by my high school buddy Scott Eldridge when I was, um ... 23? 24? Come on, is there anything more cliché than a "Black & White Horror Author Face In Shadow?" Well, there is "Hands On The Face Very Important Scifi Author With Introspective Expression" photo, sure. Both are equally douchebaggy.

I was already well beyond the point where I should have started shaving my melon, but had not yet discovered the utter joy of a shorn scalp.

Don't be scared! It only looks spooky!

Junkies, check out the new order page. Let me know what you think.

As we've added books (we're up to five, with one more this year), it's become more and more difficult to show them all. We just got rid of our big table, where we tried to list all the foreign versions. I still want to list those, but not shure where to put it.

PS: The idea for the new page came from Junkies on Twitter. Thanks, y'all!

Holy shit, the sense of humor in Siglerism is sick, sick, sick. That's right, Molly McButter looking down on your little one. This is from a hospital. No. I didn't do it. But it might just be the work of a Sigler Special Agent. I can say no more!

How could I not share this? Best review evah!

You can write this book yourself, February 15, 2011
"You can write this book yourself, if your vocabulary consists entirely of the most vile words in the English language. Just take this premise: cows impregnated with engineered embryos, which turn into grizzly bear-sized life-forms, and eat everyone in sight. Not even bones are left, just massive amounts of blood. There is your first page. Now fill the rest of the book with misogynistic mania, and every rendition of the F-bomb imaginable. Title it "Ancestor". Done.

Thank you, Kathy! But you forgot the parts about drinking beer and Clayton laughing at his own farts. Come on, that's what makes it literature.

To celebrate the launch of THE STARTER podcast, we're tossing out a limited-time sale price on THE ROOKIE eBook -- just $2.99. What? Did he just say it's three frickin' bucks? Yes. Yes he did. A trio of Washingtons gets you the epic scifi/crime/sports mashup on your Kindle, your Nook, or any other device. Where can you get it?

• Buy from us for $2.99, via our partner BackMyBook (works for Kindle, Nook, Sony eReader, any ePub device such as iPad or iPhone and the iBook app)
• Get it on the Kindle store for $2.99
• Get it on the Nook store for $2.99

This is a celebration, and an experiment for Dark Øverlord Media. Within three hours of our price drop, THE ROOKIE was the #1 young-adult sports book on Amazon.com, and was the #2 sports book overall. While we were at it, we knocked THE STARTER eBook down to just $4.99. Get some while the gettin' is good!

Click here to download TUESDAY TERROR #01 Greetings my fellow Junkies! Thanks for checking out the premier episode of TUESDAY TERROR, a podcast of Sigler fan-fiction stories. These are not stories by Scott. They are written by Junkies just like you, and are about elements from all over the Siglerverse. We have two stories for you today: The first is "The Tot Tales: A Very Tweedy Christmas," a short story written by David Dysart. He is the PR Director for the student-run art and literary magazine of Crafton Hills College, The Sand Canyon Review. The magazine can be found on both Facebook and Myspace. This year’s edition is accepting open submissions of art, photography, short stories, and poetry until March 18. Please send all submissions to SCRsubmissions@gmail.com. Many of you may be more familiar with him by his Junkie handle here on SS.com, Avi. If you'd like to check out David on Twitter, he's @daviddysart. The second story is "Triangle Victim," a piece of flash fiction written and performed by Kate Cheevers. Most of you will know her better as phantom_reverie from the forums or @phantomreverie on Twitter. She also makes a bit of cash on the side piloting the Touchback for the Ionath Krakens. Please leave your thoughts about this new show and these stories in the comments below, and/or email the authors to let them know what you think. We look forward to hearing your feedback!

This one was sent to me by none other than ARealGirl herself. Fucking science ... how does it work?

Tuesday Terror is a Junkie created anthology based in the Siglerverse. These stories are not canon, which means they are not part of the official time line. Episodes will initially be released fortnightly. The show is hosted by Arioch Morningstar. If you want to submit a story, click on the "submission guidelines" box in the right-hand sidebar.

The theme music for Tuesday Terror is "Pandemic," by the band Separation of Sanity.

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As we continue in our riveting series of my checkered past, we dive into the college years. This is one of the few pics I have of my "band days" in college. Full-on goatee, and yeah, at one point I had long hair. I was playing bass in a band called "Kid Rhitalin." We named it thus because three of the four guys were on or had been prescribed for Ritalin. Hence, the picture above of me being a bit hyper is quite fitting.

The makers of Ritalin sent us a cease-and-desist letter, believe it or not -- after just one show. This is pre-internet days, so we're pretty sure some douchebag from the local drugstore saw a flier, and called the company. I begged the band members to keep the name, so we could get publicity, but I was out-voted -- seems they didn't want to take on Big Pharma. Go figure.

January was a big month for media coverage of your favorite Future Dark Overlord™. We had the cover of Writing Magazine, and also a good write-up in Locus. Locus is the magazine of the science fiction industry. Very cool stuff in there if you're a writerly type. I was part of a big feature on "SF in the Digital Age." The feature also focused Mur Lafferty, who had her name on the cover. That's right, our good friend Mighty Mur Lafferty on the muthafuckin' cover of Locus. Makes my nips all tingly and hard, I tell ya.

This is the second time I've been in Locus. I totally missed the first time, which was a review of ANCESTOR by Paul Witcover in the July, 2010 issue.

Junkie Jeff Mao sent me a fun challenge-for-charity event directly related to the Galaxy ... er .... the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's the ticket. So, you think you got what it takes to challenge the inellect of Drew Brees (a quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, my uninitiated friends)? Then bring it, bitch! Junkie Jeff sure is. Check out the press release below, then click on the RiceBowl logo at right to go to the site:

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Drew Brees Takes on Maine Students in Rice Bowl Challenge

The New Orleans Saints quarterback and student teammates to battle Maine laptop students in fighting global hunger
 
AUGUSTA – Super Bowl 2010’s Most Valuable Player Drew Brees and the United Nations World Food Program are challenging students and sports fans to team up for a different kind of bowl game this February, with the goal of beating global hunger.
 
Brees’ primary competitor? The student team led by students in the Maine Department of Education’s laptop program, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative.
 
The Rice Bowl Challenge is a week-long competition organized by the award-winning on-line vocabulary game, Freerice.com, in partnership with the Maine Department of Education’s Maine Learning Technology Initiative. New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees is the all-star of the competition, going head-to-head against thousands of students in Maine and across the country to answer trivia questions which earn grains of rice for the hungry.
 
Through their schools or on their own, students in Maine and across the country can enter the competition – as part of the Maine team or as part of Brees’ team. The Maine Department of Education has also teamed up locally with the Good Shepherd Food Bank to raise money for local food banks.
 
“Kids, using technology and networks, can change the world,” said Jeff Mao, the state’s director of learning technology.  “In education we talk a lot about making learning relevant and engaging. Here we have students using technology to learn, to raise food locally and globally, and to become more aware about international issues.”
 
The Maine Learning Technology Initiative provides professional development and 21st century tools to middle and high schools to help students meet Maine’s Learning Results standards and supporting equity of opportunity for all students. Maine was the first state to seize the potential of technology to transform teaching and learning in classrooms statewide, providing laptops to all students in grades 7 and 8, and making them available to high schools, about half of which are also participating.
 
During the Rice Bowl Challenge - February 6 through February 12 – players will compete to see who can tally the most correct answers to the game’s trivia questions, and thus earn the most grains of rice for the hungry. For every correct answer, ten grains of rice are donated through the World Food Program and paid for by advertisers.
 
Since taking the web by storm in 2007, Freerice.com has raised enough rice to feed more than 4.3 million people for a day.  More than 1,000 students raised over 2.4 million grains of rice in Maine’s first-ever rice challenge last year. This year’s event, with the help of Brees, will be much larger. The Department has put out the call and is aiming to recruit 100,000 students to battle for the Bowl in a public school event.
 
“In football, you need to play smart to win games. The Rice Bowl Challenge is all about playing smart to tackle hunger,” said Brees, who will be building his team through his well-established social media network. “Whether you join my team or the opposing student team, this is a cause worth winning.”
 
“The challenge is on,” said Nancy Roman, director of communication and private sector parnterships for the World Food Program. “With Drew Brees at the helm of the Rice Bowl, we have a fantastic opportunity to leverage social media networks across the nation and to see what an online community of hunger-fighting trivia fans can do in the fight against hunger.”
 
For more information about how schools and individuals can join the competition, go to www.maine.gov/mlti orwww.freerice.com/ricebowl.  Results will be tallied daily from February 6-12 and the top three scorers who rack up the most rice by February 12th win Drew Brees-autographed footballs.
 
 
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FreeRice.com is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Its designer, John Breen, developed the simple word game to help his teenage sons prepare for their college entrance exams and in March 2009 donated it to WFP. Driving the donation of rice are an average 40,000 players daily (1.2 million per month).
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.
 
WFP now provides RSS feeds to help journalists keep up with the latest press releases, videos and photos as they are published on WFP.org. For more details see: http://www.wfp.org/rss

 

 

Junkie Larimie Taylor did this sweet "Super Sigler" pic and sent it my way. Check out the chest logo. Nice, no? This is my supervillain costume. One of them, anyway. What? You called me a super "hero?" Go fuck yourself, you'll never eat lunch in this town again.

Laramie did this picture with his mouth. That's how he does his work, which is pretty kick-ass unto itself.

Want to see more of Laramie's work? Click here to see his site.

Check out the Greek cover for CONTAGIOUS, printed by Platypus Publications. Simple, stark, and kick-ass. Hats off to the designer.

And for you hardcore collectors, you can try ordering from this link, but I have no idea if it will work for you.

Click on the cover to see a biggah version over on the Flickr.

-FDO™-

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