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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.

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.

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.

Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 31-34

IN THIS EPISODE:
Perry heads for the hospital while Margaret has a showdown with the CDC. In the end, Perry is finally slated for surgery. In a manner of speaking, anyway.

SMOD™ UPDATE:
The Secret Mission of Death continues. It's big. Big like a pickle. And no, I still can't talk about it. I'll give you a big fat hint -- it involves a book.

Madsen boogie: Check out this movie clip which is part of a scene in Episode #28Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #28

CONQUERED NATIONS
USA	Canada	England	Ireland	Scotland	Australia
Germany	Netherlands	Wales	Japan	Russia	Taiwan

JUNKIE-CHARACTERS IN THIS EPISODE:
Steve Staples a.k.a. Guitarsla	Brad "BigEnglish"Wheeler a.k.a. bradley_paul_wheeler	Owen Kieffer-Jones a.k.a. Owen	Gretchen Howell a.k.a. BikeGirl

First of all, wishing the best on this Memorial Day to any of you who have lost a loved one in the service.

A big triple-whammy hit home this week to delay the episode. First, I was the Toastmaster at the BayCon scifi convention in Santa Clara, CA. Good times! I introduced myself as "the toastiest thing this side of a Denny's breakfast bar," and the good times just rolled from there. I can say with a straight face that I had a few beverages at a Klingon party, then stood in the hall I designated as "the tough part of the hotel" and screamed "just keep on walkin'!" to the people in bad fairy costumes, then finished the night with a live performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show by "Barely Legal." Two in the morning comes with a price tag, my friends.

BayCon occupied me through Monday night. Second part of the double-whammy? NOCTURNAL Episode #28 looks like it will be over an hour of pure story. I've been recording and editing all friggin' day. Seven hours straight.

The third wammy? I have a tight deadine for the first draft of CONTAGIOUS and have to write that at night, no exceptions. When I don't have a NOCTURNAL episode due, I'll be writing CONTAGIOUS all day.  

So, NOCTURNAL Episode #28 will post on Wednesday, May 27.  

Click here to download Siglerism News for 5-21-08

Another messy blast of news to satisfy your need for Siglerism. No story content, so this is like watered-down beer to a hardcore alkie, but hey, at least it's a taste and maybe enough to keep you going until the weekend.

SHOW NOTES:
Lots of stuff in this news episode, including
• The Sigler Store is now open with cool collectible stuff: >Click here
• All Sigler podcasts now available on iPhone, PSP and smart phone: >Click here
• New interview with the FDO™ available at SciFiDimensions.com

• MOVIE for CHUCKLES MULROONEY, ATTOURNEY FOR THE DAMNED:
Check out this movie. A fifteen-minute long, stop-animation movie of my short story. Just awesome stuff. You won't believe how much work went into this bad boy.

> Click here: To get the original short story that ran on EscapePod.org.
> Click here: To watch Part One of Chuckles Mulrooney
> Click here: To watch Part Two of Chuckles Mulrooney

• PARSEC AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN:
The Parsecs are the "Oscars" of fiction podcasting. The submission form is a bit complicated (thanks to n8man for pointing this out), so here's a step-by-step process:

• Step 1: Copy this address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/scottsigler
• Step 2: >Click here to go to the nomination form
• Step 3: Paste in the URL from Step 1 into the field labeled: Podcast RSS Feed URL:*
• Step 4: Check all the boxes on the right for which you'd like to nominate, from the stories listed in the table below, then hit "Submit"
• Step 5: On the next page, click "Add New Comment."
• Step 6: Fill in your info, and tell them what stories you're nominating 

Click here to download the OBSIDIAN poster
(this is NOT an audio file, people)

OBSIDIAN: I hate Hutchinsss ...

Now you guys know that I am at war with J.C. Hutchins. Actually, we have a truce at the moment while I deal with Julie Andrew's attack on Siglerism. So that baby-faced bastard had the audacity to take advantage of this Andrews-induced detente and asked me to do a story for his OBSIDIAN/7th SON project. At first, I said "no." Actually, what I said was "you go fuck yourself, J.C. Hutchinsss!" Then, Pope Siglericus piped up with a thought -- the best way to hurt someone is to take what they love most. So, I agreed to provide Hutchinsss with an OBSIDIAN short story in order to steal the spotlight from his whole project. I wrote a real hum-dinger, too. Now you guys know that I would never brag, but this is some of the best short fiction I've written yet. Actually, it's like 9,000 words, so it's a novella.

Now I'm not the only guy helping out with this. Do the names Lafferty, Morris, Nemcoff, Stackpole, and the nipple-pierced felch-monster known as Matt Wallace ring any bells? Enough talk: >click here to learn more about OBSIDIAN.

Will you like my OBSIDIAN story? Well, do you like combinations of:
1. Mutants
2. Insects
3. Violence
4. Finger snippage
5. The FDO™ single-handedly solving all the world's energy problems?

If you like three or more of these things, you are mine.

Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 28-30

IN THIS EPISODE:
Perry deals with the aftermath of his first home surgery. Dew reaches out to his daughter, trying to reconnect with the motivation for doing what needs to be done. Margaret and Amos brace themselves for a sit-down with the big man himself, CIA Deputy Director Murray Longworth.

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE OF INFECTED:
• Huffington Post covers INFECTED's "give away the book for free" strategy
• NPR Commentator Tom Dodge reviews INFECTED for the Dallas Morning News

Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #27

IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan Clauser visits Robin Hudson, and delivers the blanket that was wrapped around Aggie's "baby." Bryan also delivers two other samples, and needs Robyn to test all of them for the Zed chromosome.

Russian gangster Pavil "Fat Boy" Rockmanov was wounded in the gunfight between Dmitri Vasillof and Frank Lanza. Pavil needs medical attention, but will that lead to trouble for Gennady Ivanovich, Vassilof's right-hand man?

John "Black Mister Burns" Smith finishes his report on the historical murder rate of San Francisco, and delivers that report to Pookie Chang -- hint, the news is not good.

JUNKIE-CHARACTERS IN THIS EPISODE:
Yvone Escajeda a.k.a. Vegidragon	Bryce Hidysmith a.k.a. Someone	Dr. Derek Sheldon a.k.a. Space_Mouse

PODCASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
• Classic Tales Podcast by B.J. Harrison: the hit free classic literature
• Singularity podcast novel by Bill DeSmedt: a hard-science thriller
• UC Radio - Mike Yusi's podsafe rawk music show