This post is about being happy, productive and successful in your creative life.
I put that topic sentence right up front because this is a long post, worth reading for all creatives (but especially you writer-types). This post is about my “scoring system,” which I devised to help me from tearing my own eyes out from […]
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I am in no way, shape or form an expert on firearms.
I write about guns extensively in my work. Not having a background in law enforcement or the military, and not coming from a “firearm family,” when I began writing my knowledge of guns was limited to what I’d seen on TV and in […]
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Yes, I hear some of you looking at the headline and saying: “If you’re on vacation, you shouldn’t be working at all.” Imma guess anyone saying that is not a writer. You do you, but take it from this fine feathered friend — a writer’s gotta write.
I recently had the amazing good fortune to go […]
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This book is a beast. Seven hundred pages of tiny, tiny type, it’s like a SONG OF FIRE AND ICE novel on steroids.
WARNING: Do not approach this book unless you are a fan of Star Trek: The Original Series.
If you are a fan, though, or are an aspiring TV writer, I think this book […]
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Did you know that certain skin tone descriptions can piss some people right the fuck off?
We contracted a new editor to do the copyedit for my scifi/thriller EARTHCORE (out Nov. 29 in print, eBook and audiobook). This editor did a solid job. She’s quickly getting the hang of my particular style and the Siglerverse as well […]
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“Are you a magician? Because baby, whenever I look at you
everyone else just disappears.”
Oh, sorry, that’s my pickup line. This here blog post is about opening lines, i.e., the opening lines of my novels.
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Thousands of people read my books. (Quick aside: that phrase still rattles my melon — thousands of people read my books. Livin’ the dream, boss.)
But in any large enough population, you get groups of people who look at the exact same thing and see something completely different. People tend to imprint their worldview upon what they experience. […]
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The ALIVE podcast novel is complete. Hurrah! Another book added to the list of Tales Told By Scott. But this time, we tried something different.
The Internet is always a-changing. If you don’t change with it, you get left behind. When I started serializing my audiobooks in March of 2005, the concept of a podcast was so new it […]
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July 14 is coming. No avoiding it. What’s the big deal about that day? Oh, nothing, much, just the launch of my new freaking book that I’ve been working on since 200-and-freakin-8.
Woah. Lemme take a break before John Cusack starts shaking me about and screaming “you must chill!”
Yes, ALIVE is done. It’s at the presses […]
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My new novel ALIVE is coming out in less than a month. That means advance copies have gone out, and the first batch of online reviews have come back. Most of the reviews are great (happy boy!). Some — as is to be expected — not so much. A few of the 1-stars are downright […]
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Chuck Wendig is an author and a fancy-pants blogger. His publisher asked me to blurb his upcoming novel ZERØES. At first I was all, “fuck that guy,” because Chuck Wendig, then I noticed the empty set symbol in the title. Well, since ARealGirl and I not only named our company […]
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If you recall, ma’ams and/or sirs, Empty Set Entertainment currently has two properties optioned for TV series. NOCTURNAL is being developed by Lloyd Levin (producer of HELLBOY, DIE HARD 2, THE WATCHMEN), and INFECTED is being developed by Timberman/Beverly Productions (JUSTIFIED, ELEMENTARY). What, you say? You have two series in development? Yes. We are fat […]
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I am a lucky dude who has a bunch of fans who read everything I put out. You all rock. Your farts aren’t stinky, they actually smell like roses. You will live forever in big castles with big giants protecting the gates. I know this. Is pravda.
When people finish the Scott Sigler catalog, I […]
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Last week, I began the re-write of my novel EARTHCORE. The first step of this journey, of course, is to create a new document (I use Scrivener for my writing). I needed to import the most-recent version of the story into this document, as this is a re-write rather than […]
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After working on a book for almost two years, having your biz partner go over it, two copy editors go over it, having a dedicated continuity editor go over it, and then reading it out loud for the audiobook, some mistakes still get through. And when the mistake is as butt-hurtin’ as the one below, […]
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Boom! I say, I say, boom!
This is one of the best feelings in the biz, people — sending off a completed manuscript to an editor. We’re ballparking Summer 2015 for this release, but I can’t say for sure until the editor at Del Rey does his thing.
This is effectively the final draft, as he […]
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