In March 2014, Executive Editor Mark Tavani at Ballantine Bantam Dell bought World Rights to a science fiction trilogy by Sigler. Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article on Maby Andrew Adam Newman, which was covering authors using podcasting innovations to garner a broader audience. Sigler is leveraging new media to keep in-touch with his fans, regularly talking with them using social networking sites, via email, and IM.
Ancestor was released on Apto much internet hype and, despite having been released two weeks earlier as a free ebook, reached #7 on Amazon's best-seller list and #1 on Sci-Fi, Horror and Genre-Fiction on the day of release. Sigler released an Adobe PDF version of Ancestor in March 2007 through Sigler's own podcast as well as others. After EARTHCORE's success ( EARTHCORE had over 10,000 subscribers ), Sigler released Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie, Nocturnal, and Contagious via podcast. Sigler was able to get EARTHCORE offered as a paid download on iTunes in 2006. Having searched for podcast novels and finding none, Sigler decided to be the first. Sigler considered it a "no brainer" to offer the book as a free audio download.
Scott then decided to start podcasting his novel in March, 2005 as the world's first podcast-only novel to build hype and garner an audience for his work. With the economic slump following Septemterrorist attacks, Time Warner did away with the imprint in 2004. With the novel doing well as a promotional ebook, Time Warner was planning on publishing the novel. A full-time author, he now resides in San Diego, California with his dog, Reesie.ĮARTHCORE was originally published in 2001 by iPublish, an AOL/Time Warner imprint. 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. Sigler attended Olivet College (Olivet, MI) and Cleary College (Ann Arbor, MI), where he earned a BA in Journalism and a BS in Marketing. Sigler wrote his first monster story, "Tentacles, Tentacles & More Tentacles," at the age of eight. His mother, a school teacher, encouraged his reading, offering him any book he wanted. Raised in Cheboygan, Michigan, Sigler inherited his love of classic monster films from his father. He is the co-founder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his young adult Galactic Football League series. Scott is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of sixteen novels, six novellas, and dozens of short stories. Scott Carl Sigler is an American author of science fiction and horror and a podcaster.
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