1. Scott Carl Sigler is an American author of science fiction and horror and a podcaster.
19 Facts About Scott Sigler
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Scott Sigler is a co-founder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his young adult Galactic Football League series.
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Scott Sigler was born and raised in Cheboygan, Michigan, where he inherited a love of classic monster films from his father.
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Scott Sigler attended Olivet College and Cleary College, where he earned a BA in Journalism and a BS in Marketing.
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Scott 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.
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Scott Sigler 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.
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Scott Sigler considered it a "no brainer" to offer the book as a free audio download.
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Scott Sigler was able to get EARTHCORE offered as a paid download on iTunes in 2006.
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Scott Sigler released an Adobe PDF version of Ancestor in March 2007 through Scott Sigler's own podcast as well as others.
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Scott Sigler is leveraging new media to keep in-touch with his fans, regularly talking with them using social networking sites, via email, and IM.
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Scott Sigler was featured in a New York Times article on March 1,2007 by Andrew Adam Newman, which was covering authors using podcasting innovations to garner a broader audience.
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Scott Sigler soon frees other young adults in the room and together they find that they are surrounded by the horrifying remains of a war long past.
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Scott Sigler saw King Kong when he was a little kid.
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Scott Sigler has been a runner up in both the 2006 and 2007 Parsec Awards.
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In 2006 Scott Sigler was a runner up for his short story Hero in the Best Fiction category and for Infected in the Best Fiction category.
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In 2007 Scott Sigler was a runner up for The Rookie in the Best Speculative Fiction Story category.
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In 2008, Scott Sigler won the Parsec Award for Red Man in the Best Speculative Fiction Story category.
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Scott Sigler followed up with another win in 2009 for Eusocial Networking in the Best Speculative Fiction Story category.
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On July 31,2015, Scott Sigler was inducted into the inaugural class of the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas.