Scott Sigler Slices: SLAY Season 2

StorySmack 4 - FOUR ROOMS

Happy New Year from the Future Dark Øverlord and the Director of Døøm! And, yes, the Dog of Døøm as well. To celebrate the incoming wonders that 2017 brings, we review the quirky New Year’s Eve anthology comedy known as FOUR ROOMS. Join us for a discussion of Tim Roth‘s masterful physical performance that ties together a shit-show of short films by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, and Alexandre Rockwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

StorySmack Episode #4 - Four Rooms

Happy New Year from the Future Dark Øverlord and the Director of Døøm! And, yes, the Dog of Døøm as well. To celebrate the incoming wonders that 2017 brings, we review the quirky New Year’s Eve anthology comedy known as FOUR ROOMS. Join us for a discussion of Tim Roth‘s masterful physical performance that ties together a shit-show of short films by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, and Alexandre Rockwell.

StorySmack Episode #4 - FOUR ROOMS

Happy New Year from the Future Dark Øverlord and the Director of Døøm! And, yes, the Dog of Døøm as well. To celebrate the incoming wonders that 2017 brings, we review the quirky New Year’s Eve anthology comedy known as FOUR ROOMS. Join us for a discussion of Tim Roth‘s masterful physical performance that ties together a shit-show of short films by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, and Alexandre Rockwell.

StorySmack Episode #3 - Die Hard Christmas Special

In this episode, we get into the muck of one of the world’s greatest, most enduring philosophical questions: is DIE HARD a Christmas movie? We also cover a shit-ton of tidbits, trivia, and facts about this enduring classic, including: Who was supposed to play John Mclane? Is this a sequel to a Sinatra flick? The book (yes, book this movie is based on). Which member of this cast served hard time? Which famous lion tamers were cast as bad guys? Does anyone in this flick actually s...

StorySmack Episode #3 - DIE HARD Christmas Special

In this episode, we get into the muck of one of the world’s greatest, most enduring philosophical questions: is DIE HARD a Christmas movie? We also cover a shit-ton of tidbits, trivia, and facts about this enduring classic, including: Who was supposed to play John Mclane? Is this a sequel to a Sinatra flick? The book (yes, book this movie is based on). Which member of this cast served hard time? Which famous lion tamers were cast as bad guys? Does anyone in this flick actually s...

StorySmack 3 - DIE HARD Christmas Special

In this episode, we get into the muck of one of the world’s greatest, most enduring philosophical questions: is DIE HARD a Christmas movie? We also cover a shit-ton of tidbits, trivia, and facts about this enduring classic, including: Who was supposed to play John Mclane? Is this a sequel to a Sinatra flick? The book (yes, book this movie is based on). Which member of this cast served hard time? Which famous lion tamers were cast as bad guys? Does anyone in this flick actually sprechen ...

StorySmack 2 - A NEW HOPE and THE FORCE AWAKENS

We’re off to see ROGUE ONE, and to celebrate, let’s talk Star Wars Smack! Many, many nerds have waxed endlessly how Episode IV: A New Hope (the original 1976 Star Wars flick), and Episode VII, The Force Awakens, are the exact same movie. Professor Sigler and the learned Doctor Kovacs delve deep into this comparison to give you a StorySmack diagnoses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

StorySmack Episode #2 - A NEW HOPE and THE FORCE AWAKENS

We’re off to see ROGUE ONE, and to celebrate, let’s talk Star Wars Smack! Many, many nerds have waxed endlessly how Episode IV: A New Hope (the original 1976 Star Wars flick), and Episode VII, The Force Awakens, are the exact same movie. Professor Sigler and the learned Doctor Kovacs delve deep into this comparison to give you a StorySmack diagnoses.

StorySmack Episode #2 - A New Hope and The Force Awakens

We’re off to see ROGUE ONE, and to celebrate, let’s talk Star Wars Smack! Many, many nerds have waxed endlessly how Episode IV: A New Hope (the original 1976 Star Wars flick), and Episode VII, The Force Awakens, are the exact same movie. Professor Sigler and the learned Doctor Kovacs delve deep into this comparison to give you a StorySmack diagnoses.

StorySmack Episode #1 - DOCTOR STRANGE

Scott and A get all mystical and chat about Doctor Strange.

StorySmack Episode #1 - Doctor Strange

Scott and A get all mystical and chat about Doctor Strange.

StorySmack 1 - DOCTOR STRANGE

Scott and A get all mystical and chat about Doctor Strange. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FridayFix Episode # : So Long And Thanks For All The Fish

If you’re a regular FridayFix aficionado, you may find this episode disturbing, shocking, and like a bullet to your very heart. Well, that’s overly dramatic, but shit, man, I’m a writer — hyperbole is my business. ARealGirl and I sit down to hash out the future of this ‘cast. Listen in.

FridayFix Episode # : Interview with PC and Kristen Cast

Scott and ARealGirl sit down with PC and Kristin Cast, bestselling authors of the HOUSE OF NIGHT series. How bestselling? How about 20 meelion books sold and counting? We cover how this mother/daughter pair operate as a writing team, their new book THE SMELL OF SALT AND SAND, PC’s new novel MOON CHOSEN, how both authors got signed and rose to fame, and much more!

FridayFix Episode # : Scott’s outtakes from THE RIDER

If you’ve followed the ‘cast for the past few years, you may have heard ARealGirl or our audio producer Iceberg talk about how I curse up a storm of frustration while in the recording booth. Recording the audiobook is the final stage of editing for us. When you read things out loud, they often sound different from how they read on a printed page. So you think you’ve written one thing, but when you read it out loud, you realize it’s not at all what you meant. While it’s a fantastic method f...

FridayFix Episode # : Scotty Doesn't Know, Episode #2

Actual answers below (hit “Continue Reading”): The second installment of this hard-hitting, Pulitzer-worthy show that has lots of newsiness baked right inside. I get asked five questions and give definitive answers, even if I have no idea what the actual answer is. PS: I shot this awhile ago and don’t currently have that luscious, manly beard, so enjoy the face-lettuce while you can. Click here to download the episode. This episode sponsored by our Moosejaw Coupon page, so gear thine k...

FridayFix # : Paul & Storm

Here’s another fun interview we did at DragonCon 2015, with Paul Sabourin and Greg “Storm” DiConstanzo, a.k.a. the comedy music duo “Paul & Storm.” These talented cats are wading neck-deep in nerd culture, having co-created the w00tstock tour and regularly performing with Jonathan Coulton, Adam Savage, Wil Wheaton and more. Want to hear how a couple of guys built a career as full-time entertainers? Listen in, sirs and/or ma’ams. PAUL & STORM’S SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook page Twitter

FridayFix Episode # : Scotty Doesn't Know, Episode #1

We make with the funny and try a new bit — the Director of Doom asks me five random questions and I give answers (whether I know what the hell is going on or not). Also in this video, please help me pick out my new Warby Parker frames by picking 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 in the comments! Click here to download the episode.

ALIVE Episode #22 - ALIGHT Sneak-Peek

ALIVE is over! Long live ALIGHT! This is the sneak-peek of ALIGHT, Book II of the Generations Trilogy and the sequel to ALIVE. It’s out April 5, 2016, but we have this clip of Scott reading it from SiglerFest 2015 last month.

ALIVE Episode #21 - Q&A

A Q&A about ALIVE, with questions submitted by fans from all over the world. Well over an hour, lots of interesting tidbits about ALIVE, the Generations Trilogy, my writing style, other books, and more.

ALIVE Episode #20

All the suffering, all the work, all the heartache — it all comes down to this final episode. In the final episode, Em and the Birthday Children face life and death, freedom … or eternal imprisonment.

ALIVE Episode #19

The Birthday Children fought the Grownups, and now Em has taken Matilda captive. She is forcing Matilda to reveal the location of the shuttle, the only way to escape the Xolotl. In this, the second-to-last episode of this serialized Audiobook, Em and her friends find out if there is a way to escape, or if they will be trapped here forever. 

ALIVE Episode #18

Em has had enough. No more being hunted, no more threats of being erased. She has rallied the Birthday Children to march on the Garden, ready to attack the Grownups on sight. She is going to find her people a way out of the Xolotl, and by Tlaloc, she will not let anyone or anything stop her.

ALIVE Episode #17

In the last episode, Em discovered her true purpose in life — to be a receptacle for a much older version of herself, a 1,000-year-old monster that created Em to be overwritten. Em refuses to be a victim, and she refuses to be erased. In this episode, she must rally the Birthday Children to face this horrifying reality, and prepare to fight back.

ALIVE Episode #16

In the last episode, Em found out the true nature of the inescapable dungeon that has held her and the Birthday Children. Brewer — the Grownup who claims Em murdered him — revealed this shocking information, leaving Em stunned beyond comprehension. Now, Em and the others try to come to grips with a shattering new reality.

ALIVE Episode #15

In a quest to find a weapon that can defeat the monsters who took Bello, Em has led her friends to a place that Bishop and Gaston discovered earlier — the place where Bishop found the spear. Those three, along with Aramovsky and El-Saffani, opened a strange door in the floor and are descending down a long ladder, into the darkness, into the unknown.

ALIVE Episode #14

The Birthday Children wound up right back where they started. While some wonder if supernatural forces are involved, Em chooses to focus on what she can actually control — finding a weapon that will help her people defeat the Grownups. That new pursuit is about to lead her down a nightmare path that will make everything she has seen thus far seem innocent by comparison.

ALIVE Episode #13

Somehow, the Birthday Children have wound up exactly where they started. In front of Em, a mystery — the coffin room she and her friends woke up in, the same room they walked away from. How can they be back? And is there any chance for escape?

ALIVE Episode #12

A rest, a brief peace, a critical break from the never ending stress — all of that evaporated in the last episode when something grabbed Bello and dragged her into the Garden’s underbrush. Now, Em must react — but can she save her friend?

ALIVE Episode #11

The Birthday Children have reached the Garden, but at such a cost. In this episode, the tension between Em and Aramovsky comes to a head. Is Aramovsky looking out for the spiritual well-being of the group, or is he trying to discredit Em as leader and push her out?

ALIVE Episode #10

After discovering food and water in the Garden, it should have been a happy occasion for Em and the kids. But then, tragedy befell Latu, and Em was the first to see what happens when people are left alone with hungry pigs. So this won’t happen to anyone else, Em and Bishop are in a race against time to get the rest of their people and bring them safely to the Garden.

ALIVE Episode #9

Em and the others were shocked to run into a pig. Desperate for food, the kids made the instant decision to kill it, but it escaped, biting Latu in the shoulder and badly wounding her as it did. Against Em’s orders, Bishop ran after the pig, leaving Em no choice but to follow him. They tracked the wounded animal to a room with something the kids have never seen before — plants, a dense thicket wall. The pig’s blood trail leads through a shallow tunnel gnawed through that thicket, so that’s w...

ALIVE Episode #8

Em has led the Birthday Children into a strange, broken-down area filled with coffins of a different kind — thin, white, heavily beat-up, and empty. Em, O’Malley, and Latu are looking in one set of rooms, Bishop and El-Saffani in the others. What they all find next will change their existence forever. 

ALIVE Episode #7

Em and her friends met Bishop and his crew. A brief, peaceful struggle for control of the Birthday Children left Em with the spear, a symbol of power. She now leads 23 other people through the halls, looking for a way out. They are also looking for food, and, more importantly, water. If they don’t find sustenance soon, Em knows her people will die.

ALIVE Episode #6

As the group struggles to deal with the fallout from Yong’s attack, they hear the first evidence that they are not alone — the sound of heavy footsteps marching in time. That sound is drawing closer. Will Em and the others finally find out why they’ve been put in this strange dungeon?

ALIVE Episode #5

In the last episode, Yong grew tired of wandering through hallways, finding nothing, and he challenged Em’s leadership. He attacked Spingate, then rushed at Em — and when he did, Em’s knife slid deep into his belly. In this episode, we learn of Yong’s fate: will he survive, or will he become just another pile of dust-covered bones? 

ALIVE Episode #4

Em, Spingate, O’Malley, Belo, Yong, and Aramovsky are trying to come to grips with their desperate situation. They woke up in coffins. Six other coffins in the same room contained shriveled corpses. Why? Who were those dead kids? What is this strange, dust-covered room? In the last episode, they finally managed to open the heavy stone doors that kept them trapped inside. Now, for the first time, they leave their room and set out to find answers.

ALIVE Episode #3

Em and Spingate have escaped their coffins, and managed to open two more — one holds the sleeping K. O’Malley, while the other contains the dead body of B. Brewer. Eight more coffins remain unopened. In this episode, Em and Spingate find out how many coffins contain potential friends and allies, and how many contain shriveled corpses.

ALIVE Episode #2

M. Savage woke to a nightmare — trapped in a coffin, alone, unable to remember anything about her past. She fought her way free only to find herself in a room full of coffins. One of those coffins contained another girl, trapped just like her. In this episode, the blood-streaked pair try to make some sense of their situation.

ALIVE Episode #1

This is the first episode of ALIVE, the serialized audiobook version of the hardcover/eBook/full-length-audiobook that will be out July 14 from Del Rey Books. This is Scott’s sixteenth free, unabridged podcast novel. This one is narrated by Emma Galvin. We hope you enjoy it, and spread the word!

So You Wanna Be A Writer Episode #1: How to Write Your First Novel

Of all the questions Scott gets asked over and over, at every con, every book reading, and every day by DM or Facebook message or email … among the most frequent is “What advice do you have for me? How do I become a writer?” In this video, he tells you how he did it. Anyone can write a novel. Didn’t go to college to learn literature, etc? Doesn’t matter. Your idea is just as valid as anyone else’s. Scott will tell you how to write your first novel.

FridayFix Episode # : Pierce Brown

Author of Red Rising trilogy talks writing process, screenplays, Hollywood, and being an "overnight success" Pierce Brown’s first novel RED RISING was a smash hit. While touring to support GOLDEN SON, the second book in that series, Pierce visited the Empty Set studios to talk about his books, his career, and to answer questions sent in by his fans. Scott already reviewed the book, but with Pierce in town, we wanted to jibber-jab to entertain your faces. If you’re a creative type, this i...

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FridayFix Episode # : 2015 Con Schedule

We’re coming at you a bit early in the week for the FridayFix™, but we’ve got important things and stuff to discuss! In 2015, our convention schedule will switch up a bit, as we will be participating in Phoenix ComicCon this year! They have a great literary track, and after meeting Lee Whiteside at San Diego Comic Con last year, we’re going to check it out. And we’re pretty excited. That means we will not be at Balticon this year. Those cons are a week apart, and it only makes sense time...

FridayFix Episode # : Empty Set 2014 Year In Review

It’s the holidays, suckas! And with it comes year’s end, and with that comes our annual rambling-ass Year In Review. The two gasbag partners in Empty Set Entertainment combined to bring you an hour and twenty minutes of blabby-blab about the books we published, the tours we toured and the anthologies we anthologized — and also the new addition to the fam, our lovely little Dog of Døøm. Did we mention how long this episode is? Listen at your own risk. And, we did our top-four stories of 2...

FridayFix Episode # : Shiz Happens

It’s the holidays, and that means family and what-not. It also means things popping up out of nowhere like schedule-destroying demons, hell-bent on ruining all yer carefully crafted plans. Yep, happens to us like it happens to everyone else, so how do we handle that? My lifelong buddy Rob Otto. We were born on the same day, same year, so — obviously — we’re twins! How about you, Junkies? What kind of things popped up during your holiday season to scuttle your schedules?

FridayFix Episode # : The State of the Empty Set Store

Been poking around the Empty Set store this Black Friday?  If you have, and you’re looking for swank GFL t-shirts, you might notice our selections are dwindling. We’ve had a few emails and comments lately about how there are slim pickings in the store as far as t-shirt sizes go, and I don’t disagree. That said, several folks notice that there are only smalls and mediums of some t-shirts, and think we’re discriminating against folks of a different size.  That’s where I disagree of course.  ...

FridayFix Episode # : Origin stories

This is ARealGirl, and we’re back with another round with Evo Terra, founder of Podiobooks.com, and Sheila Dee, author of THE ROOKIE Curriculum Guide. They helped get another show pre-recorded so I’d have time to recover. How’s my tonsillectomy recovery going? Well … slowly, I guess. Seems I’m doing fine, and I mostly feel okay. That is, until I have to swallow. For any reason. That stinks all the stink. But otherwise things are good. Today I even ate solid food for the first time since la...

FridayFix Episode # : Friends, beers, irrational fears

On this week’s FridayFix we’re lucky to have our good friends Evo Terra and Sheila Dee join us. They came to San Diego for a visit, and sat down to talk irrational fears. Why, you ask? This was recorded last weekend, and yesterday I had a tonsillectomy. It went well, straightforward with no complications, but back on Saturday night, I didn’t know all of that. I just knew I was scared with some reasonable fears, and some … less so. So listen first, then cheer me up by telling me about you...

FridayFix Episode # : T-Shirt poll results!

We polled and we pondered. We discussed at the Office of Doom. And we’ve decided which designs we’re moving forward with, even if not all of them will make it to an actual t-shirt. We’re in a terrific spot: so many good ideas, we’ve got to see art on more than expected! Right now, we’ll print a new Krakens t-shirt, plus one each of the non-Krakens designs and the non-GFL designs. Which ones? Sorry, you’ll have to listen to the ‘cast. Don’t worry, it’s only ten minutes long! Ten minutes!