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Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 41-45

IN THIS EPISODE:
Perry's neighbor can't mind his own business. More bad things happen inside Perry's body, while Margaret & Co. see some artistic endeavors of another infection victim.

Hi guys, it's the RDQ here. anyone written any Sigler fanfic out there? i am thinking of starting a Sigler Fanfic Podcast where i read stories from the SiglerVerse, and i welcome all submissions from anyone who would like their tale read by my luscious and sultry voice.  please email all ideas and submissions to Maebreakall@gmail.com Thanks!!! :-D

Time for my weekly Thursday blog post over at AMC TV. This time I address the nightmare that his horror musicals. You won't believe some of the crap they are kicking out on stage these days. I don't care, when monsters randomly break into song and dance, that pisses me off. And no, I am not even a fan of Joss Wheden's musical crap.

So get over there and leave a comment. Scifi writer John Scalzi is another blogger for AMC, and he is just flat-out kicking my ass in readership and comments. Is he in cahoots with Julie Andrews? Don't let the White Queen win! 

Click here to download NOCTURNAL Episode #30

SFGH Showdown: This is where Bryan & Rex throw down.IN THIS EPISODE:
Bryan and the Jessups race to San Francisco General Hospital to rescue Savior from Rex, Sly, Pierre and Sucka.

DESIGN THE CRYPT:
>Click here to learn how you can design the warship in Scott's new scifi/horror novel.

The Sigler Ascension landed in the UK last week. We're off to a body count of over 2,000 in the first week, which is awesome! If you're in the UK, Australia or New Zealand, go get your copy and belp make the body count climb.

We got some amazing ink in an article in The Independent newspaper. They brought back that awesome "Digital Dickens" nickname ... a nickname created by a Junkie, I believe?

Also got the most flattering review yet in the Sacramento News & Review. It's just online, but if we drive enough trafffic there they may put it in the 85,000-circulation print version.

HOW CAN I HELP MY FUTURE DARK OVERLORD?
Two small tasks for today.

1. >Click here to read the story in The Independent. Email it to as many people as you like to help drive the story up the ranks, which will get it into the "most read" chart on the side and result in more people being exposed to Siglerism (and if you know Digg.com, >click here to Digg the story!).

2. >Click here to go to the amazing review at the Sacramento News & Review. Leave a comment. We get enough comments, maybe they run this thing in the print section.

THE STATE OF PODCAST FICTION
A podcast called SciFi Surplus just had an interview with Mur Lafferty to discuss the state ofpodcast fiction. >Click here to listen in. This has to be the single most comprehensive coverage of what's going on in the space that I've heard yet. It's a long show, but they edit out any breathing room and change topics so fast it's like an ADD newscast.

Yes, it's true, today I shipped off the first draft of CONTAGIOUS to Crown. "The Shiv," my editor, is sharpening his knives as we speak. This was a huge step in getting the book to stores on the projected December 30 date. Now The Shiv and I go to work tearing that manuscript to pieces and gluing it back together again. Hopefully it comes out a little better than Michael Jackson's face, which followed a similar process.

This means Episode #30 of NOCTURNAL will be out soon. I have to step away from CONTAGIOUS for a little bit, just to clear the head and see what hath Pope Siglericus XXX wraught with fresh eyes.

I really, really, really appreciate everyone's patience (and complete lack thereof as well) for NOCTURNAL 29, 30, 31 & 32. I will be working my Evil Heiny™ off to make it worth your while.

It's Thursday, and that means blog time over at AMC TV. I take a good look at the monsters in Hellboy II and we see that some famous mo-fos are double-dippin' in the sweet, sweet cup of Hollywood goodness. There's also a few cats (like Alf) finally getting work after years of obscurity. So get your Junkie asses over there and leave a comment.

How much do I appreciate all y'all junkies? Enough to turn over a key part of my fiction to you, and have a contest to see who can design the P.U.V. James Keeling, also known as "The Crypt."

Click here to learn about designing THE CRYPT.

I did a panel at Book Expo America with this cool cat named Derek Powazek (how cool? His whole frickin' arm is a tat of a giant squid). He is the founder of a site called Pixish.com, which lets you set up contests for visual images. I thought it was a great idea for opening up fiction illustration to the people who really give a shit -- the fans.

This is an experiment, and you have to register at Pixish.com. Don't cost nuthin'. The site supposedly handles all the elements of the submission process and the contest, so let's give it a shake down and see what nasty space visions the Junkies can come up with.

Oh and if you're not artistic but have a cool idea, feel free to get help from your non-Junkie friends.

It's Thursday, which means time for another blog post over at AMC TV. This week I crank up "Hail to the Chief" on the iPod and talk about why Monster-Americans love their country. Click on the link and go find out what makes America such a great place ... for homicidal monsters and killer aliens (yeah, I mean besides the ones from Detroit).

No NOCTURNAL this week, enjoy a good laugh instead. Even Kong (a naturalized citizen) is firing up the 4th of July barbecue. Get over there and comment!

PS: Delivered fifty pages of CONTAGIOUS to Crown Pulbishing today. Not done by a long shot, but getting closer to finishing it up so I can focus on NOCTURNAL and THE CRYPT.

Novel: Agent to the Stars
Author: John Scalzi
Rating: Five out of five Siggies

I had just finished FIGHT CLUB and was rolling in the glee of finally finding a novel that I didn't bitch about, I just enjoyed the crap out of it. That filled my book karma quota, which usually means the next three or four books are going to either suck balls or just be so-so.

I picked up AGENT TO THE STARS at Book Expo America. I read Scalzi's OLD MAN'S WAR not too long ago and loved it. AGENT was free (a galley copy, no royalty for you, Scalzi, sorry about that) so I put the dog on the leash and dug in.

Was it possible to go two-for-two with friggin' awesome books? Apparently, it was. Scalzi writes fantastic dialogue. Funny, intelligent, full of the little digs that bounce back and forth between you and good friends. It seems clear he had fun writing this, maybe as much as I had reading it.

AGENT is a fun book. If you liked my short story CHUCKLES MULROONEY, ATTOURNEY FOR THE DAMNED you will love AGENT.  

The premise is simple -- aliens finally visit Earth, but theare not the cute E.T. variety. They are smelly gelatanous blobs. They hire a Hollywood agent to introduce them to humanity, to figure out how to show people an alience race that looks far more like snot than Alf. Aliens, snot, Hollywood agents -- you can see the hilarity begin to add up.

Having just lost a dog, I found the dog scenes in Agent to be fantastic. Loved this book. Loved it, loved it, loved it.