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Getting reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle is, in my opinion, a big fucking deal. San Francisco is a HUGE book town. They even have an event called "LitQuake" that brings thousands of people to the streets of the Mission district for a marathon session of author interviews and readings. It's like a Lollapalooza for books.

So when my Google alert (read also: one of my many vanity searches) popped up this morning with a review by the Chron, I was excited and nervous to open it up. Reviewer Michael Berry clearly did not like INFECTED, but he gave it a fair shake and didn't beat it up too bad. The review reads like I'm a first-grader who don't spell so good, but he tries hard so the teacher gives him a silver star (but no smiley face, those are reserved for the smart kids).

Unlike most reviews, this one is open for comments, so feel free to swing over there and leave your feedback.

Click here to read Michael Berry's review of INFECTED. 

Click here to download an excerpt of LITTLE BROTHER

Here's a tasty treat for you, a 30-minute piece of Cory Doctorow's new novel LITTLE BROTHER. Now you guys all love my free audio, and my free PDFs, and this is one of the people to thank for paving the way. Doctorow is the Mac Daddy of the online fiction world (he might also be the Daddy Mac, but I have to check for name rights with Kris/Kross, 'cause they make me wanna jump-jump).

Junkie likey?

- Buy LITTLE BROTHER on Amazon.com

- Visit Cory's website (with the oh-so-cool name of Craphound.com)

- Or just check out the insane links of C-Doc, Mark Frauenfelder and Xeni at BoingBoing.net

iPhone screenshotStep right up! Step right up! Get your Sigler content on iPhones right here!

That's right, Junkies, thanks to Pulsar, RobbieT and especially Drew Domkus of Dawn & Drew fame, we now have the most awesome tool to get your Sigler goodness right on your iPhone, smart phone or PlayStation Portable.

Just click on the picture at left, or go right to www.scottsigler.com/iphone.

It looks like poop in a browser window, but on your phone or PSP it looks like the gates of heaven themselves, swinging open to grant you 27 virgins (that comes straight from Pope Siglericus XXX, and he knows this shit!). 

 

Awwww yeah, let the conquest of the entire planet move to Phase II. Soon, General Siglerisimo will release his map of world conquest (taken from the Fisher Price "My First Pogrom" kit), but for now, feast your peepers on the cover of the UK edition of INFECTED. It's trade paperback, and will be available on July 10, 2008.

What's that sound, England?

That is the sound of the General Siglerisimo war machine! That is the sound of DOOM!

Click here to download Siglerism News for April 24, 2008

BigBrotherTV: A Junkie starts a news show and talks about the FDO™, of course!Time to get caught up on the news, Junkies. No story content in this episode. Instead, we talk about:

• New book reading on May 1 in San Mateo, CA, at "M Is For Mystery" bookstore
• We talk about the sales of INFECTED through the first two weeks
• Mark Jeffrey's new sequel to The Pocket & The Pendant: The Two Travellers
• Free stuff coming from the Kingpin of Free Fiction, Cory Doctorow
• German EarthCore trailer (just scroll down and look for the big black screen with the non-English words ...)
• BigBrother TV (link in this episode)
• A Junkie wants to Kill Alzheimers Dead.
• How things are going with CONTAGIOUS, the sequel to INFECTED.

Day-yum this is sweet! The German publisher of EARTHCORE just posted a trailer to YouTube. You say you can't find a copy of EARTHORE for less than $65? Well, problem solved, all you have to do is learn to speak another language. Your FDO™ has always got your back.

Oh, you already speak German? Than click here to order ze book! Schnel! Schnell!

Booklamp.org is a new site that promises to help you pick books you will like, based on a statistcal word analysis of books you already like. Watch the video on the site, this sounds like something all book lovers would just adore. It's beta, they only have a couple of hundred books in there, but see if you dig it, and while you're at it submit INFECTED as the next book they will put into the database. On the submission form, you want to include INFECTED's ISBN number of 0307406105.

Click here to download a PDF of Seth Harwood's JACK WAKES UP

You guys know I like to promote other podiobook authors. No one out there works it harder than Seth Harwood, the Sleestack-sized writer from the San Francisco Bay area. He's been giving his books away as podcasts for two years now, and the first of his babies, JACK WAKES UP, is now in print.