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Post by marianne on Apr 21, 2010 22:15:42 GMT
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Post by Chirugal on Apr 25, 2010 22:46:30 GMT
Ooooh - looks like an interesting genre he writes in! Looking forward to chatting with him!
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Post by marianne on May 5, 2010 11:52:08 GMT
Scott will be visiting June 10-12th, 2010. Bookmark the date.
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Post by Chirugal on May 5, 2010 22:30:04 GMT
Awesome!
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Post by scottsigler on May 19, 2010 19:15:39 GMT
Howdy! Looking forward to my Guest Q & A in June!
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Post by Chirugal on May 19, 2010 21:52:33 GMT
Welcome in, Scott! I've uploaded your avatar for you. Looking forward to picking your brain!
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Post by marianne on Jun 6, 2010 0:10:47 GMT
Scott will be visiting in the next twenty four hours, so I'm kicking off things with a warm welcome and and a 'how the hell are you?'.
Now to hit you with a couple of questions!
Please, can you give us a brief rundown on your new football series, and what inspired it?
and...
Tell us about Dark Overlord Media. You've got a whole company 'thing' going here which not a lot of writers really compute. Can you tell us how it came about and how the manager/writer relationship works.
MDP
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Post by JM on Jun 6, 2010 7:37:43 GMT
Welcome to the board Scott. You seem to have been abducted into a realm of tough questions, we try to take the difficulty level as high as it goes so i hope you are ready.
Here's a one from me anyway, i'm not in a completely sane state at the moment so this could go either way:
You took a very obscure method to get recognised as an author (self publishling a full novel as podcasts) most readers of the current few generations wouldn't recognise this technique for passing on a story to the public since it really hasn't been done since the days of douglas adams (rip). Did you follow his example and the examples of the pre-tv radio age when you took what was really quite a gamble on losing such a large piece or did you decide to go podcast first and then work off that past style? Did you anticipate that it would end up giving you such a boost to your fame or was it really just to see what would happen?
Okay it was two questions, and probably not very original but i'll see if i can put together a few more.
innatemalk
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Post by trentj on Jun 6, 2010 7:38:24 GMT
Hi Scott,
That's an amazing book trailer you have for Ancestor. How long did it take to produce?
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Post by bexta on Jun 6, 2010 8:46:34 GMT
Hey Scott... I loved the Ancestor trailer! When you're writing something so intense, what do you like to surround yourself with/read/watch/listen to to keep you in the groove?
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Post by marianne on Jun 6, 2010 22:31:12 GMT
Hi guys, my mistake starting thing off so early. Scott will be in on the 10th June - in a couple of days time. Hold fire and keep checking back.
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Post by scottsigler on Jun 10, 2010 6:16:42 GMT
Howdy all, Big thanks to Marianne for the invite. Looking forward to spending a few days in the line of fire, so to speak. I'm good. Busy as hell, tired as hell. But very good. I'm working on the June 22nd release of the ANCESTOR hardcover in North America, and the final edits on THE STARTER. North American tour for the book starts on June 22nd as well. Please, can you give us a brief rundown on your new football series, and what inspired it? I like to say the Galactic Football League Series is "Star Wars" meets "Any Given Sunday" meets "The Godfather." It's American Football set 700 years in the future, where different alien races play different positions based on their biology. I grew up in a football family. My dad was a coach for his whole career, and now that he's retired, he's the assistant coach for my brother's high school team. I feel very strongly that team sports, and especially football, are the great equalizer. Learning to be part of an effective team is a lesson I come back to over and over in my own life. Lessons I learned in sports growing up. Tell us about Dark Overlord Media. You've got a whole company 'thing' going here which not a lot of writers really compute. Can you tell us how it came about and how the manager/writer relationship works. It's simple: Dark Øverlord Media is the publishing company that is putting out the GFL series, and it's also my umbrella management company. My partner, A Kovacs (yes, her first name is just "A", she blames her hippy parents) is a professional project manager, and has a complimentary skill set to my own. I know it's a rarity for writers, but it's a much more familiar concept for musicians and actors. We work much the same way. We're partners in the company: I "own" the creative side, and A "owns" the organizational side. On my own, I am much more easily distracted by new creative ideas. With someone managing my output, especially someone who thinks in a more linear way than I do, it's much easier to stay focused on the work at hand. Writing can be a solitary thing. It's terrific to have someone I trust as a sounding board. Plus, it's motivating to have an obligation to A to finish my current project or story. We were just talking today, and I realized that since we started working together in early 2009, I've never been more productive, finishing work on three hardcover novels, one novel length story and two novellas. When I think of it like that, I wish I'd met A years ago.
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Post by scottsigler on Jun 10, 2010 6:29:12 GMT
Welcome to the board Scott. You seem to have been abducted into a realm of tough questions, we try to take the difficulty level as high as it goes so i hope you are ready. Hi Innatemalk, I am ready … bring it on. (And nice to "meet" you.) You took a very obscure method to get recognised as an author (self publishling a full novel as podcasts) most readers of the current few generations wouldn't recognise this technique for passing on a story to the public since it really hasn't been done since the days of douglas adams (rip). Did you follow his example and the examples of the pre-tv radio age when you took what was really quite a gamble on losing such a large piece or did you decide to go podcast first and then work off that past style? Well, I certainly did think of the old radio dramas when I started my first podcast, for EARTHCORE. Providing a compelling story in an episodic way, that would (hopefully) generate reader/listener loyalty was clearly a page of the that playbook. But I mostly did it because it hadn't yet been done. When I first found out about podcasts I went looking for novels. I looked for a few days before it hit me that I couldn't find any because they didn't exist. As soon as I realized that, it was a race to get my story out there. Did you anticipate that it would end up giving you such a boost to your fame or was it really just to see what would happen? I certainly hoped it would lead to bigger things, but at the time I was putting out there in a new environment, to see what would happen, what we could make out of it. I had spent years trying to get published by the traditional route, and just decided to go straight to the end listener, and give them the choice to listen or not listen based on how good the work was.
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Post by scottsigler on Jun 10, 2010 6:34:48 GMT
Hi Scott, That's an amazing book trailer you have for Ancestor. How long did it take to produce? Hi Trentj, happy to hear you liked the trailer. We shot the live footage in mid-February, and have been working on it since just about then. The director (a terrifically talented guy named Aaron Proctor) worked with a great CGI team and editing team, and the whole thing was finalized on the day we posted it, which was last Friday, June 3rd. I think if we'd all had fewer obligations (we were quite a busy crew) it would have taken about 3 months to put it all together. In any case, I'm happy folks seem to be enjoying it.
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Post by scottsigler on Jun 10, 2010 6:48:07 GMT
Hey Scott... I loved the Ancestor trailer! When you're writing something so intense, what do you like to surround yourself with/read/watch/listen to to keep you in the groove? Thanks for the question Bexta, and I'm happy to hear you also enjoyed the trailer. After all that work, it is good to know. Whatever I'm writing, there's always a playlist that develops. Music is a big part of my writing and my life in general. For ANCESTOR, there were even "theme songs" that developed for the main characters. I listen to heavy stuff, mostly, but there still a soundtrack for the work. I watch movies and tv more for distraction than for mood, but I don't get a lot of time these days to watch much of it at all. And it helps to have my dog that needs walks at least twice a day, so I get out in the sun.
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