Hey all, I just got back from the last two stops of the 13-city Sigler Stank II book tour to promote my hardcover horror novel CONTAGIOUS.

People asked many questions about writing, podcasting, the publishing biz, but the questions that kept coming up were about Addictive Comics, Mark Hester’s THE ROOKIE graphic novel adaptation on AC.com, and BLACK JACK JUSTICE on AC.com. There seems to be a serious underground buzz about Addictive Comics and our podcast-to-graphic-novel strategy.

To be honest, I feel the same way I did after the first few months of podcasting EARTHCORE back in 2005 — that is, I feel like we’re really onto something here. Now that BLACK JACK JUSTICE finished the first “episode” and we have one complete title (there’s more BJJ to come, don’t worry), Mark and Paul and I know we can do this, we will do this, and you can expect dozens of titles and hundreds of free pages in 2009 and 2010.

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Are you digging THE ROOKIE graphic novel? Did you listen to the free podcast (over at www.scottsigler.com/therookie)? Well then, get ready for the next iteration of this unique scifi story — a Hardcover Novel.

The full, unabridged text from the podcast, PLUS a gorgeous, embossed cover, PLUS eight color plates inside showing aliens, team uniforms and logos, PLUS a full galactic timeline, PLUS some extra content on the GFL.

Woah! Thats’ a big package.

On April 25, 2009, we’ll start taking pre-orders for THE ROOKIE in hardcover. Why April 25? Why, because that’s NFL Draft Day! That’s right, you can make Quentin Barnes your #1 draft pick.

The book will ship in late August, and be at your home for the kickoff of the 2009-2010 NFL regular season. Aw, snap! That’s good marketing.

While I have a print deal with Crown Publishing (a division of Random House, the world’s largest publisher), I’m putting out THE ROOKIE by myself. Crown isn’t interested in this football/scifi/crime mashup, but they have no problem with me printing it and selling it from my website at www.scottsigler.com.

We’re only printing 3,000 copies, so mark you calendars and keep checking back to see more of Mark Hester’s awesome ROOKIE artwork — trust me, when April 25 draws near, we’ll be blabbing about the hardcover nonstop. When those 3,000 copies are gone, that’s all she wrote, so this will be a great collector’s item.

-Scott-

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