INFECTED

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Bill Miller finally tracks down Perry Dawsey, and finds that his best friend has seen better days. Dew Phillips responds to Perry's internet plea for help, but will he get there before Perry takes off?

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Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 51-55

IN THIS EPISODE:
Margaret and Amos discover "the arches." Perry gets back on the Internet again, and that smells like bad news. Murray Longworth gets involved, and most importantly, it turns out Perry's triangles have friends ...

Click here to download INFECTED Chapter 45

Real proud TechTard™ moment for me, Junkies. I forgot to include Chapter 45 in the episode labeled "INFECTED Chapters 41-45." So, here it is. Many apologies for the storytelling inconvenience!

Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 46-50

Perry has a run-in with his neighbor, Al Turner. Maybe this is a good time for Al to just mind his own damn business? Bill Miller should also be mindin' his own, but he wants to know what's up with his best buddy. Perry's internal monologue gets stranger and stranger ...

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.

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.

Junkie N8man broke the story here, so I talked to Crown Publishing and we are forced to reveal the SMOD™.

That's right, Junkies, Perry Dawsey is back when CONTAGIOUS hits bookstore shelves on December 30. The Secret Mission of Death™ has been me busting ass on the manuscript, because Crown pushed up the publishing date from May, 2009 to December, 2008 to take advantage of the momentum you all generated for INFECTED. That cut five months off my writing time, hence the need for the SMOD™ to meet an aggressive deadline. I'm not done yet, but it's going well.

Oy, I'm so under the gun I can't even figure out my own viral marketing sites. I was never that good a puzzles, anyway. The publishing company Hodder & Stoughton put together some fun stuff for the July 10 release of INFECTED in the UK. Want to help promote the book? Post this link to your site with a typical "what da heck is this all about?" approach.

http://www.epidemiologyconference2008.com/

We've crushed the United States and Canada, and now we invade the UK!

PS: If you can figure out the damn puzzle, let the other Junkies know with a comment, just don't give away the solution in the blog comments so other people can have fun.

Click here to download INFECTED Chapters 39-40

IN THIS EPISODE:
Margaret, Amos and Otto have a run-in with a new infected victim, and for this one, playtime is no joke. Perry continues his intellectual debate with the Starting Five.