Ah, you fancy pro authors.

Getting paid to put out books and stories and whatnot.

You know everything about the publishing biz, right?

Wrong old fishbreath.

We have asked a bunch of pro authors about things they wish they'd known before getting published,

including Delilah Dawson, Jonathan Mayberry, and of course, your future dark overlord, Scott Sigler.

We'll share their tidbits of wisdom right after this quick break.

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Welcome to Deepcuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slice's Fiction podcast, where a sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world of fiction and pop culture.

I am Scott Sigler, sci-fi horror known far and wide as the Future Dark Overlord.

And I am A. B. Sigler, publisher and M.T.S. Entertainment, and audiobook narrator. And on this deep cuts, we're

talking about things pro authors wish they'd known before they published. A reminder, this is a

bonus episode of the Scott Siggler Slices podcast. Not part of any particular story. You don't have to

listen to keep up on our current tale, but we think you'll like to sneak peek behind the storyteller curtain. Let's get started. Let's go. Let's rock. There are so many things that I wish

I knew before I started to work with an author who wanted to publish. Okay. And he was already

a published author at that time. It was very fancy. Very fancy. None of this is what we're

talking about today. This is what we're talking about today.

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