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Scott Sigler Slices

DEEP CUTS Episode 62: How Scott Chooses Character Voices

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Science Fiction, Arts, Fiction

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Some audiobook narrators do a straight read, while others choose unique voices for each character. Scott is among the latter—how does he decide what voice a character should have? What goes into that selection process? Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2025 by Empty Set Entertainment  The best narration comes courtesy of the GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG, which trims the price of a new dot-com registration by 99%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know what? I give and I give and I give. I not only write the stories, I read the stories

0:06.4

to you and give every character its own unique voice. I do it because I love you and what do I get

0:12.6

in return? Sass. Sass about my female voice. Sass about my impersonations. You know what goes

0:18.7

into picking voices for an audiobook? It's a lot.

0:22.6

I kind of do know what it takes to pick a voice for an audiobook. Tonight, we're going to be

0:28.1

taking a deep dive into your process, though, right after this quick break.

0:47.0

Yeah. Welcome to Deep Cuts, the audiobook episode of the Scott Sigler Slice's fiction podcast.

0:52.7

We're a sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world of fiction and pop culture.

0:57.8

I am Scott Sigler, sci-fi horror author known far and white as the future Dark Overlord.

1:02.7

And I am A.B. Sigler, audiobook narrator and publisher at M.D.Sat Entertainment.

1:11.1

Tonight, we're talking about how Scott chooses his character voices as a writer who narrates his own audiobooks. And remind, this is a bonus episode in the Scott Sigler-Slices podcast.

1:14.8

Not part of any particular story.

1:16.4

You don't have to listen to this to keep up on her current tale,

1:18.7

but we do think you'll like this peek behind the storyteller and narrator Curtin.

1:23.9

All right.

1:24.2

So let's get into it.

1:25.5

But I am going to stop before we talk about that because we just got back from a weekend at San Diego Comic-Con where Scott was a special guest. And it was spectacular.

1:37.2

Quite fun. Quite fun. The entire weekend was great. The crew and everybody who supported us as we were getting there and all the guest relations people,

1:47.1

they were fantastic.

1:48.6

Also, we had a great time with our friends and you secured an invite to the Blurred and Boogie Party,

1:55.2

which was so lovely.

1:56.5

It was great.

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