DEEP CUTS Episode 92: Sigler Ascension Day~

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Nineteen years ago, on April 1st, Scott took the Amazon charts by storm and never looked back. Almost two decades of making cool stuff for cool people. Come celebrate with us! Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment Time to celebrate with the GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG. Nothing but a party when you save 99% on the cost of a new domain registration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was a cold, blustery day in San Francisco.
0:03.4	The year was 2007.
0:06.4	An erstwhile, up-and-coming author who had spent over a decade,
0:10.6	tilting at publishing's windmills, trying in vain to get a book deal,
0:14.6	launched an independent paperback on theamazon.com.
0:20.2	With no advertising, no marketing, no publisher support, that book, Ancester, shot to number
0:26.8	one on the horror and sci-fi charts, and for a few days outsold the likes of Stephen
0:32.9	King, Dean Coombeck McCarthy, and James Patterson.
0:38.8	That erstwhile author was Scott Sigler,
0:42.0	and ancestor success launched him into a Big Five publishing deal.
0:46.9	The world has never been the same.
0:50.0	Henceforth, April 1st has become known as Sigler Ascension Day.
0:57.2	We're about to celebrate the 19th Sigler Ascension Day with y'all, and we've got the drinks to do it.
1:03.0	Come cheers with us right after this quick break.
1:13.4	There's no one like you, and there never will be.
1:15.6	From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody.
1:21.2	There were many legends, but there was only one.
1:25.5	Michael in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, April 22.
1:33.4	Welcome to a slice of slices.
1:38.3	This is a non-story episode of the Scott Sigler Slice's fiction podcast feed.
1:44.6	I am Scott Sigler, a sci-fi horror and sports fiction author known far and wide as the future Dark Overlord.
1:50.5	And I am A.B. Sigler publisher and Empty Set Entertainment, where we make cool things for cool people. In this episode, we're talking about the 19th Sigler Ascension Day. A quick health
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