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Showing posts with label Functional Nerds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Functional Nerds. Show all posts

12/9/10

Kay Kenyon: A Very Functional Nerd

Bright of the Sky (Book 1 of The Entire and the Rose)Kay Kenyon is a guest this week on Episode 36 of The Functional Nerds podcast. They talk about her quartet, The Entire and the Rose, which begins with the novel Bright of the Sky (and which is free on Kindle, btw), as well as the writing life in general, science fiction, fantasy, and music. The podcast can be streamed at the link above or downloaded from iTunes. Check it out.

10/5/10

Podcasts and Blog Interviews: Sykes and Enge

Sam Sykes, author of Tome of the Undergates, defends the honor of Canadians, the French, fantasy trilogies, and combat-heavy books on the latest SF Signal Podcast, even if he does take another shot at Brent Weeks. The story Sykes tells about Yours Truly in the shows closing minutes should be viewed only as hearsay. But the rest of the podcast is well worth checking out.

Meanwhile, James Enge (The Wolf Age) is a guest on the latest episode of The Functional Nerds today. I'll be checking it out myself shortly, but they say they discuss "Latin, Morlock, sword & socrcery, Blood of Ambrose, This Crooked Way, Merlin, publishing, Popular Science, Norse mythology, Mickey Zucker Reinhurt, Jack Vance, Frtiz Leiber, Roman & Greek mythology, Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Dwarves, creating languages, Klingon & Pyr books" so you must be as intrigued as I am.

Meanwhile, over on the Black Gate blog, James Enge and Howard Andrew Jones (author of the forthcoming The Desert of Souls) discuss "Writing Serial Characters and the Book Deal." Their back and forth conversation is fascinating and informative.

7/18/10

Mike Resnick on the Functional Nerds

Mike Resnick guests on the latest episode of The Functional Nerds podcast. Hosts Patrick Hester and John Anealio's podcast is quickly becoming a favorite of mine, and Resnick is always a riot to listen to with his funny, eye-opening, and informative stories of a life in the publishing business. Highly highly recommended. SF Signal's John DeNardo guests as well.