The Functional Nerds Podcast

037 The Functional Nerds In the 37th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome Clay & Susan Griffith, co-authors of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire Book One to discuss: steampunk, the Victorian Era, alternate history, Scotland, Highlander, body snatchers (the real ones, not the made up ones from the movies), comic books, graphic novels, Kolchak The Night Stalker, Alan Quartermain, pulps, collaborating as writers and as a married couple, PYR books & Lou Anders. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: Is A Chupacabra Kosher? (Excerpt) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

036 The Functional Nerds In the 36th episode of the Functional Nerds, John Anealio sits down for the final interview from World Fantasy 2010 - Kay Kenyon, author of Bright of the Sky, A World too Near, City Without End and Prince of Storms. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: The Return of Titus Quinn John Anealio: Batman Smells John Anealio: The Millenium Falcon for Christmas © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

035 The Functional Nerds In the 35th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome back Blake Charlton & James Enge to talk dyslexia, Latin, Greek & why other languages have fewer folks suffering from dyslexia versus English, then break out into a fantastic chat on music, instruments and how language plays a huge part in how music has developed over centuries, then onto mythology and how it influences Fantasy works today, then into video games, comic books, YA novels, Spellbound, The Wolf Age and much, much more. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: NaNoWriMo (Dance Remix) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

034 The Functional Nerds In our 34th episode, John sits down to chat with Lucy A. Snyder, author of Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress and the forthcoming Switchblade Goddess while Patrick runs off with DeNardo to drool over the books stacked in the dealers room at World Fantasy. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

033 The Functional Nerds In our 33rd episode, John & I welcome Shawn Gordon & Kevin J. Anderson.  With Shawn & Kevin we discuss the creation of the Roswell Six albums, Prog Rock Records, James LaBrie, Dreamtheater, John Payne, Asia, Rush, Styx, Neil Peart, Ressurection Lane, Mercury Records, MySpace, Dune, Roswell Six, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Steve Walsh, Kansas, A Line in the Sand, Beyond the Horizon & the concept album. Featuring Original Music by: Roswell Six: Here Be Monsters (used with permission) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

032 The Functional Nerds In our 32nd episode, John & I welcome Jim Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes and The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics.  We also discuss: The Big Bang Theory (tv show), physics, Watchmen, getting it 'right' in the movies, Iron Man, Jurassic Park, UNIX, The Flash, jetpakcs (and why I can't have one - DAMMIT!), Karen Burnham, cellphones, laptops, computers, energy versus ideas, Erwin Schrodinger, Amazing Stories & The Internet. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Page 123 (Mix 4) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

031 The Functional Nerds In our 31st episode, John & I welcome Carolyn Crane, author of Mind Games & Double Cross, available from Spectra. With Carolyn in tow, we discussed: author websites, geocities, twitter, urban fantasy, marketing, cover art, product packaging (when it comes to books), 1st person prose, tense, Anne Rice, Jim Butcher, Laurel K. Hamilton, Ian Fleming, Kelly Armstrong, querying agents, freelancing as a writer, social media & balancing your online presence with your work load as a writer. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

030 The Functional Nerds In our 30th episode, John & I welcome Jaym Gates & Erika Holt as our latest recruits in the 3rd Nerd Army! Jaym & Erika share details of their new anthology, Rigor Amortis; a collection of stories about Romanace, Revenge, Risk & Raunch - with Zombies.  We also tackle topics like: erotica, Clarkesworld, Absolute XPress, marketing, promotion, podcasting, Readercon, 'Jaym the Zombie erotica gal', conventions, World Fantasy 2010, Twitter and the community it builds & Star Trek fanfic/erotica. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Sarene © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

029 The Functional Nerds In our 29th episode, John & I welcome Neil Clarke in as our most recent 3rd Nerd!  Neil is the Publisher / Editor of Clarkesworld magazine as well as the owner of Wyrm Publishing.  In this episode, we chat about: Clarkesworld Magazine, the Hugo award, online magazines, online bookstores, the slush pile, what is a 'semiprozine', Amazon's Associate Program, podcasts, advertising, eBooks, ePublishing, Kindle, Wordpress, Digital Blasphemy, cover art, Balticon, World Fantasy 2010 & Wyrm Publishing. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Blue Lego © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

028 The Functional Nerds In our 28th episode, John is living the rock star life, parked in a Hummer with Fred Kiesche, blogger for SF Signal & The Lensman's Children & Mike Ferrante, King of the Nerds.  The boys sit down to chat about SF Signal, science fiction, the Internet, the ARPANet, blogging, .mac accounts, iWeb, Twitter, Facebook, social networking/media, Clarkesworld, podcasting, 9/11, Fred Pohl, Jack Williamson, Howard Hendricks, Mike Resnick, Lou Anders, authors embracing new and emerging technologies, audio books, David Drake, Mur Lafferty, the I should be Writing podcast, fame, Wil Wheaton, A Thousand True Fans, eBooks & out of print stories/novels/books. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio- Blue Lego © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

027 The Functional Nerds In our 27th episode, John & I are joined by James Enge - author of Blood of Ambrose, This Crooked Way, and the upcoming The Wolf Age.  With James we chat about Latin, Morlock, sword & socrcery, Blood of Ambrose, The Crooked lady, Merlin, publishing, Popular Science, Norse mythology, Mickey Zucker Reinhurt, Jack Vance, Frtiz Liebur, Roman & Greek mythology, Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Dwarves, creating languages, Klingon & PYR books. Please note - we are changing our release day to Tuesdays.  Again, new episodes will appear every Tuesday moving forward! Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio & Dale Chase - We Don't Need Another Trilogy © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

026 The Functional Nerds In the 26th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Matthew Kressel & Kate Baker  We chat about: Sybil's Garage, Clarkesworld Magazine & podcast, being an IT professional, Altered Fluid, Craigslist, Small Beer Press, writing groups, Sybil's Cave, anthologies, the slush pile, Hal Duncan, the Snoopy dance, conventions & convention parties, Unicorn Pegasus Kitten, Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi & the Lupus Alliance of America. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - The Ferris Wheel Support the Lupus Alliance of America - check out http://unicornpegasuskitten.com/ © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

025 The Functional Nerds In the monumental 25th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by World Fantasy Award nominee and Sidewise Award winning author, Chris Roberson!  We chat about: Cinderella-From Fabletown with Love, musicals, comic books, Azimovs magazine, Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, the Bonaventure-Cormody sequence, Philip Jose Farmer, Doc Savage, Anne Rice, Fables, I, Zombie, Monkeybrains Books, publishing, Boom! Studios, Masked, Lou Anders, George Lazenby & On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - NaNoWriMo © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

024 The Functional Nerds In the 24th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Eisner-award nominated author Matthew Sturges.  This week, we chat about comic books, Midwinter, Jack of Fables, Vertigo comics, DC, House of Mystery, JSA All Stars, Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham, Fables, Masked, PYR, Lou Anders, Superheroes, The Dirty Dozen in Elfland, Doctor Who, Stephen Moffat, The Office of Shadow, World Building, Cover Art, Ian Banks & science fiction. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - IMr. Roboto (Styx Cover) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

023 The Functional Nerds In the 23rd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by returning 3rd Nerd Aidan Moher and our youngest recruit to date - Dan Goodman!  This week, we chat about NASA, crowdsourcing wake up music for astronauts, digital distribution, Stargate Atlantis, creative commons licensing, Cory Doctorow, free tv, pay tv, bit torrent, record companies, the music industry, the long tail, publishing, ebooks, ereaders, Caprica, the channel formerly known as Scifi, Stargate Unierse, Haven, Jeff Vandemeer, A Dribble of Ink, Literary Musings and bandcamp.com. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - I should be writing (acoustic) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio