Episode 661-With Maura Jortner - The Functional Nerds
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I got to be a guest on a podcast. So exciting! I loved talking to @tracyatownsend.bsky.social and @atfmb.bsky.social about my #new #book, Keepers of the Marsh, which comes out in two weeks. Give it a listen, and send Patrick and Tracy cookies.
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06.05.2025 23:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 648-With Jack Campbell - The Functional Nerds
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New #podcast episode! This week we're chatting with #prolific #scifi #author Jack Campbell about his new #book - DESTINY'S WAY! Book 2 of THE DOOMED EARTH Duology, Please give us a #listen! #sciencefiction Hosts: @atfmb.bsky.social @tracyatownsend.bsky.social
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14.01.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Catching up on new #podcast episodes! Our chat with @katherinevillyard.com dropped last week! Her #new #book #immortalGifts is available NOW at booksellers everywhere.
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07.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Add N. K. Jemisin’s “no voting on who gets to be people” to this and you’ve pretty much got my politics.
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My school is hosting some kind of a middle school math and science competition today. They’re using the classrooms up and down the hall around my office, and I’m not exaggerating when I say it sounds like 200 howler monkeys with TikTok accounts are closing in on me.
13.11.2024 17:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Functional Nerds
The Functional Nerds is a weekly podcast from author/blogger Patrick Hester and author/teacher Tracy Townsend. We focus on interviews with authors, editors, media personalities and artists in Science ...
Greetings, Bluesky folks!
I’m a #teacher of #sff, creative writing, literature, & rhetoric at a public boarding high school for gifted kids.
Sometimes, I write books.
Lately, I’ve been #podcasting. Check out The Functional Nerds!
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13.11.2024 04:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This nerd, on the other hand, came running up as I was posting Hobbes’ pic because I’m standing right in front of the cabinet where the Churu treats live.
Soos demands tribute!
13.11.2024 03:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I told Hobbes was going to try to get back into social media. He tried to hide in the wrong end of a paper bag.
As commentaries go, this feels kind of pointed.
13.11.2024 03:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Author: WebMage and Fallen Blade series, School for Sidekicks, Numismancer, Dragon Diaries, Morning Arrived, etc. Also local elected—I might be the head of a small government in a purple state, but don’t tell anyone.
You know... the weird one.
Author. Speaker. Consultant. Mother. Wife. Goad. US & AoNZ dual citizen. New Mythos and futurist gal about town. Phoenix Horizon trilogy--(R)EVOLUTION, (ID)ENTITY, and (CON)SCIENCE--predicted far too much.
Senior Editor at Locus Magazine. Artist, editor, writer. Many squid! http://francesca.net/portfolio/ and http://patreon.com/mizfrancesca (She/her) #blm
Author of BARSK and THE AMAZING CONROY • Psychologist / Klingonist / Hypnotist / Neurodivergent / Chimeric Cancer Survivor • The Universe is not yet done with me • (he/him)
SF/F writer & narrator. Hugo-winning senior podcast editor @strangehorizons.bsky.social, host @thewritesong.co.uk. Lapsed film critic; now BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
📍 London, UK
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Award-Winning author, DBA, geek. President of Broad Universe. She/her.
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Author, “Tune in Tomorrow” (Solaris Nova),“The Only Song Worth Singing" (Arc Manor), “Leave No Trace" (Arc Manor, 2025)
Upcoming: "We Interrupt This Program" (Solaris Nova, 2026)
Journalist: Variety, LA Times, Today, Gold Derby
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Tabletop gamer and designer. Father. Technologist. Author. Editor. Web Developer. Author Coach. Creative. https://jtevans.net/ https://www.kilnar.com/ https://gnomestew.com/ (He/Him)
3-time Hugo Award-winning SF/F/H blog.
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Mmm...bagels...
Writer. Screenwriter. Reader. Reviewer. NOLA native. 2019 GH finalist. Mostly just caffeine and sarcasm. Even my bright side is dark. she/her 💖💜💙 🌈
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Horror and Gothic scholar, poet/writer, PhD, HWA. Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025). Words in The Future Fire, Utopia SF, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
Art and beauty are everywhere.
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Publishers: Cloud Orchid Publishing Ink Smith Publishing
He/him. Canadian SFF author: CATALYST (2022), CASTOFF (2025). Games writer: The Expanse RPG, TinyD6. Vice chair of Can*Con. 2500-year-old Time Lord and snake parent. Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
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They/he. Trans & non-binary Midwest Princex.
Author (Annihilation Aria, Genrenauts, etc). Hugo & Stabby-Award finalist.
Game designer (Daggerheart, Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, etc.)
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The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site)
Accepting book submissions now!
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Novelist, creativity enthusiast, comic scribbler, singer, cartoon nerd, asexuality activist. Author of THE INVISIBLE ORIENTATION. She/her. Not your babysitter.
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Writer, teacher, bowler (sometimes). Strong opinions on coffee, gin cocktails and sandwiches. Hopelessly idealistic. Mostly harmless. He/him
Writer, artivist, teacher, culture disruptor
Substack bestseller w/ the Feral Stack
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