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So.  The bag has been tipped over and the cat is loose.  John Anealio and I have been tapped to do a new podcast for sfsignal.com.  On top of that, I’ll be writing for sfsignal.com a couple times a month.

I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and a really good [...]

Random Thoughts for July 14th 2010

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I pitched an idea to someone and they liked it so I’ll probably start something new here shortly.

More on that later…

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Networking is important no matter what you do for a living.  Meeting new people, making connections – it can be the difference between something happening or not.

You are more likely to [...]

Random Thoughts for July 13th 2010

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I’ve been offline more lately than is usual.  Well, I say offline but really I am still online, I’m just staying focused on the tasks at hand and not doing as much Twitter as people are accustomed to seeing from me.  That’s because I’ve been writing.

A lot.

The whole point of this stuff is [...]

John Picacio – Art nerd?

Once again, my friend John Anealio and I had the privilege of hosting a fantastic guest over on the Functional Nerds podcast. John Picacio is an award winning artist who has put together some of the most memorable cover art I’ve seen in a long time.

His covers grace books from many different publishers, have won [...]

Mur Lafferty and the Skype conversation from Hell

Last week, John Anealio and I hosted the great Mur Lafferty for the Functional Nerds podcast.

Despite Skype continually failing us (30 second random silences, disconnects, more 30 second random silences, more disconnects), we had a really good conversation.

Mur began podcasting in 04 so she is more than a little acquainted with the whole thing and [...]

Nerdcore, Hipster Please and the Gandalf look

Over on the Functional Nerds site, John Anealio and I had the opportunity to chat with Z (Hipster, Please) from the Wired GeekDad Hiptrax podcast.

What a fantastic little show that was.

I never know what is going to happen when I hit that record button; I’m sure it’s going to be good, I just never know [...]

Andrew Liptak, Military SciFi & the occasional Skype malfunction

Last week over on the Functional Nerds podcast, John Anealio and I had a chance to shoot the shit with Andrew Liptak (twitter.com/AndrewLiptak); blogger and military historian – among many other things.

His take on what is and what isn’t military scifi is an interesting one.  For example, he considers the original Dune to be a [...]

Podcast – chatting with Lou Anders

You know, since I started this whole blogger/podcaster/twitter/online life sort of thing, I have to say that I have been incredibly lucky in that the people I have met have been fantastic.

The first famous writer I had a chance to confab with, L.E. Modesitt Jr., couldn’t have been a warmer, more personable guy.  I really [...]

The Blake Charlton Podcast

Had a great time with Blake Charlton and John Anealio last week over on the Functional Nerds podcast.

Since Blake is both an author and a medical student, it gave us the opportunity to branch out a little bit and talk about more serious stuff – like the human brain.

Blake was able to bring a unique [...]

This thing I did: The Functional Nerds

So.

Thanks to Twitter, I met this guy named John Anealio.  He writes songs based on scifi and fantasy books he reads and likes.  He even has a podcast all about it.  Anyway,  he started listening to my podcast and thought to himself, “Self? It would be fun to do a podcast with that ATFMB guy.”

MONTHS [...]