Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Creative Burst!

So I hit that wall we call writer’s block. Yeah, it happens. Especially when you’re killing yourself over a ridiculous deadline you’ve got no one to blame for but yourself. But the other night I went mad and wrote 34 pages of Troglodyte Rose! How insane is that? That means draft 1 is pretty much […]

My Vote For President: An Official, Final Choice

Dear Readers,I have come to a decision on who I plan to vote for this coming Presidential Election. It has been, as some of you know, a difficult period for me, with my reservations about Barack Obama and John McCain, my concerns over our economy and the war, over who will do the right thing […]

Query Project: Real Queries From Real Authors

SF Novelists has a post with links to various queries from SF/F authors. Not sure what more to say other than that, but if you want to know how the pros do it, then you should go there and check it out. I mean it. These are real queries. You can learn how to do […]