Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Writing and the Credit Crunch

So today I was reading one new author’s account of how she struggled as a starving artist in New York, even after receiving her first advance. Then I heard one of the magazines a colleague regularly contributed to was no longer able to pay him. The London Magazine, too, which was initially set up by […]

Disney Genetically Engineers Their Stars

I got this from Peggy over at Biology in Science Fiction. What’s amazing about this isn’t just that it’s the most bizarre and hilarious things to ever be said about Disney (and I really hope Disney was behind this), but that everyone in the video are absolutely, 100% dead serious. They don’t crack up or […]