Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Lethe Press Special: Time Well Bent for $2.99!

If you follow me on Twitter, then you might already know about this deal.  But for those of you who don’t, this will be fantastic news! Steve Berman (editor at Lethe Press) and I recently had a discussion about the apparent lack of ebook discounts for users of Barnes and Noble Nooks (on Twitter, of […]

Literary Genre Fiction: It’s Ain’t New, So Please Shut Up

One of things that annoyed me about Cormac McCarthy’s The Road was the way it was received by critics.  Specifically, critics from outside of the genre.  A handful of them praised McCarthy for writing original post-apocalyptic fiction while ignoring altogether the rich history of such fiction in the SF community.  While I enjoyed The Road, […]

WISB Podcast: Chapter Seven (The Council in Darkness)

The new episode is here after a long process of editing (which may have actually killed me a little inside). Things are heating up in the story. The moon has gone dark, James continues to worry about Laura and battle with his guilt over his influence on the events consuming Arlin City, and Pea may […]