Hosted by The Functional Nerds · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 100 episodes
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The weekly podcast from author/blogger Patrick Hester and author/teacher Tracy Townsend
The Functional Nerds hosts The Functional Nerds Podcast, a arts show with 100 episodes published.
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Catriona Silvey , author of VERVAIN HOLLOW . About VERVAIN HOLLOW : Two years ago, Laura was in a cult. But when the sprawling house in the hollow burned down with Verv
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Sam J. Miller , author of Red Star Hustle . About Red Star Hustle : Aran, a happy-go-lucky high-class escort, is on the run after he’s framed for the assassination of h
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome William Bernhardt , author of The Superman Wars . About The Superman Wars : Almost everyone knows about the man from Krypton who, disguised as mild-mannered reporter Cl
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Peter Orullian, author of SONGS OF THE DEAD. About SONGS OF THE DEAD: When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London’s West End, is killed, he awakens to
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome J.P. Lacrampe, author of Valet. About Valet: Cy wants nothing more than to be useful, raise his utility score, and receive the next update for his operating system. But
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Seanan McGuire, author of STRIXHAVEN: OMENS OF CHAOS. About STRIXHAVEN: OMENS OF CHAOS: Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fig
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Naomi Kritzer, author of Obstetrix. About Obstetrix: Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she’s kidnapped. They’re n
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Amal El-Mohtar, author of Seasons of Glass and Iron. About Seasons of Glass and Iron: Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Anton Hur, translator of If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop. About If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop: An elderly woman stranded i
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Jeremy Szal, author of WOLFSKIN. About WOLFSKIN: Vakov Fukasawa is a Reaper. An elite soldier injected with a dangerous drug called stormtech: the DNA of a genocidal al
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Molly Tanzer, author of And Side by Side They Wander. About And Side by Side They Wander: For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have been on loan at
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Tao Wong, author of The First Step. About The First Step: It is said that a journey of a thousand li begins with a single step… Long Wu Ying never expected to become a
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome John Chu, author of The Subtle Art of Folding Space. About The Subtle Art of Folding Space: Ellie’s universe?and this one?is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a co
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Michael R. Underwood, author of Menagerie of Mayhem: Volume 1. About Menagerie of Mayhem: Volume 1: Menagerie of Mayhem: Volume 1 introduces 35 new adversaries for the
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Damien Ober, author of Voidverse. About Voidverse: When the Sinker was a child, all she knew was violence. To survive, she fled into the Void—a seemingly infinite nothi
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Aubrey Sitterson, author of Free Planet Volume 1. About Free Planet Volume 1: In the wake of a grueling war of independence, a team of revolutionary heroes is tasked wi
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Laura K. Maurer, author of THE RENEGADE AND THE LODESTAR. About THE RENEGADE AND THE LODESTAR: Persephone is living a nightmare. Waking up on a cold, hard ground with a
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Seamus Sullivan, author of Daedalus Is Dead. About Daedalus Is Dead: Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The constructor of the Labyr
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Katie Cook, author of NOTHING SPECIAL. About NOTHING SPECIAL: In the grand scheme of the worlds at large, Callie thinks she’s nothing special. Sure, she’s friends with
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy look back on 2025 and towards 2026 in a rare and very special Just Us episode. We chat about our favorite episodes from 2025, our favorite authors and more! If you like what we
Seanan McGuire
Award-winning author and Magic superfan
1 appearance on this show
Amal El-Mohtar
author
1 appearance on this show
Jeremy Szal
author of The Common Trilogy
1 appearance on this show
Molly Tanzer
author of And Side by Side They Wander
1 appearance on this show
Aubrey Sitterson
author of Free Planet Volume 1
1 appearance on this show
Seamus Sullivan
Performance Health Specialist · Cenegenics
1 appearance on this show
Katie Cook
author of NOTHING SPECIAL
1 appearance on this show
Emily Mitchell
Strategic Marketing Architect
1 appearance on this show
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