This week, Patrick and John welcome long time listener, supporter, writer and musician, Stace Johnson!

About Stace Johnson: By day, Stace Johnson is a mild-mannered IT guy for a Colorado 9-1-1 facility, but at night, he transforms into a mild-mannered writer, poet, and musician with an affinity for the Oxford comma.

Stace has written more than thirty non-fiction articles for computer magazines such as ComputorEdge and Rocky Mountain TechLine, and his fiction has appeared most recently in Martian Magazine and Edward Bryant’s Sphere of Influence. He received an Honorable Mention in the Fall 2009 Writers of the Future Contest, and his short story “Sphere of Falling” was chosen to be presented orally at Stories for All Seasons, a Denver literary series, in 2003.

His poetry has appeared in numerous places, including Tales of the Talisman, the Apex Book Company website, and cream city review‘s inaugural I/O issue. He is a long-standing member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.

This week’s picks:

* Stace Pick 1: 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter by Chris Fox

* Stace Pick 2: Soundbrenner Core smartwatch designed for musicians

* John: Dispel Illusion (Impossible Times Book 3) by Mark Lawrence

* Patrick: The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

* Patreon Pick 1: Daisy Jones & the Six

By Taylor Jenkins Reid Picked by Robert Junker

* Patreon Pick 2: Clockwork Angels by By: Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart Picked by Pat Smythe

Links:

* Stace Johnson on Twitter

* John Anealio on Twitter

* Patrick Hester on Twitter

* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

* Patrick Hester on Instagram

* Patrick’s Book: Into the Fire (available everywhere)

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This podcast contains original music by John Anealio.