Episode 11: JB Jackson & Shagduk

Undertowers Podcast

Episode 11: JB Jackson & Shagduk

In this episode we interview JB Jackson, the author of Shagduk and the upcoming Ursula of Ulm, the second installment in the ongoing five book De re Dordica saga. We discuss his writing style and inspiration for Shagduk. Shagduk is an epistolary novel being written as a journal or diary and we dive deep into what writing in this style entails. We discuss some key touchpoints in Diary of a Nobody by Weedon Grossmith and George Grossmith and Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin. We talk through his admiration for fantasy giants like JRR Tolkien and Jack Vance and how JB read a years worth of newspapers from 1977 to make sure that the places, dates, weather, events, and ways people were thinking and talking back in that time were accurate and true to life. We dive into all this and much much more. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. You can buy Shagduk here directly from Pilum Press. It is also available on Amazon. Look for Ursula of Ulm to be released any day now. You can follow JB on x/twitter at @deredordica. The music you heard was Greener Pastures by Hole Dweller from his EP Crossroads.

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