Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

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    On Types of Writers Block

    Posted 2:10 PM Tuesday, July 6 2010

    When I first began writ­ing in earnest, I didn’t believe in writer’s block.  You know how it is.  When you’re com­pletely lack­ing in self-consciousness about your works, it’s much eas­ier to get things done.  Doubt hasn’t entered the pic­ture then, nor a dozen other ever-present con­cerns, experience-driven instincts, and mild pho­bias that you develop with […]

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    A short history of my personal finance: How freelancing saved my sanity and gave me back my soul.

    Posted 2:29 PM Monday, June 28 2010

    Most have heard the apho­rism that “money can’t buy you hap­pi­ness.” Strictly true, I sup­pose, but then, money can buy things that will make you happy, at least for a while. Not all the things that would make you happy, pos­si­bly, but… it’s just not true in a looser sense. That’s not what I want […]

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    Labeling Oneself as an Artist and Why I Have Avoided It

    Posted 2:40 PM Monday, March 1 2010

    I’ve strongly resisted the label of artist for a long time, because I don’t feel wor­thy of it, on the one hand, and on the other hand, to avoid the neg­a­tive con­no­ta­tions that are entwined with the label in my back­wards, red­neck brain. Who is an artist? (the ingrained notions) Here’s what I grew up thinking […]

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    Eight Less Known Websites for SF Readers and Fans

    Posted 8:30 AM Monday, August 31 2009

    Everyone knows a dozen author web­sites to read, and the indus­try blogs that tell you about the lat­est movies and TV shows. But what if you’re inter­ested in hear­ing about out­landish ideas you might pil­fer for a story? Or maybe you just want a quick kick of reality-based sen­sawunda. What web­sites to do you turn […]

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    Why WordPress is the Perfect Platform For Author Sites

    Posted 8:18 AM Monday, August 24 2009

    I get a lot of requests for help with WordPress lately (which I am happy to answer), and I’m mak­ing a good chunk of my money through my knowl­edge of the con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem. I thought today I’d give you some back­ground on why I’ve made WordPress my go-to plat­form when design­ing author websites.

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    Be a Positive Force in Fandom, Not an Asshole

    Posted 9:46 AM Wednesday, August 19 2009

    If there was one thing that drew me in par­tic­u­lar to genre fan­dom as a whole, it was the bound­less and unashamed enthu­si­asm that genre fans had.  Fans loved things, and their pas­sion was worn on their sleeves.  They weren’t ashamed to like sci­ence fic­tion in gen­eral, or, say, Star Trek in par­tic­u­lar, despite there […]

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    To Rewrite or Not to Rewrite? That is the Flowchart.

    Posted 8:45 AM Monday, August 17 2009

    I recently received a rewrite request for a story I had sub­mit­ted.  Over my time as a writer, I’ve received rewrite requests that I’ve accepted, and rewrite requests I have turned down–for a lot of dif­fer­ent rea­sons.  I real­ized that my think­ing that goes into the deci­sion of whether or not to do so is […]

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    10 Ways to Have a More “Interesting” Convention Experience

    Posted 10:08 AM Wednesday, August 5 2009

    I am not attend­ing WorldCon (AKA Anticipation)  this year.  Last year was great, and I met a lot of really inter­est­ing new peo­ple, and got to meet some peo­ple in the flesh for the first time like John Joseph Adams (whose col­lec­tion The Living Dead was nom­i­nated for a World Fantasy Award this week!  Congratulations […]

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    Writing: Your Subconscious and You

    Posted 9:03 AM Friday, July 31 2009

    I have a very rocky rela­tion­ship with my sub­con­scious. On the one hand, my sub­con­scious is the font of my best ideas.  Even when I writ­ing some­thing that has come mostly from ego-brain think­ing, it inserts cool things, catches ideas that I missed the first time around.  It’s some­times like hav­ing a bet­ter writer sitting […]

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    The Madness and Genius of John Brown

    Posted 10:24 PM Wednesday, April 8 2009

    I can still remem­ber the first time I ever saw an image of John Brown. I’m ten years old, and we are tour­ing the Capitol build­ing in Topeka Kansas.  We have been learn­ing Kansas his­tory all year, all about Bloody Kansas and the found­ing of Topeka and the Nebraska-Kansas Act.  None of it means any­thing to […]

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Who

Jeremiah Tolbert

Race : Human (mostly)

Class :
SF/F  Writer 4 / Web Designer 7 / Photographer 6

Stats

Intelligence : Good at math, bad at word puz­zles, keen on sci­ence.  Education: bach­e­lors in Biology from a tiny lib­eral arts col­lege you never heard of.

Wisdom : Still work­ing on that “sound of one hand clap­ping” koan.

Charisma : Likable enough, but not going to win any Mr. Universe contests.

Strength : Can take roughly 8 tod­dlers in a fight before being overwhelmed.

Dexterity : Not to be trusted with frag­ile objects with a value greater than $500.

Constitution : Survived a semes­ter in Africa eat­ing half the ungu­late species of the Serengeti.

Skills

Olympus Cameras : +7
HTML/CSS Coding : +8
Mischievous Photoshopping  : +10
Knowledge: Steampunk : +6
General Smart Assery : +9
Gaming (gen­eral) : +10

Words

Upcoming Fiction

My story “One Click Banishment”  will soon appear in the anthol­ogy The Way of the Wizard from Prime Books, edited by John Joseph Adams.

Currently Writing

A young adult novel involv­ing time travel set in Kansas, both in the present, and in the Late Cretaceous when Kansas was a great inland sea, filled with the most dan­ger­ous preda­tors ever to live in salt water.  Mosasaurs make Jaws look like a guppy.

I am also design­ing and writ­ing for an upcom­ing web-based game based on Dr. Roundbottom, ten­ta­tively titled Brass Cogs: Publish or Perish.  The game will have a heavy story-telling com­po­nent, some­thing akin to the choose your own adven­ture model.

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Photos

Upcoming  Projects

If work allows, I will be return­ing to Yellowstone National Park in September to focus on cap­tur­ing wildlife dur­ing the fall mat­ing season.

I’m plan­ning to do some ref­er­ence shots of a model for a comic book artist  in the near future.  Simple, but fun!

Where To See

My pho­tog­ra­phy can cur­rently be seen in the fol­low­ing locations:

Ivinson Memorial Hospital
255 N. 30th Street
Laramie, Wyoming 82072

Know of another place where I can show my pho­tos?  Drop me a line, please!  I have framed prints ready to go up!

Online

Flickr Photostream

My semi-abandoned 365 Project

Dr. Roundbottom

Designs

Clockpunk Studios

I do most of my design work as Clockpunk Studios, a web design stu­dio focus­ing in web­sites for authors, pub­lish­ers, and other small busi­nesses not afraid to dream big.

I have worked in the past as an in-house designer for a small credit union and a national back­ground screen­ing company.

Recent Clients

Links of Note