Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

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On Types of Writers Block

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 […]

Two New SF/F Client Projects Live

Two projects have gone live to the pub­lic this week.  Let’s break them down shall we? Rocket Kapre Rocket Kapre is a web­site ded­i­cated to  fan­tas­tic Filipino fic­tion.  I was approached by the client Paolo Chikiamco a cou­ple of months ago with a tight time­line.  We started with a pre-built theme and worked our way from […]

Case Study: The Five Worlds Website

…the Academy was founded to detail the story of how Fremont’s Children directed the out­come of the Making War. This is the incred­i­ble and unlikely story of how a brother and a sis­ter, and other young heroes, cre­ated the bal­anced forces that drive us today. Although this is a tale of our past, it is […]

Recommended Viewing: The Sleep Dealer

I have often thought that the future of sci­ence fic­tion isn’t in tales of first world nations like the United States. The future sto­ries we should be explor­ing and con­tem­plat­ing more are the ones involv­ing (and told by res­i­dents of) life on the fringes, in the fave­las and the bor­der towns, in the devel­op­ing world, […]