Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

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Don’t Damage Your Brand as a Marketing Twhore

Twitter is fast becom­ing a pim­ple on the back­side of my social net­work­ing life. It’s always been an odd thing, under attack by spam­mers of the tra­di­tional sort as well as non­tra­di­tional. I block social media experts, SEO experts, and porn stars on a daily basis. They don’t care what I have to say, they […]

An Editor’s Perspective on Rejection

Since I’ve taken on the gig of man­ag­ing edi­tor at Escape Pod, I’ve been relearn­ing a lot of things about being an edi­tor that I had for­got­ten in the time since clos­ing th Fortean Bureau. I’ve been think­ing a lot about rejec­tion let­ters, and rejec­tion in gen­eral, but not from my usual per­spec­tive as a […]

On Writing Motivation

Quaero_verum asks: You’ve prob­a­bly already writ­ten about 1,000 posts on it already, but moti­va­tion is my sore spot at the moment. As in, “sit thy butt down and just write!” Also, when I do write, I sit and stare at the blank white screen for a lonnnng time. I am find­ing it hard to even churn […]

Reader Questions: How Do I Decide How Much Work to (Self) Publish Online?

Let’s kick off reader ques­tion answer week with a real doozy. CDThomas asks: I don’t have a web­site or blog. And I don’t know if I want one. I under­stand if I’d cre­ate a blog for nat­ter­ing on, but most of that itch gets scratched by Twitter. I’m not much of an essay writer, because I […]