Jeremiah Tolbert

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This Week’s Editoral Advice: Do Not Reply to Rejection Letters

This is still hap­pen­ing from time to time with my work for Escape Pod. I had kind of thought by now that argu­ing with an edi­tor over their com­ments in a rejec­tion let­ter was com­monly con­sid­ered a bad idea to be avoided at all costs, but I’m still get­ting these at Escape Pod. Let me […]

What Is a Podcastable Story?

Greg Van Eekhout asks: Thoughts on what kinds of sto­ries trans­late well to pod­casts and what kinds don’t? First of all, full dis­claimer. I am the man­ag­ing edi­tor at Escape Pod, the sci­ence fic­tion audio pod­cast. I’ve been doing this job for about 3 or 4 months now, and I am by no means an expert […]

Michael Bishop and Starship Sofa

Tony has put together a really spe­cial episode of Starship Sofa this week, with a read­ing of Michael Bishop’s story, writ­ten in mem­ory of his son who was one of the vic­tims of the Virginia Tech shoot­ing. From Tony over at Starship Sofa: StarShipSofa nar­rates Vinegar Peace, a SF story wrote by Michael Bishop for […]

Meet the New Managing Editor of Escape Pod

Big news of the year so far– recently, Steve Eley of Escape Pod asked me if I would like to come on board as man­ag­ing edi­tor of Escape Pod. I would han­dle story selec­tion for the most part (with his input), and the behind the scenes pro­duc­tion pipeline. He would still host the show and […]