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 […]

5 More Ways for Writers to Market Themselves

There are two schools of thought on mar­ket­ing and writ­ing.  Some think that mar­ket­ing can lead to great suc­cess, or that mar­ket­ing alone is respon­si­ble for the suc­cess.   Dan Brown is some­one I hear this accu­sa­tion levied at from time to time.  Others will argue that no amount of mar­ket­ing will make a bad story […]

Why Hasn’t Story Itself Changed with the Web?

The struc­ture and nature of short sto­ries haven’t really changed in the dig­i­tal age, as far as I can tell.  They’re still told the same way mostly, same per­spec­tives, in roughly the same amount of time ( around 3–7000 words).  E-zines are for the most part  straight for­ward adap­ta­tions of the print mag­a­zine for­mat, to […]

10 Writers, Editors, Agents, and Interesting Parties to Follow on Twitter

Twitter is all the rage these days.  I resisted it for more than a year, not see­ing what pur­pose it had.  But then it achieved crit­i­cal mass in my com­mu­nity and I was on-board.  Now I can’t remem­ber what life was like before it.  Combine micro-blogging with tex­ting and instant mes­sag­ing and you kind of […]