Books Described Badly: A Book Where Music is Magic
The book did everything. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking alternately, and it ended in a genre I wasn't expecting.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Books Described Badly: Fantasy Uplifted
It’s a beautifully written, magical story that takes place in England’s Victorian era.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 8
- 1 min
Today's Band Shirt: Flight Kamikaze's Extra Punk
Flight Kamikaze is a Colorado punk band. They know their job, and they do it right.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 6
- 1 min
Today's Band Shirt: Metal for Nerds (so for everyone)
Mississippi Bones makes the metalest of music. They sprang out of the ADD fugue state of their founding member, Jared Collins.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 3
- 1 min
Books Described Badly
Connor has a hobby, then gets arrested. Sky uses her superpower to defeat blue light special Dracula.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Books Described Badly
Among the most metal books I've ever read. If you like seeing "punk" genres in their nascent stages, Gibson's a good dude to look for.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Jun 8
- 1 min
Books Described Badly
Cities in Flight by James Blish A strangely well-written book for being such hard science fiction. This book described badly: the entire...
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Oliver Blakemore
- Sep 14, 2022
- 4 min
Not the Dresden Files for a Reason
My book is not like the Dresden Files (but it is) or urban fantasy Firefly (but it is) or like a D&D campaign.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Not a review of Nova by Samuel R. Delaney--Wrong hero. Too few drugs.
Review of book, Nova by Samuel R Delaney. Required reading for hipsters, stoners, and people who need to learn how to write science fiction.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
Writing advice for my twelve-year-old self.
Writing advice to my younger self.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 25, 2022
- 3 min
Not a review of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Not a review of The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Ambitious but lame.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 17, 2022
- 3 min
The ingredients of Stories and how to shop for them
How to write stories. Pretty foolproof method that'll help any writer to focus their story ideas.
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 15, 2022
- 2 min
Not a review of Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Not as clever as I wish it were. Foundation and Empire tells the story of a God complex as big as your arm tangling with severe...
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Not a Review of: Slan by A.E. Van Vogt
It MIGHT be racist. Not quite sure. Slan tells the story of Ãœbermensch Jommy Cross and his journey to achieve world peace through the...
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
Why You Should Set Reading Goals.
Blog about my science fiction book list. Book recommendations! And reasons not to give book recs.
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Oliver Blakemore
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
Solving for Why: My Musical Writing
Self-employment, it turns out, means spending a lot of time listening to people who are in the business of making money. Self-employment...
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Oliver Blakemore
- Apr 13, 2022
- 4 min
Marketing (i.e., catnip) for Writers (i.e., dummies)
The Venn Diagram with good writers in one circle and skilled marketers in the other doesn't overlap much. I realized, though, before I...
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Oliver Blakemore
- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
Celebrating Identity - Masculine versus Feminine or both
How PINROSE piqued my interest in writing about Memory, Synesthesia, and what brands need to learn more about. Living means dancing...
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Oliver Blakemore
- Mar 25, 2022
- 4 min
We live in a world where Keef outlived Charlie
We live in a world where Keith Richards has outlived Charlie Watts. That story tells you something about how the last century evolved....
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Oliver Blakemore
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
Distressed jeans bug me on a deep level.
Distressed jeans are a triumph of marketing.
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