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, 20231 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, 20231 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, 20231 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, 20231 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, 20231 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, 20231 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, 20224 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, 20222 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, 20223 min
Writing advice for my twelve-year-old self.
Writing advice to my younger self.
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Oliver Blakemore
Aug 25, 20223 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, 20223 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20223 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, 20224 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, 20213 min
Distressed jeans bug me on a deep level.
Distressed jeans are a triumph of marketing.
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