Thomas Rydder's Blog: The Clearing, page 26
July 12, 2013
Reviews: Love’m or hate’m, you gotta love’m…
Ask yourself a bare bones question. Do it when you’re alone, and have some time to think about the answer. When it’s quiet, the kids are in bed, the work day is done, and you have a glass of wine or a beer, and you are curled up in your favorite chair. Then ask: Am […]
July 10, 2013
“Restless Souls: 3 Dark Fables”, my new ghost anthology, will be out soon – and I need some reviewers…:)
I want to get some pre-launch reviews, so, if you have some time on your hands, I’d surely appreciate anyone who could read my book, and prepare a review – the word total for the three stories is around 46,000 – thanks so much “Do Unto Others” (short story) – Jeremy is a street hood, […]
My brother Seumas tells it like it is – or at least, as it should be…
Click on the handsome mug to read it Filed under: Articles and Posts by Authors Tagged: Chelsea Flower Show, England, Far East, Forbes, Hong Kong, Jurassic, Middle East, seumas gallacher, The Clearing, Thomas Rydder, Vengeance Wears Black
Idiots who drowned in the gene pool #44
(26 May 2004, Wolfsberg, Austria) The manager of an apartment house was surprised to find the legs of a corpse sticking out an apartment window. Police entered the apartment and found the deceased man’s head soaking in a sink full of hot water. Apparently the out-of-work Austrian had returned home after a night of drinking […]
Good morning, all! My “Chatting with the Authors” segment this morning is with my pal Sarah Mallery and “Unexpected Gifts”…come join us!
Click on the cover to get it on Amazon! Book Description: Can we learn from our ancestral past? Do our relatives behaviors help mold our own? In Unexpected Gifts, that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, forever choosing the wrong man. Searching for answers, she begins to read her family’s diaries and journals […]
“Write to Done” lists their Top 10 Blogs for Writers…
Click on the badge to see the list! Filed under: Articles and Posts by Authors Tagged: joanna penn, restless souls, The Clearing, the write practice, Thomas Rydder, write to done
July 9, 2013
6 Reasons Writers See No Value In Facebook, by Kirsten Lamb…(thanks Catherine Wolffe)
Click on the cover to read it! Filed under: Articles and Posts by Authors Tagged: Arts, Catherine Wolffe, Facebook, LinkedIn, Login, Nat Wolff, Online Communities, Social Networking, The Clearing, Thomas Rydder, twitter
Good morning, all! My “Chatting with the Authors” segment this morning is with my pal Sarah Mallery and “Unexpected Gifts”…come join us!
Click on the cover to get it on Amazon! Book Description: Can we learn from our ancestral past? Do our relatives behaviors help mold our own? In Unexpected Gifts, that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, forever choosing the wrong man. Searching for answers, she begins to read her family’s diaries and journals […]
July 8, 2013
Backlinks – underused and essential…
1. One way to increase your site’s (and therefore, your) visibility is increasing your ranking for search engines. Sites like Google and Alexa rank sites according to a formula, and all their formulas have one common factor – backlinks. So, what are backlinks, and how do they work? Backlinks, quite simply, are links on one […]
A couple mistakes I’ve made on social media…
To any new author – and an old one, for that matter – solving the puzzle of social media can be more difficult than writing the book you’re going to crow about. I know, because I’ve had many a conversation with other authors who have said so. Much of the talk within facebook, twitter, and […]
