Blake Ridder's Blog

I would like to just thank anyone who downloaded my book recently, it has now reached the number one spot in One-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads. Please remember to subscribe via the link at the end of the book under Author's Note to get notified of the follow up novel. I am writing as much as I can every day to get this finished by the end of Summer. Thanks again for your support. 

Paperback edition of my short story Allied: First Contact is finally here. I will be giving away 3 signed copies on Goodreads, winners will be selected at the end of August.

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It's been almost a year since I set up my author page on Amazon and Goodreads, I thought it was time to update some details and finally get a better photo uploaded of myself, the older photo was actually me in my twenties, and now I am... well... a lot older.

In other news (always wanted to say that) - My first short story will soon be available on various other digital store such as iTunes, and not long after that, the next novel will be ready. 

Here is a teaser/introduction to my up coming novel.

We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible, and we count these moments, these movements where we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements, but we lost all that. Perhaps we just forgotten, that we're still pioneers, we've barely begun, and our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, but our destiny lies abov...

Thanks to my fellow author Curtis Lee Cancino, here's his very detailed review of Allied: First Contact.

A modern, updated contemporary take on what it would be like to, well, make first contact with an other intelligence. That other intelligence being the new author, Blake Ridder. As a fair warning, this story has its share of grammatical problems. So, if that is an issue to you, you may want to skip the current version, written at the time this review. But, for anybody else who simply e...

My first short story will now be free to download from Amazon to your Kindle for the next 5 days, get it while you can. I really hope you will enjoy this quick prequel to my next novel. Here's more information on this book:


Allied: First Contact

Awakened by a violent storm one morning, Ethan is joined by Cara, his attractive neighbor. They evacuate their apartment building, only to be greeted by absolute chaos outside. Violent hurricane winds and rain blow through the town, the air is freezing...

Blake Ridder - Science fiction writer, author of "Allied: First Contact".

Upcoming novel to the prequel above will be released in the new year of 2014.