WELCOME TO MY RYZE PAGE! It's a pleasure and an honor to have you enter my humble abode. Please step inside, take off your coat, and grab the comfortable chair.

My wife Holly and I live with our dogs Lady and Buddy in the North Carolina hamlet of Rural Hall, known as the Garden Spot of the World.

I was a career newspaper writer and copy editor, working at eight newspapers over 30 years, and now I'm a full-time freelancer. My freelance credits include the Miami Herald, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, The Sporting News' auto-racing preview editions, and Sports Illustrated (a short basketball story). My third book, Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was published March 1, 2008 by Cumberland House Publishing of Nashville, Tenn.

I'm a good writer and desktop publisher, a terrific copy editor, and a good photographer with great equipment. My TG Writer logo is an example of my desktop publishing.

If you're a writer or editor of a publication, I can be your best friend. My strengths include tightening, focusing and improving copy. Plus fact-checking. I once read a mystery novel in which the author said that lyes were the same as acids. Lyes and acids are actually opposites; they cancel each other out. My wife contacted him, and he said that he knew that lyes and acids are not the same, but he screwed up, he missed it in galleys, and his editors didn't catch it. I might miss the occasional miscue, but I'd have caught that one. I wish I could have helped him.

As a writer, I'm concise and precise. I can say a lot in few words, and my stories make you feel that you were there. You'll feel the heat off the car's engine or see the driver's bright-red scarf.

You're welcome to visit and join my Freelance Writers & Editors network on Yahoo at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreelanceWritersAndEditors/.

FOR MY STORIES, please visit http://www.tgwriter.com//id37.html or http://www.tgwriter.com/id40.html. I have two blogs, at http://tg-editor-proofreader.blogspot.com/ and at http://tgwriter-tgilli.blogspot.com/. And there's still more about me at http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?userid=tomgillispie.

You are welcome to contact me through via email (nc3022 at yahoo.com) or via a private message.

Thanks again for visiting my page. Write on.

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