Rachael Ritchey

Author: Rachael Ritchey

  • Writer, is Formatting Your Manuscript a Headache?

    How it looks and how it works do matter! In my time as a book formatter, I’ve also learned that there are a wide variety of ways to incorrectly format a manuscript. The problems start back at the very beginning, and that’s why I think it’s important for us authors to learn how to format…

  • Sword, Shield, and Love: A #BlogBattle Story

    Every once in a while someone I know will want to participate in BlogBattle who doesn’t have a blog of their own, so sometimes I will post their story on my blog. Please enjoy this funny yet tragic tale of love, zombies, and the end of the world as we know it. Sword, Shield, and…

  • Writer’s Block? Is it a Thing?

    This is a great video from Jerry B. Jenkins that explains what we are really struggling with when it comes to that amorphous thing called Writer’s Block. In the video, Mr. Jenkins discusses in simple terms the controversial view about it not being writer’s block that we’re suffering from. I tend to agree with him,…

  • Only Time Will Tell #BlogBattle #flashfiction #Intercept

    August 2019 Blog Battle Word Prompt: INTERCEPT “Only Time Will Tell” By Rachael Ritchey June glanced at her watch. The analog hands pointed opposite directions. She tapped the glass and frowned. “Three forty-five. Fifteen minutes until–” She gasped. Glancing left and right, June stepped out in the road and dashed to the far sidewalk. Cars…

  • Stickin’ it to the Kritiks (sic) w/R. J. Llewellyn

    Some of you are familiar with our good writing friend on WP, Roger Jacob of Woebegone but Hopeful, Heroically Bad Writers fame. As an author, he goes by R. J. Llewellyn, but no matter how you’re familiar with him, you might not have known his blog site had a disastrous issue over the last few…

  • New Release Review: Oath of the Outcast by C. M. Banschbach

    It is HERE!!!! I have been looking forward to this book ever since the first time I heard mention of this mysterious Mountain Baron with a rocky past. Here’s the synopsis (it screams: READ ME!) A lost brother.  An unwilling outlaw.  A rising enemy.  An unusual alliance.  Years ago, Rhys MacDuffy was brutally cut off…

  • From Homebody to International Traveler!

    Guess what! You’ll never guess. I’ll just tell you. I’m going to Ireland! Yes, in just a week, I’ll be taking a hop, skip and jump over the Atlantic Ocean to the green isle of Ireland where I’ll be with my family for two whole weeks! I cannot believe it. Why can’t I believe it?…

  • Author Interview with Joy E. Rancatore & The Crux Celebration

    It’s been six months since the publication of The Crux Anthology! There’s so much to say about this book, why it was made, who participated, what to expect, and a little about what it’s like to be an author, so Joy E. Rancatore from Logos & Mythos Press took some time out of her day…