Author: Rachael Ritchey

  • Mad Mona and the Special Robe

    Oh, how I love Mad Mona. She’s just crazy enough to be fun. Last time I wrote about her she was in a spaghetti eating contest. Today she’s got some issues with her favorite royal robe. Here’s some flash fiction for your reading pleasure. #BlogBattle: Deterge She squints her eyes down at the label, pressing…

  • Interview with Up-and-Coming Author Nicholas Hughes

    Hey all! It’s been a while since I’ve done an interview, and I was finally able to rope my good friend and fellow author Nicholas Hughes into spending some quality time with us. PLUS we get a bonus today. I’m not kidding! It’s a real live bonus you haven’t seen anywhere else. What is it? Well,…

  • Birth of Loglines & Beyond | A Guest Post by Author Ann Kimbrough

    The ability to write loglines is incredibly important in today’s writing and publishing environment, whether you write books or scripts.

  • Sacrifice of Sacrilege #Blogbattle 71

    #BlogBattle 71: Sacrilege genre: fantasy Pious and pure, her life had been lived within the sanctity of the walls of the Goodness of Holuvenius. Only women, some young but most old, were allowed within this sanctuary, but unbenounced to their Most High Matron of Holuvenius, Clarity had stepped outside the bounds and brought upon them…

  • Unforgotten Derelict

    Blogbattle 70 “Derelict” genre: drama He was a derelict, wandering the country with no home, no family, no one to remember his name. Most of the time he didn’t even remember his own name. The cloudy day he’d lost everything still tasted gray upon his tongue, but he’d no one else to blame. No. Joshua’s…

  • Review: Captive Hope (book 2)

    Originally posted on The AR Critique: ? Synopsis: The Twelve Realms seems an idyllic nation, but behind locked doors, there are sinister powers at work. Not even the royal family of High Castle is outside their reach, and Lady Idra has unwittingly placed herself in the crosshairs of a shrewd mercenary. Idra is noble by…

  • Hazel #BlogBattle 69

    #BlogBattle 69 “Hazel” genre: Western “Gol durn it, woman! Alls I want is one little kiss. That ain’t askin’ too much, is it?” Jesse slapped his dusty stetson against his hip sending a cloud of fine dirt wafting through the air. He coughed on it and waved the hat around, stirring up more dirt and…

  • Meandering Menagerie

    #BlogBattle: Menagerie genre: inspiration/children’s fic Beauty upon beauty. Legend upon legend. The menagerie was more than a zoo, more than a place to keep and display wild animals. It was her home. She’d grown up there and never left the confines of its walls. She couldn’t imagine a better place to live and play, and…