Rachael Ritchey

Author: Rachael Ritchey

  • 7 Ways Blogging Makes You a Better Creative Writer

    Reblog from I Came for the Soup with Candice Coates! Escapades of an Indie Author & Publisher by Rachael Ritchey: 7 Ways Blogging Makes You a Better Creative Writer Excerpt: First off, I gotta say thanks to Candice for this chance to share on her blog! It’s not every day I get the opportunity, and she…

  • #BlogBattle 59 “Voice” Entries & Voting

    #BlogBattle 59 “Voice” Entries & Voting

    #BlogBattle 59 Story Theme: Voice (basic rules at the bottom of the post) *** Please, please don’t be afraid to tell me if I’ve missed adding your story! I don’t want to leave any out, and I’d rather you bopped me on the head than miss your contribution! Thanks. ***  Post your story by 11:59 PM…

  • How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing

    In the indie publishing world it doesn’t take much to feel overwhelmed, and for some this means giving up before ever truly starting. It doesn’t matter if you’ve barely written a page of your book or have finished it (even going so far as to have it edited and uploaded to your preferred publishing avenue),…

  • Beta What? Why Indie Authors Don’t Exist in a Vacuum

    As a writer, just starting out and afraid to tell anyone I was writing, I couldn’t imagine having anyone look at the title let alone the very essence of the story I had so painstakingly laid upon the altar of paper. I could have easily been living in a vacuum of space, a gap in…

  • It’s All Fun and Games

    #BlogBattle “Float” – It’s All Fun and Games Genre: Suspense/Contemporary Drama A spark of something orange flashed before my eyes, and I flinched back. A sulfur sort of smell burned my nostrils, but I couldn’t see anything after the flash. It was totally dark, and the cold damp of the sandy floor under my bare…

  • Week 58 “Float” Entries & Voting

    #BlogBattle 58 Story Theme: Float (basic rules at the bottom of the post) *** Please, please don’t be afraid to tell me if I’ve missed adding your story! I don’t want to leave any out, and I’d rather you bopped me on the head than miss your contribution! Thanks. ***  Post your story by 11:59 PM…

  • The Treasonous Ways of Men Are On My Mind

    WORK IN PROGRESS!  WIP-ping it out here. haha Okay, so this is totally first draft stuff, but I thought today would be a good day (sunny and bright) to share an excerpt from my current WIP, The Treasonous. This is the third book in the Chronicles of the Twelve Realms, and it’s coming together kind…

  • The Show Must Go On

    #BlogBattle: Ticket Some people make it through their entire lives without incident. ‘Some people’ were not Gloria VanGlidden. No, Gloria was a walking, talking disaster of an incident. Not a day went by without something sidelining her activity. And it didn’t seem to matter how well she kept her day planner organized either. “Oh, snot…