Rachael Ritchey

Category: Personal Life Tidbits

  • CotTR Special Edition Hardbacks are here!

    Today’s the day! Yes, even on a Monday! Why these special edition hardbacks now? I’m so thrilled to share with you about The Chronicles of the Twelve Realms hardbacks. It’s been almost ten years since I started writing this series. In fact, it was the very end of December 2013 that I cried out to…

  • Where Did Rachael Disappear To?

    Where Did Rachael Disappear To?

    Once upon a time there was an author, a writer, a blogger, a woman. She loved her community of readers and writers, but one day she disappeared. No warning, no word, not even a trace. Hello! I’m back! I’m clawing my way out of the fog of life and all the things that can bog…

  • Join me as a guest on the QWERTY Writing Life podcast

    I’m so thrilled that I was welcomed as a guest on the QWERTY Writing Life podcast, hosted by authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith. On this episode of their podcast for creatives we talked about finding creative balance and had a fun, candid talk about balancing creative pursuits with other work and parts of…

  • What Some Writers Do When They Should be NaNoing

    I convinced myself over the last couple months to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), but I didn’t have time to plan and prep like I would have liked. This, for someone who thought they were mostly a panster only to realize they are NOT, was a huge mistake. I struggled for the first…

  • 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?…

  • What I’ve been drawing . . .

    I’ve got this idea, and I’m not done with it yet, but I wanted to see if what I imagined in my head is going to work. And I think once I’ve finished the project it will be just what I wanted, but it might take some time. And then, I got this idea for…

  • “Serve Your Family.”

    There was a 60Minutes spotlight on Frank Hall, who became known as the hero he’s always been two years ago during the shooting at Chardon High. He doesn’t think of himself that way, but he is; he risked his life to protect the kids in that room, standing in the gap. What happened there and at many,…

  • Riley Meets Silver Surfer

    Okay, so all my kids have caught the writing bug. My seven-year old wrote a story for the #BlogBattle: Silver, but he forgot to save the file before he went to bed and lost it. He was really upset by this, so I offered to type it up for him while he told me the…