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  • Tarnished ARC giveaway

    Late-breaking news! My giveaway on Goodreads has gone live, so now you can enter to win a signed ARC before it’s available in stores! Goodreads Book Giveaway Tarnished by Rhiannon Held Giveaway ends April 13, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win

  • Cemetery Photos

    I’ve been neglecting one of my hobbies lately, which is going around to cemeteries and collecting poetry from the oldest stones. I’ve arranged it for you to see here. The archaeologist in me finds the changes in styles over time to be neat, and the writer in me enjoys the simple meaning in some of…

  • My Father

    My father, the scientist: Dad: Your laundry comes home all smooshed and stuffed into bags, and goes out neatly folded. Dad: It’s so nice we can help decrease your entropy.

  • 2013 Signings

    I’ve arranged my signings/readings for Tarnished! They are: May 21, 7 pm, University Bookstore, Seattle May 30, 7 pm, Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, Seattle June 3, 7 pm, Powell’s Books Cedar Hills Crossing, Portland June 14, 5 pm, Hastings Books and Music, Coeur d’Alene (Signing only) If you forget later, you can always…

  • Then a Miracle Occurs

    Outlining is hard. I’m jotting down some notes belatedly tonight on a book later in the Silver series–the sister helped me brainstorm it over the holidays, and I figured it’s been long enough for the ideas to have played survival of the fittest with my memory, and only the coolest ones have survived. When I…

  • Tarnished ARCs

    It’s that time again! Foot surgery has been keeping me a little more silent on the net than I might wish, but I got a present yesterday to go with getting out of the post-op boot: For observant readers who have also read Silver by now–yes, since Andrew last appeared in a photo, I was…

  • Pernicious Childhood Influences

    I’m well aware by this point (due to the invaluable efforts of my critique group and first readers) that I have a tendency to put my British phrasing in the mouths of my American characters without realizing it. I got roundly smacked for having Andrew say that “some breakfast wouldn’t go amiss”. My mother was…

  • Dream Logic

    I had a writing anxiety dream last night–I’ve said it before on this blog, my unconscious is subtle like a brick to the head, so you’ll laugh at how blatant it was–but some of the internal logic of it interested me more than the central narrative. In the dream, I had a different publisher, and…

  • True Family

    So, if I’d ever doubted it, I got a hilarious reminder this Thanksgiving of where I got my genetics from. So on a previous visit to my maternal grandparents’ house, I noticed a brick with an interesting maker’s mark. I asked my coworker to show me where to look it up, and discovered it was…

  • Metaphor for Spoons

    It’s time, boys and girls, for another edition of Unnecessary Metaphors! For the newcomers among us, this is a game where I court inexplicable search engine hits by creating metaphors for things that don’t need them, and in fact probably shouldn’t have them. Something like nine months after my last edition, hits from “metaphor for…

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