Rich Rennicks
@richrennicks.bsky.social
"All I want to do is just sit here and write it all down and rest for a while"
Writer/Screenwriter | Runner | Star Wars Collector | Disney Adult | Swiftie | Getting into vinyl records | Recovering Bookseller
Writer/Screenwriter | Runner | Star Wars Collector | Disney Adult | Swiftie | Getting into vinyl records | Recovering Bookseller
I loved Travis Baldree’s new book, Brigands & Breadknives!
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Did I relate a little too much to the character of Fern, a foul-mouthed writer who’s been a bookseller a little too long? Maybe...
Fans of Legends & Lattes & #cozyfantasy will love this!
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Did I relate a little too much to the character of Fern, a foul-mouthed writer who’s been a bookseller a little too long? Maybe...
Fans of Legends & Lattes & #cozyfantasy will love this!
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I loved Travis Baldree’s new book, Brigands & Breadknives!
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r...
Did I relate a little too much to the character of Fern, a foul-mouthed writer who’s been a bookseller a little too long? Maybe...
Fans of Legends & Lattes & #cozyfantasy will love this!
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r...
Did I relate a little too much to the character of Fern, a foul-mouthed writer who’s been a bookseller a little too long? Maybe...
Fans of Legends & Lattes & #cozyfantasy will love this!
It's hard to write about happy characters, so Viv & Tandri take a backseat to a foul-mouthed Rattkin bookseller, a stoic elf warrior & an absolute lunatic chaos goblin. The results are spectacular!
Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives is out today! 🔪🔪🔪
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Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives is out today! 🔪🔪🔪
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's hard to write about happy characters, so Viv & Tandri take a backseat to a foul-mouthed Rattkin bookseller, a stoic elf warrior & an absolute lunatic chaos goblin. The results are spectacular!
Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives is out today! 🔪🔪🔪
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r...
Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives is out today! 🔪🔪🔪
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r...
Given the popularity of #dragonrider books, I went back to re-read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern after many years, & was a little taken aback by the casual violence towards women. Was curious why it hit differently than in #FourthWing books.
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Rereading The Dragonriders of Pern
Revisiting a series you enjoyed 20 years earlier is not always a pleasant experience.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Given the popularity of #dragonrider books, I went back to re-read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern after many years, & was a little taken aback by the casual violence towards women. Was curious why it hit differently than in #FourthWing books.
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/r...
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/r...
Reposted by Rich Rennicks
Writing can be a lonely business, but it doesn't have to be! Even the best of us go through fallow periods, self-doubt, multiple abandoned drafts. The trick is not to let any of that derail you entirely, or to believe that other writers are your competition. They're your colleagues & your champions.
What sort of message do you hope people take away from your most recent book/wip? #WritingPrompt
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Writing can be a lonely business, but it doesn't have to be! Even the best of us go through fallow periods, self-doubt, multiple abandoned drafts. The trick is not to let any of that derail you entirely, or to believe that other writers are your competition. They're your colleagues & your champions.
Began Sarah Beth Durst’s next book last night: The Faraway Inn (March ‘26). Pretty great so far! My 3rd Durst book this year: safe to say she’s a new favorite!
#cozyfantasy #YA #magicrealism
#cozyfantasy #YA #magicrealism
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Began Sarah Beth Durst’s next book last night: The Faraway Inn (March ‘26). Pretty great so far! My 3rd Durst book this year: safe to say she’s a new favorite!
#cozyfantasy #YA #magicrealism
#cozyfantasy #YA #magicrealism
I reviewed Travis Baldree’s Brigands & Breadknives: “Baldree, with his empathy, compassion, and ability to evoke wonder, turns Fern’s dark night of the soul into a warm tale of found family, adventure, and fresh horizons.”
#fantasy #cozyfantasy
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#fantasy #cozyfantasy
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Review: Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
Brigands & Breadknives takes up a few years after Legends & Lattes, but this time the protagonist is Fern, the rattkin bookseller we met in the prequel novel, Bookshops & Bonedust. Fern…
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November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I reviewed Travis Baldree’s Brigands & Breadknives: “Baldree, with his empathy, compassion, and ability to evoke wonder, turns Fern’s dark night of the soul into a warm tale of found family, adventure, and fresh horizons.”
#fantasy #cozyfantasy
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#fantasy #cozyfantasy
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I cut and stacked the last of the wood (on my property) from trees downed by hurricane Heléne this weekend. My small milestone that feels significant.
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I cut and stacked the last of the wood (on my property) from trees downed by hurricane Heléne this weekend. My small milestone that feels significant.
This one is rapidly growing on me. The Police, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). Before my time in terms of being aware of new music, but full of delicious bass lines & their patented “white reggae.”
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This one is rapidly growing on me. The Police, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). Before my time in terms of being aware of new music, but full of delicious bass lines & their patented “white reggae.”
Didn’t have spending a Sunday night filling out a travel insurance claim because of a cancelled marathon on my bingo card. Adulting is such fun!
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Didn’t have spending a Sunday night filling out a travel insurance claim because of a cancelled marathon on my bingo card. Adulting is such fun!
This week’s new vinyl: Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure, which is simply stunning! Will be obsessed with this one for a while…
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This week’s new vinyl: Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure, which is simply stunning! Will be obsessed with this one for a while…
Impulse buy because this was one of those albums that was always being played in my school days, but I never owned a copy. UB40, Labour of Love (1983). Instant nostalgia overload!
#nowspinning #vinyl
#nowspinning #vinyl
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Impulse buy because this was one of those albums that was always being played in my school days, but I never owned a copy. UB40, Labour of Love (1983). Instant nostalgia overload!
#nowspinning #vinyl
#nowspinning #vinyl
New blog: Publishing Broke Me (or why I stopped reading & writing about books for years... and what renewed my enthusiasm): wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/p...
#books #fantasy #cozyfantasy #reading
#books #fantasy #cozyfantasy #reading
Publishing Broke Me…
Publishing finally broke me. A life-long reader, writer, and true-believer in the church of books, I went into bookselling eagerly after college and jumped into publishing a decade later, working f…
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October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New blog: Publishing Broke Me (or why I stopped reading & writing about books for years... and what renewed my enthusiasm): wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/p...
#books #fantasy #cozyfantasy #reading
#books #fantasy #cozyfantasy #reading
A romance writer on my LinkedIn feed is crowing about how much easier it is to write 1-minute scripts than 300-page novels. I suspect the shorts she’s scripting are made with AI. Doesn’t seem a great career move to train the machine…
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A romance writer on my LinkedIn feed is crowing about how much easier it is to write 1-minute scripts than 300-page novels. I suspect the shorts she’s scripting are made with AI. Doesn’t seem a great career move to train the machine…
Review: A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid.
"a lively but troubling visit with old friends"
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#Fantasy #DarkAcademia #YA #Romantasy
"a lively but troubling visit with old friends"
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#Fantasy #DarkAcademia #YA #Romantasy
Review: A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid
The sequel to A Study in Drowning picks up where the first book left off, with our romantic heroes, Effy and Preston, having written their academic paper to reveal the true authorship of their nati…
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October 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Review: A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid.
"a lively but troubling visit with old friends"
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/a...
#Fantasy #DarkAcademia #YA #Romantasy
"a lively but troubling visit with old friends"
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/a...
#Fantasy #DarkAcademia #YA #Romantasy
Magnificent writer! Gone too young.
Fear iontach, glic, greannmhar, cinéalta é. A one-of-a-kind advocate for nature, empathy and the Irish language. Manchán was always a joy to be around. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
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October 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Magnificent writer! Gone too young.
They say start your day with quick, easy wins. I try to knock off 3 phone calls. Third is busy, but will call me back "in a few minutes." Two hours later, still waiting. There goes the morning...
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
They say start your day with quick, easy wins. I try to knock off 3 phone calls. Third is busy, but will call me back "in a few minutes." Two hours later, still waiting. There goes the morning...
Thoroughly Dad morning: changed furnace filters & ran the heat with the doors open to get that lovely burnt-dust smell out of the system/house. (Cold snap coming…) Also cleaned and descaled the coffee maker. Such a glamorous life! May clean dishwasher filters later…
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thoroughly Dad morning: changed furnace filters & ran the heat with the doors open to get that lovely burnt-dust smell out of the system/house. (Cold snap coming…) Also cleaned and descaled the coffee maker. Such a glamorous life! May clean dishwasher filters later…
Spring of 1992 I first heard Tori Amos in a friend's gaff. I dubbed a copy & listened to her for months.
Today, I got my hands on a vinyl copy of Little Earthquakes & it’s like listening to the album for the first time.
Today, I got my hands on a vinyl copy of Little Earthquakes & it’s like listening to the album for the first time.
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Spring of 1992 I first heard Tori Amos in a friend's gaff. I dubbed a copy & listened to her for months.
Today, I got my hands on a vinyl copy of Little Earthquakes & it’s like listening to the album for the first time.
Today, I got my hands on a vinyl copy of Little Earthquakes & it’s like listening to the album for the first time.
Exciting news! Apparently Ferrari want me as their new social media manager. Truly remarkable how the caliber of random job offers I receive by email gets better by the week. I didn't even apply! Wonder why they keep going to my spam folder, though?
August 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Exciting news! Apparently Ferrari want me as their new social media manager. Truly remarkable how the caliber of random job offers I receive by email gets better by the week. I didn't even apply! Wonder why they keep going to my spam folder, though?
After a ten-year gap, I dusted off my old book blog and started posting reviews again: wordhoarder.wordpress.com
Why? Absolutely no idea -- except I'm finally enjoying reading fiction again & felt I should be a better literary citizen.
Forgive the 2009 wordpress aesthetics...
Why? Absolutely no idea -- except I'm finally enjoying reading fiction again & felt I should be a better literary citizen.
Forgive the 2009 wordpress aesthetics...
August 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
After a ten-year gap, I dusted off my old book blog and started posting reviews again: wordhoarder.wordpress.com
Why? Absolutely no idea -- except I'm finally enjoying reading fiction again & felt I should be a better literary citizen.
Forgive the 2009 wordpress aesthetics...
Why? Absolutely no idea -- except I'm finally enjoying reading fiction again & felt I should be a better literary citizen.
Forgive the 2009 wordpress aesthetics...
How do you write a great sequel to a popular fantasy that appeared to give everyone their happily ever after? In The Enchanted Greenhouse, Sarah Beth Durst delivers another wonderful, comic, & cozy romantasy!
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#booksky #fantasy #romantasy #books
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#booksky #fantasy #romantasy #books
Review: The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
To this reader, it seemed a difficult task to come up with a sequel to Durst’s wonderful novel The Spellshop, because, as was befitting any romance novel, we got the happy ending with all the plot …
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August 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How do you write a great sequel to a popular fantasy that appeared to give everyone their happily ever after? In The Enchanted Greenhouse, Sarah Beth Durst delivers another wonderful, comic, & cozy romantasy!
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/r...
#booksky #fantasy #romantasy #books
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#booksky #fantasy #romantasy #books
Last 5 concerts I attended:
Taylor Swift
Bruce Springsteen
Ed Sheeran
Lizzo
Chvrches
Sadly those are across 4 years, so I clearly need to go to more shows.
Taylor Swift
Bruce Springsteen
Ed Sheeran
Lizzo
Chvrches
Sadly those are across 4 years, so I clearly need to go to more shows.
Last five concerts I attended?
The Lemonheads
Ministry
Kendrick Lamar & SZA
Lana del Rey
Pink Martini
The Lemonheads
Ministry
Kendrick Lamar & SZA
Lana del Rey
Pink Martini
August 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Last 5 concerts I attended:
Taylor Swift
Bruce Springsteen
Ed Sheeran
Lizzo
Chvrches
Sadly those are across 4 years, so I clearly need to go to more shows.
Taylor Swift
Bruce Springsteen
Ed Sheeran
Lizzo
Chvrches
Sadly those are across 4 years, so I clearly need to go to more shows.
Started #writing a new short story this morning. Managed to delete the first 500 words without saving… re-wrote the opening and managed to finish the scene without further mishap. Baby steps…
August 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Started #writing a new short story this morning. Managed to delete the first 500 words without saving… re-wrote the opening and managed to finish the scene without further mishap. Baby steps…
The finale of Rebecca Thorne’s Tomes & Tea series, Alchemy & a Cup of Tea, underlines what an evocative, funny, & generally damn-good writer Thorne has become.
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#bookreview #cozyfantasy #spoilers #romantasy #fantasy
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#bookreview #cozyfantasy #spoilers #romantasy #fantasy
August 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The finale of Rebecca Thorne’s Tomes & Tea series, Alchemy & a Cup of Tea, underlines what an evocative, funny, & generally damn-good writer Thorne has become.
wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/a...
#bookreview #cozyfantasy #spoilers #romantasy #fantasy
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#bookreview #cozyfantasy #spoilers #romantasy #fantasy
If you, like me, are a creative feeling stalked by ads for Matteo di Pascale's The Creative Ambush, I offer some thoughts: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/r... TLDR: it's interesting, potentially useful. Mileage may vary.
Review: The Creative Ambush by Matteo di Pascale
The Creative Ambush: How to Unleash Your Creative Fire Into the World is a book designed to shake up your creative process, kickstart creative projects you’ve been keeping on the back burner,…
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August 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you, like me, are a creative feeling stalked by ads for Matteo di Pascale's The Creative Ambush, I offer some thoughts: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/r... TLDR: it's interesting, potentially useful. Mileage may vary.