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About

About

FOR RACHEL RHOADES, TO BE IS TO TELL STORIES.

As a child she drew characters and maps and made up stories to tell her sisters. Before writing her first book, she created several indie film projects with fellow aspiring artists (which can be viewed on her YouTube channel Rhoadeside Productions). Perpetually torn between wanderlust and homesickness, she lives in her childhood hometown in Montana but has also journeyed all over Europe and Japan. Her day jobs include seven years of administrative assistance in the legal field, as an intern file clerk, legal assistant, paralegal, and now office manager. She still enjoys making films as a hobby. But after completing her first mystery novel, she’s hooked, and is pursuing a long-term career as an author. 

Pen Names

PHYLLIS RAY

Phyllis - A mysterious (and somewhat convoluted) homage to her childhood, her sisters, and their imaginary friends.

 

Ray - Short for Raynard, short for Rachel, and a favorite nickname.

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ELANOR RAYNARD

Elanor - From The Lord of the Rings. Sam’s oldest daughter, to whom he gives the Red Book of Westmarch; emblematic of receiving storytelling inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien.

 

Raynard - Echoing her favorite mystery author Josephine Tey, who wrote under a grandmother’s name; a family surname of Rachel’s own maman, from whom she received her love of words.

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There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry –

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll –

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human Soul –

EMILY DICKINSON

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© RACHEL RHOADES 2022 | Photos courtesy of Mary Christian

 

All other content original unless otherwise stated.

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