Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell

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Spec fic writer and digital artist. Publishes under R. J. Howell. Stonecoast MFA grad. Fiction in Worlds of Possibility, Giganotosaurus, Flame Tree, and Heartlines Spec, among others. Codex, SFWA. Queer, Ace. She/them. https://linktr.ee/rjhowell

Screenshot of a novel in progress at 50,000 words.
Title slide that reads "Starfall, Queer Space Opera Adventure, 139,000 words, R. J. Howell."
Screenshot of a novel in progress at 37,000 words.
Screenshot of a new book! And at 20,000 words to boot!
Photograph of a stack of 10 books I received at the American Library Association conference last weekend. They are a mix of hard covers and advanced reader copies.
WIP sketch of two elf men sparring with swords, one with a sword and dagger and the other with a two handed greatsword.
Meme of Gru from Despicable Me in front of a sign. The sign reads "Revise and tidy up draft for beta readers!" "Remove 100s of words in edits!" "Add 100s of other words, also in edits." Gru looks very disapointed at that last.
Doodle/sketch of Eren and Kel, two telepathic elf dudes, sitting back-to-back, almost touching but not quite, and posing with various sharp cutlery (Kel is holding a sheathed sword, Eren has a bare dagger near his feet.
Eren in a combat-stance, swinging his hologram sword and looking very intense. He's wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and his feet are bare.
A rather elfy looking Eren holding a transparent sword. There is a floating dialogue box sprouting from the sword, since it's a hologram, not actually real. Eren is dressed in a t-shirt with his hair tied back.
Doodle/sketch of Eren and Lae standing next to each other dressed in shorts and t-shirts. Eren is staring at the camera looking embarrassed and blushing. Lae is smirking at him, completely misreading the source of his embarrassment.
Doodle/sketch of a very elfy man in a t-shirt and comfy pants drinking from a very large mug and reading a floating hologram screen of a textbook.
Doodle/sketch of two people sitting side by side in clear exhaustion. The one on the right admonishes the other in a speech bubble, saying "Never do that again."
Doodle/sketch of Eren looking particularly elfy with a sword and fancy embroidered clothing, but sitting in a chair in an unorthodox way with his knees drawn up, hands on knees, and chin on hands.
Sketch/doodle of Rigby, with their arms crossed and their expression rather neutrally amused.
Sketch/doodle of Kel, looking far angrier than usual. Like Eren, he is a space elf, so pointy ears and scrawny build.
Sketch/doodle of Maddie surrounded by a bunch of floating hologram screens and gesturing at them.
Doodle/sketch of Koda, a person with a human body and a snow leopard head, holding a tablet device with a pen and staring at the viewer.
Sketch/doodle of Ta'elae looking vaguely off into the distance with one hand on her hip.
Doodle/sketch of Starfall's elfy main character, Eren, holding a cup of coffee or tea or something steamy and looking pensive.
Photograph of a hover pen, a metal ballpoint pen with magnets in the cap that allow it to rest suspended upright in the holder as if without gravity. There is piece of meteorite embedded in the end.
Screenshot of the end of Starfall, complete at 140,450 words!
Screenshot of a Word document of a novel showing 133,133 words as the total word count.
Screenshot of a Word document of a novel in progress at 123,456 words.
A screenshot of a Word document of a novel at 115,057 words.
Screenshot of a Word document of an untitled novel in progress. The word count meter reads 70,000 words exactly.
Screenshot of a novel in progress at 50,845 words. There is a little text from the novel along the right side, but not enough to form complete sentences.
A screenshot of a Word document at 30,200 words. On the right, some text from the new novel is visible.
Digital pencil sketch of three figures. One is a man with sad eyebrows (really, he isn't half as tragic as his face suggests) and wearing fancy vestments. Behind him is another man in armor with a spear and is smiling. Behind him is another figure seen from the back which is mostly just a lot of long hair and swoopy robes.
A screenshot of a novel in progress with the word count stopped at 69,420.
Work in progress of a painting depicting a haggard-looking man standing in front of/beside a somewhat aggressive bipedal feathered dinosaur with a saddle on its back. In the background is a dirt road, and, to the left, a city at the base of some mountains. The sky has been painted in, the mountains, the city, and some of the midground foliage. Most of the foreground remains simply blocked in. The two figures in the front are painted flat black. Now, wider!
Work in progress of a painting depicting a haggard-looking man standing in front of/beside a somewhat aggressive bipedal feathered dinosaur with a saddle on its back. In the background is a dirt road, and, to the left, a city at the base of some mountains. The sky has been painted in, the mountains, the city, and some of the midground foliage. Most of the foreground remains simply blocked in. The two figures in the front are painted flat black.
Photograph of a fountain pen resting on page of an ink test. The paper reads, "Test! Oooh, this is a very pretty grass green. Free Ink!"
Photograph of three slim fountain pens with abstract swirls and patterns on them. There's metallic inlay that is textured to the touch. One is green, one is red and orange, and one is a very dark purple.
A photograph of two jellyfish themed fountain pens, a bottle of ink, and a pack of ink cartridges in the color called "writer's blood."
Photo of the cover of What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher. There is a receipt serving as a bookmark.
An art sculpture of jellyfish swimming in the Boston airport.
Photograph of the rising sun over the ocean. There is a beach and a little jetty of rocks.
Photograph of the view from the ferry pier on Martha's Vinyard. There is a beach to the left and trees and houses, and a handful of boats to the right.
Photograph of a sculpture of jellyfish and the ocean floor in the Boston airport.
The same image with the city, but now, there is more city.
The city is quite small, compared to the rest of the painting. Those towers are, maybe, the size of a pinky nail, and most of the buildings are even smaller.
Work in progress shot of a city scape. So far, there's a city wall and a pair of domed towers and some houses. Most of the city is just formless blocks of color without any detail.
A very cloudy and foggy picture of Mendenhall Glacier. The glacier seems to spill between two mountains. Off to the side is Nugget Falls, a very large waterfall.
View from the cruise ship deck of...some mountain, I'm sure it has a name.
Screenshot of a Word document of a novel showing the word count at exactly 33,333 words.
Photograph of two old black labs sitting in the back seat of a sedan, excited for their car ride.
Screenshot of a Word document showing a word count of 30,067 words. The final two lines that are visible read: Oh gods. Oh gods, he had thought he was about to die.
Work in progress of a painting depicting a haggard-looking man standing in front of/beside a somewhat aggressive bipedal feathered dinosaur with a saddle on its back. In the background is a dirt road, and, to the left, a city at the base of some mountains. The sky has been painted in and most of the background color has been blocked in. The two figures in the front are painted flat black.
A screenshot of a Word document at 11,000 words exactly. A little of the document is visible on the side, but not complete sentences.
Work in progress of a painting depicting a haggard-looking man standing in front of/beside a somewhat aggressive bipedal feathered dinosaur with a saddle on its back. In the background is a dirt road, and, to the left, a city at the base of some mountains. The sky has been painted in and a distant mountain range is being blocked in with color.
Work in progress of a painting depicting a haggard-looking man standing in front of/beside a somewhat aggressive bipedal feathered dinosaur with a saddle on its back. In the background is a dirt road, and, to the left, a city at the base of some mountains. Much of the sky has been painted in.
Sketch of a painting depicting a haggard-looking man standing in front of/beside a somewhat aggressive bipedal feathered dinosaur with a saddle on its back. In the background is a dirt road, and, to the left, a city at the base of some mountains. There's some squiggles in the sky that suggest clouds.
Full screenshot of the last page of Prophecy's Mandate with a big, ol' END written at the bottom marking the completion of this book. The information window reads 246,393 words and 497 pages.
Photograph of three Magic The Gathering cards. One is Gimli, Counter of Kills, one is Legolas, Counter of Kills, and one is Friendly Rivalry, which references both characters.
Photo of me holding more Magic The Gathering cards. Most of the pack is LotR. One card is definitely not.
A photo of me holding 12 Magic the Gathering cards. All but one are from the Lord of the Rings set. There is one shapeshifter from a different set in the middle.
Photo of me holding an unopened booster pack of Magic the Gathering cards from the Lord of the Rings set.