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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell

@mytherea.bsky.social

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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 Luna Station Quarterly, among others. Codex, SFWA. Queer, Ace. She/her. https://linktr.ee/rjhowell

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 4d

On the island!

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.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 5d

Have arrived in Boston after the first leg of my journey to VP! The jellyfish are calling...

Photograph of a sculpture of jellyfish and the ocean floor in the Boston airport.

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Carrie Finison @carriefinison.bsky.social · Sep 22

If you're an author, you're probably fretting over your next bookstore event. Will anyone show up? Will anyone buy the book? Will the floor helpfully open up and swallow you whole so you don't have to face a sea of empty chairs?

But even if no one shows up to your event, it will be OK because 🧵

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 20

And done for now. Very short stream. I need more foliage brushes.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 20

Briefly streaming some painting. Maybe I'll finish those fields... www.twitch.tv/mytherea7v

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 15

More city! With convenient distance fog and vague blocks as buildings! Still need to paint in the farm fields and outer buildings but hey! City!

The same image with the city, but now, there is more city.

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 14

Same, same. Architecture and all those straight, blocky lines are my bane.

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 14

My artist eye, being the artist who painted it, can only wince and go, "but I see so many mistakes...!" I don't think I can maintain the level of detail I have right now, and probably need to do the painting equivalent of throwing a gaussian blur on it for the illusion of distance. *sigh*

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 14

Oh. I...have a lot more to go.

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.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 14

It's been a bit since I posted art. Partly because I've been very busy, but mostly because my attic apartment gets so hot in the summer, I can't run Photoshop (or any complex video game).

Anyway! City is taking form. That one tower in front is my favorite. I wonder how it looks zoomed out...

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.

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Sep 2

Release day was yesterday and once again, I'm late, but yee! "Children of Miracles, Coffins of Brass" is out in the world in this snazzy issue 5 from Trollbreath Magazine! (I believe it will eventually be posted to be read without a subscription but, y'know, there's always instant gratification.)

Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Trollbreath Magazine Issue 5 Fall 2025 Fiction

La Forêt de Fontainebleu,

Les Chasseurs, Le Renard by Aimee Ogden

The Water Dragons of Harney County by B. Morris Allen

The Machines are Hungry by Maressa Voss

Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine by Sarah Pauling

Mary Ann’s Misadventures in Wonderland by Gretchen Tessmer

The Flowers of Empyrean by Michael Piel

Draconis astronomus by Catherine Tavares

A Sea of Laundry by J. M. Bask

Children of Miracles, Coffins of Brass by R. J. Howell

Rashomonster by Michael Allen Rose

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Aug 20

The first half of Worldcon was lovely! The second half...was somewhat limited. Tested positive for Covid, so self-isolated in my hotel room for the rest of the con. -sigh- Next year, maybe. (Still testing positive for Covid, and not feeling all that great, which is why this post is, er, late?)

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Aug 15

At Worldcon in Seattle! There are far more hills than I was expecting. Also, my feet are very sad after 10 days of hiking around followed by...yet more hiking, just now on more concrete. Still having a blast though!

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Aug 11

Mendenhall Glacier! And Nugget Falls off to the side hiding behind the trees (I got much closer to the Falls and have a bunch of photos of it on my camera). It was quite wet today; a reminder that the Tongass is a rainforest...

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.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Aug 10

Taking advantage of being in port to make social media posts! Day...five? Six? of the cruise. So far, I've seen Ketchikan, Sitka, Glacier Bay, Icy Straight Point, and now Skagway. Juneau is tomorrow, then Victoria, then Seattle/Worldcon! Oof, my feet hurt. So much walking, despite being at sea.

View from the cruise ship deck of...some mountain, I'm sure it has a name.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Aug 4

In Seattle and boarding the ship for my first-ever cruise! Yee! I am very excited; I'm going to see Alaska!

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 29

Preordered! That's such a good cover, too.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 28

By chance, I stopped writing yesterday with a lot of 3's? Not planned, unlike some of my other screenshots, which admittedly can be a bit staged.

Niran has been summoned in the middle of the night to meet his god. His god needs to *warn him* next time; he tried to claw the messenger's eyeball out.

Screenshot of a Word document of a novel showing the word count at exactly 33,333 words.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 22

They went on a (short) adventure today. Just to the vet for a monthly shot for the one but the other didn't want to be left behind. A good adventure was had.

Photograph of two old black labs sitting in the back seat of a sedan, excited for their car ride.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 15

The question is...will it remain a novella? Or will it become a short novel? Or, worse, will it instead fall into that difficult-to-market no-man's-land of 50k-60k? We shall see.

Niran is having a really, really bad night, and this is just the beginning. Why am I so mean to my characters?

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.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you!

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you!

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you, thank you!

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you!

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thank you and thank you!