Rachel E. PollockDec 1, 20151 minOn the technical writing/process documentation front...A few updates of note in the realms of the academic and theatrical: The most recent episode of the ThankYou10 podcast features the...
Rachel E. PollockAug 27, 20151 minUSITT-Southeast ConferenceI'm a featured presenter of costume and properties topics at the upcoming USITT Southeast regional conference, to be held at the...
Rachel E. PollockNov 6, 20141 minFind me at the NCWN Fall Conference!Such exciting news--I've been awarded a full scholarship to attend the North Carolina Writers Network Fall Conference, coming up in...
Rachel E. PollockOct 29, 20142 minUpcoming Event: "Finding Vivian Maier" at the Ackland Film ForumSo thrilled to announce that i'll be giving the introduction to the Ackland Film Forum's screening of the documentary, Finding Vivian...
Rachel E. PollockSep 23, 20144 minThe Right to ReinventionYou might wonder what this has to do with my writing, but bear with me. The Drag Queen Debacle might be what finally cuts the Facebook...
Rachel E. PollockSep 2, 20142 minQueryTracker.net interviewOne of the resources and tools i used in my search for a literary agent was the website QueryTracker.net. They're a database of literary...
Rachel E. PollockAug 26, 20143 minliterary agency and flagrant oenophiliaI’m a fairly flagrant and unrepentant oenophile. So, when i was deep in revisions on the manuscript of The Decadence Papers, one of the...
Rachel E. PollockJul 18, 20144 minhow do you put your boots on?I was talking to a friend the other night about the writing of The Decadence Papers, how it came about in the first place and what my...
Rachel E. PollockJun 23, 20144 minWriting Process Blog TourSo, my super-fantabulous, brilliant colleague and fellow writer Margaret Peot tagged me in the Writing Process Blog Tour. Margaret is a...
Rachel E. PollockJun 9, 20142 minSpotify spins the music of DecadenceThis image was taken in 1999 by my friend Sue Travers, in the DJ booth of Boston's oldest established permanent floating goth club,...
Rachel E. PollockJun 2, 20141 minwino forever.I bought this bottle of wine several months ago, with the plan that i wouldn't open it til i finished revisions on my novel. I bought it...
Rachel E. PollockMay 26, 20142 minRytographyAll these mindbendingly fabulous photos on my site were taken by the lovely and talented Ryan A. S. Jones, of Rytography. I first met...
Rachel E. PollockApr 21, 20142 minshiny shinyIt may sound strange, but the whole reason i even went back and revised the manuscript of The Decadence Papers for potential publication...
Rachel E. PollockApr 7, 20143 minBackstory: Reflected Light/Luce ReflessaSo, this picture is me holding up the Italian zine Ruggine, open to a page in the translation of my short story, "Reflected Light." The...
Rachel E. PollockApr 6, 20142 minBackstory: Shake SugareeI had this idea that it might be fun to do some meta-writing in this section of the website, and tell some stories about...
Rachel E. PollockMar 29, 20141 minI'm on Goodreads now!I mean, i've been on Goodreads as a reader for a couple of years now, but now I'm on there also as a Goodreads Author! Exciting. It's...
Rachel E. PollockMar 25, 20141 minGenesis?First bit of news for the site is that the site exists. It feels deeply odd and cyclically self-referential, like standing between two...