Welcome to my little corner of the world.
Relax and have a seat…
My name is E.E. Rawls, and if you like tales with immersive world-building and misfit characters you’ll grow to love, overcoming the odds stacked against them (with a dash of humor thrown in) then you’ve come to the right place!
As for me, I’m the product of a traveling family, who even lived in Italy for 6 years. I love exploring the unknown, whether it be in a forest, inside a forgotten castle, or within the pages of a book. I write stories to both entertain and inspire, creating worlds that one can explore and quickly become lost within… Be careful you don’t lose your way.
Below are some of my books. Learn more about me and all my published works at my official website: eerawls.com.
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository
Download the free prequel story to the coming-of-age fantasy series Draev Guardians: STORM & CHOICE, also included is the first 15 chapters of Strayborn, book #1 in the series: https://mailchi.mp/22a2f2dce8c0/eerawls
The Blog:
Check out Highlights in the above menu for favorite posts, short stories, writing tips, weird legends, facts, and more. Feel free to leave comments and use the social media buttons below posts to share stuff with your friends!
The best way to keep up-to-date with me is through Instagram and the more detailed updates in the newsletters that I send out monthly!
Author Bio:
In short, Rawls is a thinker who ponders why a raven is like a writing desk, a Tolkien fan who wishes she were an Elf but is more like a Hobbit, and an adventurer who loves waffles and roaming the great outdoors! She runs on coffee, cuddly cats and the beauty of nature to keep the story wheels of her mind turning as she writes.
God has guided her every step of the way along this path called life. All the credit goes to Him, for without His help and encouragement she could do nothing.
Excellent site you have here.. It’s difficult to find quality writing
like yours these days. I honestly appreciate
individuals like you! Take care!!
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Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate it.
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I love your slogan!
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Thank you ^_^ It sums up my purpose for writing.
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E., I thought you might be more likely to get my reply to your question here! You asked what font size I ended up using in my print formatting. I used size 10, Palatino Linotye. I think it looks nice and is a good size for me. I have good eye sight (12 years after LASIK, still doing pretty good!), but not great. My book is 5.25″ x 8″; it is 346 pages altogether. I have a 0.63″ gutter; 0.76″ top margin; 0.68″ bottom margin; 0.22″ inside margin; 0.52″ outside margin with ‘mirrored margins’ (which one should do for book compilation).
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Thank you for the detailed input, Rachael! That really helps. And I like the margins you chose, I think I will use those.
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I hope they work for you! I just spent the entire evening trying to format for Smashwords. For some reason it seems much more complicated than Amazon and CreateSpace. haha I doubt it is, but I wish they were all standard. C’est la vie!
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Smashwords, yes XD the formatting is quite a pain as I learned with Bleeding Heart. The reason is Smashwords turns the ebook into many different types/formats of files, not just an epub file like Amazon and Createspace does. But it’s also the reason your ebook can reach online stores and places around the world 🙂 At least, that’s my understanding of it so far.
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True! And so I toil on through the muddled process, intent upon solving another problem. 🙂
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Your blog is fantastic! 😀 I am looking forward to gleaning much here.
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Thank you, Candice! And thanks for hopping over and visiting the blog. 🙂
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Uhm… what happened to your ‘Contact the Author’ page?
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Whoa, thanks for pointing that out! No idea what happened. Will fix!
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LOL. Okay; thought maybe you’d deleted it.
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Haha, no, the url got messed up. X)
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Ah, that makes sense, then. 🙂
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Very interesting site. Good to have found you. Thank you for following my blog. It’s doing some odd things now and will always be a mishmash, but I hope you visit often and always feel welcomed.
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Thank you, and likewise! I like the dVerse poetics you write. Feel free to stop by any time. 🙂
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I do appreciate your words and will definitely stop by!
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Your site looks great! Always happy to connect with another fantasy writer!
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Thank you, Wallace! I’m glad you dropped by. 🙂
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I may have to wait til Wednesday to do the challenge but in the meantime I have nominated you for one as well. I don’t know if you have previously participated but I think it is such a simple yet empowering one, that you should consider giving her a go. The 3 Day, 3 Quote Challenge. Here is a link to mine! http://icameforthesoup.com/2015/08/17/little-yet-fierce-a-quote-3-quotes-challenge/
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Have you changed the artwork on your blog because it looks fab! Love the picture.
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Yes, I did. Thank you! 🙂 It’s been changed for about a month now, I think. Thank you for coming by! I missed you in these parts. 🙂
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Trying to make up for lost time 🙂
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You are a beam of sunshine when you visit, the place brightens. 🙂
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Wow! I only learned just now that you have this book! I’m adding it on my GR to-read list and once I fix my credit card acct, I’m swiping it to get a purchase. Will you be publishing another book soon? 😀
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Thank you so much, Trisha!!! *virtual hug* Bleeding Heart is a collection of all of the poems, riddles, and little stories I wrote since college. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂 And yes, I will be publishing a YA Fantasy novel (hopefully next year) series title “V. Chronicles.” I’m editing it right now, and it’s a looot of work. 🙂
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Wow! I’m a big YA junkie. I’ll add it to my anticipated reads for next year then. I don’t know the exact picture how difficult it is to finish a book but I can imagine it’s soooooo hard! Good luck!
Always,
One of your fans 😀
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I will work my hardest to make it a worthy book! It really is a looooot of work, but hopefully will be well worth it in the end. 🙂 Your encouragment helps. Thank you so much for adding it to your tbr list!
You are the best fan 😀 *virtual hug*
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Hello, just wanted to let you I’ve nominated you for the 3-Day Quote Challenge. 🙂 My post here if you want to do it: https://phoenixgrey85.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/3-day-quote-challenge-day-1/
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I like the wednesday madness idea.. wonderful idea! Gonna explore the blog, just got here but books and stories with cappuccino? hell yes!
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Nice to meet you, Hemangini! Stories and cappuccino are the perfect combination, aren’t they? I hope you enjoy my blog. I’ll hop over and visit yours too. 🙂
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🙂 stories and cappuccino are great.. thanks for visiting my blog
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Hi E.E.
I met you at Donna’s blog party. I am an English teacher, so I appreciate you supporting literacy. I also just became a published author.
Maybe you can check out my blog. Here is a link to my About page, so you can read more about my site.
http://www.mostlyblogging.com/about/
Janice
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Nice to meet you, Janice! Likewise, thank you for being an English teacher and teaching the importance of literature to our young people. Congrats on publishing your first book! I took a look at your blog, very informative and helpful for writers.
Thanks for dropping by! Come back anytime. 🙂
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You’ve got me curious – were you a military kid or was there another reason for the traveling lifestyle? And whereabouts were you in Italy? I attended 1st through half of 4th grade at Camp Darby near Florence. We lived in the little village of Cenaia.
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