Hello! I'm Rae, a writer, editor, and artist in Indianapolis.
Featured & Recent Writing:
- 9 Dec 2025: A guest blog post for Tina Marie Cox’s blog, Let’s Be Real: “Birds, Seeds, and Work That Matters”
- 12 April 2024: A guest blog post for Elevate Design Co.: “Art and the Church: Bringing Beauty and Hope”
- Jan 2023: Started a new free publication on Substack, Letters from Rae Botsford End.
- 10 Sept 2022: An essay on Geeks Under Grace: “The Gift of Death: The Good Place, Star Trek: Picard, The Silmarillion, and the Holy Bible”, in which I bring up a media trend that tries to solve the meaning of life and the meaning of death with one another, and talk about what’s wrong with that philosophy from a biblical perspective.
Currently working on:
- One speculative fiction novel
- My Substack, about quarterly
- Just completed editing the sci-fi adventure Gannon: The Prophet of Fomalhaut by Mark Weber, and planning to start into the sequel soon.
Ba'byl is a short story about a thief...
“Ba’byl” is a short story about a thief who journeys to a failing city and asks the queen why she built it to begin with. It’s a story about what we value.
Why do we value what we can’t have?
Read the whole short story on Amazon now! You can read it with Kindle, including the free Kindle app for iOS and Android, and Amazon Cloud Reader in your regular browser on your desktop or laptop computer.
(It’s a good lunchtime read.)
