Rich%20RennicksThe Word Hoarder is the blog of Rich Rennicks, a father, writer, gardener and Irish ex-pat residing in the mountains of Western North Carolina. By day I work in publishing, and spend the rest of my time writing, gardening and parenting my kids. This was originally a book blog, but has morphed into a repository of random bits of background research I’m doing for my works-in-progress, a young-adult novel and a travel guide to Ireland.

As somebody shackled to my computer all day, gardening is my escape. Our garden is in hardiness zone 7, on a roughly southeast-facing slope. Happily, we’re only about 2100 feet above sea level, so the weather is not as extreme as it can be in the higher elevations around us.

When not working, reading or ferrying my kids around town, I can usually be found on Twitter or pulling weeds in the garden. You can contact me at RichRennicks [one word, no punctuation] [at] yahoo [dot] com.

*A larger version of the book shelf used as my original header image can be found here, in case you don’t have Superman’s vision.