Rainee Steigerwald (Author)

Author of thought-provoking thrillers where faith meets science and every answer raises a bigger question. The conversation starts on page one.

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

I have all this fucking creative energy trapped inside a corporate job that keeps interfering with my dream of becoming a starving artist.

Except I don’t actually want to starve.

I want to be a well-fed artist. A financially stable, creatively unhinged, full-belly artist who writes books, makes art, and occasionally forgets what day it is.

Is that really so much to ask?

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

@Mary_ork I’m working hard to put the finishing touches on my manuscript! In the meantime, I’d love it if you’d share my author page so others can follow along on my writing journey. There’s a lot more in the works, and I’m excited to see where it all goes! ❤️

https://t.co/RYFPfufYIs

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

@_Bethdesigns She does not know what uses her hands when she sleeps…..

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

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[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

What is love?

I’ve been thinking about that word lately. Love.

I think love comes in two very different packages.

There’s the unconditional kind. The love you have for your children. The love that comes from somewhere so deep inside you that it doesn’t need to be taught, explained, or earned. It’s instinct. It’s intuition. It’s an emotion that exists without needing anything in return.

And then there’s the other kind. The kind we’ve been sold since we were little girls.

The prince. The castle. The knight in shining armor. The man who climbs the tower, slays the dragon, and rescues us from whatever miserable existence we’re apparently incapable of escaping ourselves.

What a load of bullshit.

Somewhere along the way, we taught little girls to wait for someone to love them instead of teaching them how to love themselves.

We taught them to dream about being chosen instead of teaching them that they have a choice.

We taught them that happily ever after comes when someone else arrives.

And maybe that’s where we got it all wrong.

Because love without self-respect isn’t some grand romantic tragedy. And sacrificing every piece of yourself to keep someone else’s love isn’t a fairy tale. It’s a pretty shitty deal.

I’m not saying romantic love doesn’t exist. Of course it does. But I wonder how much of what we call love is actually love, and how much is conditioning, attachment, fear of being alone, or simply the desperate need to feel wanted.

We’ve turned love into an industry. Heart-shaped boxes, overpriced flowers, diamond rings, and one designated day a year to prove how much someone means to us.

Hell, we’ve managed to put a price tag on an emotion.

Maybe love isn’t the bullshit word.

Maybe it’s everything we’ve been taught that word is supposed to mean.

And maybe the greatest love story we should have been teaching little girls all along was the one where they rescue themselves.

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

Well, hello, X!

I’m Rainee Steigerwald. Aspiring author, professional overthinker, and someone whose imagination apparently has no adult supervision.

I write stories that don’t always fit neatly into a genre. They’re dark, thought-provoking, sometimes disturbing, occasionally funny, and hopefully the kind that stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.

I want to tell the stories no one else is telling. The ones that make you question things, feel things, or call someone and say, “You HAVE to read this.”

I’m just an aspiring author trying to find my little corner of the literary world, one wonderfully strange story at a time.

If you love books, creative minds, dark humor, or cheering on someone chasing a dream, I’d love to connect.

Come visit my little writing world. There’s more behind the door than you might expect.

https://t.co/DrR3OlzedX

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

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[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

I’m 53 years old, and I’m so fucking tired of this shit.

Seriously. At what point do we, as Americans, collectively say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

Every day it’s something new. Another political circus. Another crisis. Another election. Another promise that THIS time things will change.

Meanwhile, everything costs a damn fortune, young adults in their 20s and 30s can barely afford to live independently, and even two-income households are struggling to save enough for retirement.

We did what we were supposed to do, right? Work hard. Build careers. Pay taxes. Raise families. Save for the future.

And what exactly is the reward? More bills? More years of working? A couple of weeks of PTO if we’re lucky?

And retirement? The full Social Security retirement age is already 67 for my generation, and there are discussions about raising it even further.

I GET IT. We’re living longer. Medical advances are incredible.

BUT FOR FUCK’S SAKE, WHEN DO WE ACTUALLY GET TO LIVE?

I want to travel. Explore this beautiful world. Wake up on a random Tuesday and decide to go to the beach without calculating PTO or worrying about retirement.

And here’s the thing: I know how fortunate I am.

I CAN take time off. I CAN travel. I CAN enjoy experiences that others simply cannot afford.

But I personally know hardworking people my age who can’t afford to take ONE DAY off. I won’t name them because some are right here on my Facebook, and their circumstances are private.

These are people who’ve worked their entire adult lives, done everything they were told they should do, and are STILL struggling.

HOW IS THAT ACCEPTABLE?

Meanwhile, Washington is busy fighting over who’s red, who’s blue, what women can do with their bodies, and how other people choose to identify and live.

Can we PLEASE just let people live?

And maybe it’s my background in process improvement, but when something consistently fails in business, we examine the root cause, fix the process, and hold leadership accountable.

We don’t just replace the person in charge every few years and pretend we’ve solved the problem.

So why the hell do we keep accepting that in government?

I’m not interested in another Republican-versus-Democrat argument. I’m interested in results.

I want young adults to afford homes. I want hardworking families to have financial security. I want people who’ve spent decades contributing to society to actually enjoy their retirement.

And yes, at 53, I want some of that life for myself, too.

I love this country. But I refuse to believe we were put on this beautiful earth just to work five days a week, squeeze our lives into a few weeks of PTO, pay bills, and hope we’re healthy enough to enjoy whatever time is left.

We get ONE life. When did actually living it become a luxury?

I’m tired of the excuses. I’m tired of the political theater. And I’m tired of pretending this is just how things have to be.

We don’t just need a change in leadership. We need a serious conversation about changing the damn process.

Because this cannot be the best we can do.

Fuck. This. Shit.

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Yeah…this guy is all of us.

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

Maybe it’s my eye for process improvement. Maybe it’s years of looking at inefficiencies, identifying root causes, and finding Lean solutions. But I cannot wrap my head around why we continue to accept the same broken cycle in government.

Another election. Another shift in political power. Another few years of partisan gridlock, competing agendas, and finger-pointing. Then, just in time for the next election, we start the entire process over again.

At what point do we stop changing leadership and start evaluating the process?

In business, when a process consistently fails to deliver the desired results, we don’t just replace the person managing it and expect a different outcome. We examine the system.

We identify bottlenecks. We eliminate waste. We evaluate incentives. We establish measurable objectives, assign accountability, and implement sustainable corrective actions.

We ask why the process isn’t working.

Yet when it comes to government, we seem perfectly comfortable repeating the same cycle and expecting different results.

And yes, I understand that government isn’t a business. Checks and balances, debate, and representation are essential. Efficiency should never come at the expense of democracy.

But accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement shouldn’t be foreign concepts in public service either.

I’m tired of watching political victories celebrated as though they’re operational accomplishments. Winning an election is not the same as delivering results.

Imagine if we evaluated our elected officials the way we evaluate organizational performance. Not simply by party affiliation or campaign promises, but by measurable progress, long-term outcomes, responsible resource management, and their ability to work across competing priorities.

In supply chain and operations, we understand that constantly changing leadership without addressing systemic constraints doesn’t solve the underlying problem.

It just gives the same problems a new owner.

So perhaps the bigger question isn’t whether Washington is red or blue.

Perhaps it’s why we continue to tolerate a system where the next election so often takes priority over the work that needs to happen between elections.

Stop changing the guard and expecting the process to improve on its own.

It’s time to examine the process itself.

Because continuous improvement shouldn’t stop at the doors of Congress.

#ContinuousImprovement #LeanThinking #ProcessImprovement #Leadership #GovernmentAccountability #OperationalExcellence #RootCauseAnalysis #SystemsThinking #ChangeManagement #Accountability

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

Maybe it’s my eye for process improvement. Maybe it’s years of looking at inefficiencies, identifying root causes, and finding Lean solutions. But I cannot wrap my head around why we continue to accept the same broken cycle in government.

Another election. Another shift in political power. Another few years of partisan gridlock, competing agendas, and finger-pointing. Then, just in time for the next election, we start the entire process over again.

At what point do we stop changing leadership and start evaluating the process?

In business, when a process consistently fails to deliver the desired results, we don’t just replace the person managing it and expect a different outcome. We examine the system.

We identify bottlenecks. We eliminate waste. We evaluate incentives. We establish measurable objectives, assign accountability, and implement sustainable corrective actions.

We ask why the process isn’t working.

Yet when it comes to government, we seem perfectly comfortable repeating the same cycle and expecting different results.

And yes, I understand that government isn’t a business. Checks and balances, debate, and representation are essential. Efficiency should never come at the expense of democracy.

But accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement shouldn’t be foreign concepts in public service either.

I’m tired of watching political victories celebrated as though they’re operational accomplishments. Winning an election is not the same as delivering results.

Imagine if we evaluated our elected officials the way we evaluate organizational performance. Not simply by party affiliation or campaign promises, but by measurable progress, long-term outcomes, responsible resource management, and their ability to work across competing priorities.

In supply chain and operations, we understand that constantly changing leadership without addressing systemic constraints doesn’t solve the underlying problem.

It just gives the same problems a new owner.

So perhaps the bigger question isn’t whether Washington is red or blue.

Perhaps it’s why we continue to tolerate a system where the next election so often takes priority over the work that needs to happen between elections.

Stop changing the guard and expecting the process to improve on its own.

It’s time to examine the process itself.

Because continuous improvement shouldn’t stop at the doors of Congress.

#ContinuousImprovement #LeanThinking #ProcessImprovement #Leadership #GovernmentAccountability #OperationalExcellence #RootCauseAnalysis #SystemsThinking #ChangeManagement #Accountability

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

Most authors have a website. I apparently needed a mildly haunted literary escape room.

Secret drawers. Hidden poetry. Fae light. Books with boundary issues.

Come snoop. Touch the furniture. Make questionable choices.

https://t.co/RYFPfufYIs

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

Some mothers and daughters bake together.
We wrote a horror novel.

**THE BOOK OF THISTLE**
By Rainee Steigerwald & Raydan Baldwin

Returns at midnight on Halloween.

We’ve grown in our craft, listened to candid feedback, and reimagined the nightmare into the book we always believed we could write.

A secluded spring.
Something beneath the skin.
A mother who refuses to leave.

Read the first two chapters on my author page—link in bio. Click the cover, turn the book, and see what waits inside.

The water’s warm.
We make no promises about the welcome.

https://t.co/DrR3OlzedX

#HorrorBooks #Bookstagram #HalloweenReads #BodyHorror #MotherDaughterAuthors

[Alice @AliceFromQueens]

Before AI kills us, can we at least have a few years with the sex bots who do laundry?

[mila 🍰 semi-recov? @lastgrlon_earth]

why does my stomach have the nerve to growl when the fat is literally right there for it to eat

[Trophy Husband 🏆 @TrophyHusband]

My wife will drink enough caffeine to kill a horse, binge a murder documentary, and then look me dead in the eye and say...

"I'm having a lot of anxiety today."

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

How much money would it take to end the world?

I wrote a novel to find out.

THE LEDGER: THE AGE OF NOISE

“The apocalypse didn’t start with a bomb. It started with a deposit.”

Looking for the right literary agent and publishing partner to bring this story into the world.

#CoverReveal #SeekingRepresentation #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #Thriller #SpeculativeFiction #BookTwitter #DebutAuthor

[Rainee Steigerwald (Author) @raineesteigs]

The world doesn’t end because someone presses the wrong button.

It ends because nobody shows up on Monday.

That’s the story I’m writing.

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