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So, what the hell happened?

March 16, 2018Laila Blake 3 Comments

I have this vision of myself, sashaying back into this space as if no time had passed and nothing ever happened. As if I hadn’t ignored this blog, my writer friends, my readers and my craft. But I don’t think… Continue Reading →

#Miscellaneous lakeside series, mental health, personal, writing

Another hard blow for culture: Books are written to be read

June 23, 2015Laila Blake Leave a Comment

Amazon is changing its royalty policy for borrowed books from a per-book system to a per-page-read system. It’s a move that is widely supported by KPD Select authors (you know, the people it affects), but – like any decision Amazon has ever… Continue Reading →

Opinion Pieces amazon, general fiction, lit fic, media, reading

New Release: Polar Shift (a lesbian novellette)

May 31, 2015Laila Blake 2 Comments

After a series of collaborative anthologies (like Anything She Wants, Sweat, A Christmas to Remember, Cougars, Bossy, Forbidden Fruit and Opposites Attract), my latest work for the wonderful ladies at Ladylit Publishing is all my own. A 15.000 word/ 50… Continue Reading →

New Releases bdsm, erotica, ladylit, lesbian, lgbt, romance, short stories, short story, women, writing

Triggers and Tough Truths

May 21, 2015Laila Blake Leave a Comment

  We talk about triggers a lot, us the women and the queer folk and the people of color, us who would like the world to be a little bit better, a little bit more equal (not just a bit… Continue Reading →

#Miscellaneous, Opinion Pieces feminism, mental health, personal, society, women

New Release: After Life Lessons – Book Two

April 29, 2015Laila Blake Leave a Comment

What does it mean to live, to hope, to love in a dying world? That’s what the characters in our latest release – After Life Lessons: Book Two – are trying to find out once more. After Life Lessons takes… Continue Reading →

New Releases after life lessons, general fiction, l.c. spoering, lilt literary, post-apoc, writing

New Release: In Your Atmosphere – 6 #erotic stories

February 13, 2015Laila Blake Leave a Comment

Just in time for valentine’s day, we’re bringing you a new collection of stories of L.C. Spoering and myself. Now, for my part, I don’t have a date tonight and where I live, more people indulge in Cologne’s Stree Carneval… Continue Reading →

New Releases erotica, l.c. spoering, lilt literary, romance, short stories

Be the Best Writer’s Block Buster – 6 Foolproof Strategies to Keep Writing

February 4, 2015Laila Blake Leave a Comment

Visions of drill-sergeants march through my head and I laugh at them. What do they know about writing? Well, okay, sometimes you just have to push. There is a place for brute force in writing, but why go there when… Continue Reading →

Essays on Writing writer's block, writing, writing process

The End of a Series: Saltwater Skin

January 3, 2015Laila Blake Leave a Comment

Bringing a novel onto paper and into distribution is a thing of satisfying (and terrifying!) beauty. But doing the same to a whole series, of concluding something that has been with you for so long, beats it by a mile… Continue Reading →

New Releases breaking in waves, erotica, lilt literary, personal, romance, writing

Gift Inspiration Driftwood Deeds

December 10, 2014Laila Blake Leave a Comment

If you’re anything like me, two weeks before Christmas you’re probably not exactly done with your Christmas gifts. For me, that is because my family is made up of die-hard pragmatists when it comes to material things, who almost impossible… Continue Reading →

#Miscellaneous breaking in waves, erotica

Wordcount-Binging and the Quest for Flow

December 8, 2014Laila Blake Leave a Comment

It is a truth almost universally acknowledged in writer circles anymore – see what I did there? – that bringing as many words as possible onto the page in each sitting is the key to writerly success. Espoused everywhere you… Continue Reading →

Essays on Writing, Opinion Pieces writing, writing process

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