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New Release: After Life Lessons – Book Two

November 14, 2020Laila 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

So, what the hell happened?

November 14, 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 →

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New Release: Polar Shift (a lesbian novellette)

November 14, 2017Laila 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 →

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The End of a Series: Saltwater Skin

November 14, 2016Laila 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

Wordcount-Binging and the Quest for Flow

November 14, 2015Laila 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

3 Reasons to Stop Worrying about Book Piracy

November 14, 2014Laila Blake Leave a Comment

First things first: I am in no way advocating illegal downloads. And yes, I would hope that anyone interested in my books would take the official route. I mean, seriously, it’s the price of a cup of coffee, and you… Continue Reading →

Essays on Writing, Opinion Pieces copyright, writing

It’s Not All About Plot!

November 14, 2014Laila Blake 2 Comments

Every second genre book, it seems, features these descriptions somewhere in its product description: they are fast-paced, action-packed, and plot-driven. Short, dramatic sentences underline the idea. Nobody is safe. It’s the end of the world as we know it. Death… Continue Reading →

Essays on Writing, Opinion Pieces characters, plot, writing

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

November 14, 2014Laila 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 →

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Learning to Write for an Audience

August 7, 2014Laila Blake Leave a Comment

When you go through a difficult time in your life, you start to shed pride in pieces, in flakes like dandruff from your hair. Everybody starts to crack at a different point: maybe you begin to leave the house with… Continue Reading →

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

Let’s talk about love. Insta-love.

June 7, 2014Laila Blake Leave a Comment

Almost all my characters suffer from what I understand is a fatal flaw in romance novels. Almost all my characters have a tragic slant towards insta-love. Now, I don’t actually write romance, as far as I would define it, although… Continue Reading →

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