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Lila (she/her) i write about powerful people falling in love | THE NIGHT AUCTION ARCs AVAILABLE NOW | GET MY BOOKS HERE

Reintro!

I've been on writeblr four years, I figured it's time for a reintro! a lot of the folks who were here when I first came to this wonderful community aren't here anymore, and it's time to meet some new lovely people!

I'm Lila, she/her, and I am a queer fantasy romance author! I'm an indie author with three books currently out! they are:

All of those are available here! This is my author website, and my author instagram!

I have a general taglist that i use semi-often, so please let me know if you'd like to be added to that! you can find more details about my finished/unfinished works here!

I'm also a frequent fanfic writer, so dm me if you want my ao3 or my fandom blog.

I am always looking for new writeblrs to follow and wips to track! please especially reblog if you're a writer who fits any of these:

  • is an indie author (ALWAYS looking to support more indie authors)
  • writes mostly fantasy
  • writes queer romance
  • is active and posts about their wips often

but of course, all writers are welcome, even if you don't fit those points! boosts are encouraged!

Happy April Fool's Day! More Runaways Memes be upon ye! it's ok Hannah, I don't really understand memes either.

Taglist, sorry for two tags in one day but you're the only people who are going to appreciate the shitposts about the blorbos who currently only exist in my head and manuscripts on my hard drive. Ask to be added or removed!

Happy April Fools Day! Here's some Incorrect Quotes from Runaways!

I don't know if these are still a meme in fandom spaces but I remember loving them on pinterest so I made some for my WIP! These are just silly little exercises in character interactions but I had a lot of fun making them. Some of them might make more sense after I've introduced the side characters (or after you've read the book) but hopefully this gives you some insight into their personalities in a more informal way lol.

Hannah: Just be yourself. Cecelia: 'Be myself'? Hannah, I have one day to win the Taken over. How long did it take before you guys started liking me? Brigid: Couple weeks. Twins: Six months. Quercu: Jury’s still out. Cecelia: See, Hannah? Cecelia: 'Be myself'. What kind of garbage advice is that?
Brigid: Where's Hannah, Cecelia, and Quercu? Matteo: They're playing hide and seek. Brigid: Where? Marco: I don't think you get how this game works.
Hannah: We need more help. Maybe I should call my friends. Cecelia: ... Your what? Hannah: My friends. The Taken: What are “friends”? Cecelia: I think she's being sarcastic. Hannah: I have other friends! You told me I needed to make new friends, I made new friends! It was a task. I complete tasks. Hannah: I’ve done a lot of dumb stuff. Cecelia: I witnessed the dumb stuff. The Taken: I got dragged into the dumb stuff. Marco: I joined in on the dumb stuff. Matteo: I recorded the dumb stuff Brigid: I TRIED TO STOP YOU FROM DOING THE DUMB STUFF!!! Hannah: Good responses for being stabbed with a knife? The Taken: Rude. Cecelia: That’s fair. Quercu: Not again. Marco: Are you going to want this back? Hannah, trying to convince The Taken to join the group: You know... I thought it'd be good to have someone come along who's really... strong! Cecelia: And stabby! Hannah: And grumpy! Cecelia: And oblivious to reality! The Taken: ... Brigid: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the items you have lost throughout your life Cecelia: Self-esteem, haven't seen you in years! The Taken: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this! Hannah: I knew I lost that potential somewhere! Quercu: My moral code, is that you? Brigid: ... Brigid: I was just gonna show you this cool trunk the monarchs gave me but do you guys need a hug? Cecelia: Are we really going to let Hannah keep The Taken? Matteo: I kept Marco Hannah: *Screams* Cecelia: *Screams louder to assert dominance* Quercu: Should we do something?! Brigid, observing: No, I want to see who wins this. Cecelia: Name a more iconic duo than my crippling fear of abandonment and my anxiety. I'll wait. Hannah: You and me!!! Cecelia, tearing up: Okay... Cecelia: You love me, right, Hannah? Hannah: Normally, I’d say yes without hesitation, but I feel like this is going somewhere and I don’t like it.

Runaway is my YA faerie adventure novel about Hannah trying to rescue her younger sister from the Pied Piper! You can read more about the characters and world here!

Taglist (ask to be added/removed):

Hi everyone it's trans day of visibility!! If ya feel like it, I'd love if you shared my work.. My name is Rachamim and I make personal queer fantasy work inspired by my Greek Sephardi background.

It's what always kept me going through my hardest periods of illness and instability and I feel very lucky to still be here sharing with y'all. If ya want links of where/how else you can support my work they're all here!! Thank you!

Writeblr Re-Introduction + WIP links

General About Me: 

WIP Introduction powerpoint - for all my other upcoming projects

Other stuff about me:

  • I have a day job as a chemical engineer working on sustainability projects. Please tag me in sciencey stuff or ask if you have Research Questions for your books.
  • I also have a million hobbies which include but are not limited to: physical and digital illustration, textile art, music composition, gardening, and martial arts
  • I’m Catholic and religion is important to my work. I’m happy to talk about my beliefs if you’re curious, but I’m not trying to be obnoxiously preachy.
  • I’ve got four younger siblings, and family is a big theme in my work. My favorite genres are science fiction and fantasy, but I’ll read pretty much anything.
  • This blog is a chill no-politics or current-events zone because I’m involved in that stuff offline and this blog is for my hobbies and other shenanigans. I prefer to let people infer their own meanings and let my writing speak for itself instead of pushing heavy and guilt-trip posts on your dash.
  • I think that’s it! Welcome! 

I'm doing a collab with @writeblrfantasy this month! Sign up for my mailing list here if you want to read our articles. I wrote about Meta's AI scraping, piracy, how this recent leak hurts both the academic and publishing worlds, and how to help authors impacted by the theft. Lila is a several times published romantasy author and she shared a love letter to fantasy, in all its forms and subgenres.

I publish newsletters once a month so I don't spam your inbox! It's also a great way to get news and behind the scenes lore about my upcoming YA fantasy book, Runaways.

We're also doing a collab on Lila's substack newsletter next month so be sure to sign up for that if you want to hear our thoughts on building a writing platform and the many hats writers are expected to wear.

etta's piece on AI scraping was such a brilliant read. it shares an author's honest frustrations on this terrible issue (which I found quite refreshing to read) but also offers some solutions and reassurances to struggling and discouraged authors. we need more pieces like this that feel relatable and actually say, "yes, this problem sucks and there is no sugarcoating that," instead of trying to be polite about it, in my opinion.

etta is a brilliant author and a good friend of mine, and her newsletters offer some of the most insightful pieces on topics all over the indie sphere. i highly recommend checking out this article we wrote, as well as the one coming out on my substack next friday about how authors these days have to wear many many hats!

today, if you sign up for etta's newsletter, you'll get her piece about ai and my piece about fantasy for a little escapist moment.

do you like messy, sexy queer books?💕

do you like queer books that aren't all fluff and rainbows? that explore those messy, dark topics, yet still keeps humor and joy and love + a happy ending?💕

do you like all of the above in fantasy?💕

let me introduce to you THE NIGHT AUCTION...for which Advanced Reader Copies are now open!

From now until June 15th, you can email me at lilamarybooks@gmail.com, and i will give you the file to read THE NIGHT AUCTION for free, in exchange for leaving a review.

(trigger warnings for past abusive relationships and references to sexual coercion, as well as an inherent power imbalance in a society of extreme bigotry and oppression.)

(preferably on goodreads) this will massively help the book gain traction by release day, when people see that it already has shiny new reviews! blurb below.

For a gemeyes, love is a prison. What happens when it could mean freedom? Aric is a gemeyes, a powerful and heavily regulated mage in the second class of Vadare society. His whole life, his only goal has been survival—not dreams, and certainly not love. When an old debt comes knocking, Aric is forced to turn to The Night Auction, a club where gemeyes go to be auctioned off for dates. There, he is bought by Kyrell Tierwood, a first class lord who’s kinder and handsomer than any Aric has ever met. Kyrell’s main draw is his wealth, which Aric needs to pay his debt and protect the family secret. Aric’s plan is simple: seduce the money he needs out of Kyrell and then leave him. It’s not love, it’s business. However, Aric didn’t count on his seduction turning into something real. As Aric and Kyrell navigate coexistence, Aric is torn between two worlds: the love he’s fostering with Kyrell, and the secret he will do anything to keep.

(boosts much appreciated!)

I'm doing a collab with @writeblrfantasy this month! Sign up for my mailing list here if you want to read our articles. I wrote about Meta's AI scraping, piracy, how this recent leak hurts both the academic and publishing worlds, and how to help authors impacted by the theft. Lila is a several times published romantasy author and she shared a love letter to fantasy, in all its forms and subgenres.

I publish newsletters once a month so I don't spam your inbox! It's also a great way to get news and behind the scenes lore about my upcoming YA fantasy book, Runaways.

We're also doing a collab on Lila's substack newsletter next month so be sure to sign up for that if you want to hear our thoughts on building a writing platform and the many hats writers are expected to wear.

etta's piece on AI scraping was such a brilliant read. it shares an author's honest frustrations on this terrible issue (which I found quite refreshing to read) but also offers some solutions and reassurances to struggling and discouraged authors. we need more pieces like this that feel relatable and actually say, "yes, this problem sucks and there is no sugarcoating that," instead of trying to be polite about it, in my opinion.

etta is a brilliant author and a good friend of mine, and her newsletters offer some of the most insightful pieces on topics all over the indie sphere. i highly recommend checking out this article we wrote, as well as the one coming out on my substack next friday about how authors these days have to wear many many hats!

today, if you sign up for etta's newsletter, you'll get her piece about ai and my piece about fantasy for a little escapist moment.

do you like messy, sexy queer books?💕

do you like queer books that aren't all fluff and rainbows? that explore those messy, dark topics, yet still keeps humor and joy and love + a happy ending?💕

do you like all of the above in fantasy?💕

let me introduce to you THE NIGHT AUCTION...for which Advanced Reader Copies are now open!

From now until June 15th, you can email me at lilamarybooks@gmail.com, and i will give you the file to read THE NIGHT AUCTION for free, in exchange for leaving a review.

(preferably on goodreads) this will massively help the book gain traction by release day, when people see that it already has shiny new reviews! blurb below.

For a gemeyes, love is a prison. What happens when it could mean freedom? Aric is a gemeyes, a powerful and heavily regulated mage in the second class of Vadare society. His whole life, his only goal has been survival—not dreams, and certainly not love. When an old debt comes knocking, Aric is forced to turn to The Night Auction, a club where gemeyes go to be auctioned off for dates. There, he is bought by Kyrell Tierwood, a first class lord who’s kinder and handsomer than any Aric has ever met. Kyrell’s main draw is his wealth, which Aric needs to pay his debt and protect the family secret. Aric’s plan is simple: seduce the money he needs out of Kyrell and then leave him. It’s not love, it’s business. However, Aric didn’t count on his seduction turning into something real. As Aric and Kyrell navigate coexistence, Aric is torn between two worlds: the love he’s fostering with Kyrell, and the secret he will do anything to keep.

(boosts much appreciated!)

do you like messy, sexy queer books?💕

do you like queer books that aren't all fluff and rainbows? that explore those messy, dark topics, yet still keeps humor and joy and love + a happy ending?💕

do you like all of the above in fantasy?💕

let me introduce to you THE NIGHT AUCTION...for which Advanced Reader Copies are now open!

From now until June 15th, you can email me at lilamarybooks@gmail.com, and i will give you the file to read THE NIGHT AUCTION for free, in exchange for leaving a review.

(preferably on goodreads) this will massively help the book gain traction by release day, when people see that it already has shiny new reviews! blurb below.

For a gemeyes, love is a prison. What happens when it could mean freedom? Aric is a gemeyes, a powerful and heavily regulated mage in the second class of Vadare society. His whole life, his only goal has been survival—not dreams, and certainly not love. When an old debt comes knocking, Aric is forced to turn to The Night Auction, a club where gemeyes go to be auctioned off for dates. There, he is bought by Kyrell Tierwood, a first class lord who’s kinder and handsomer than any Aric has ever met. Kyrell’s main draw is his wealth, which Aric needs to pay his debt and protect the family secret. Aric’s plan is simple: seduce the money he needs out of Kyrell and then leave him. It’s not love, it’s business. However, Aric didn’t count on his seduction turning into something real. As Aric and Kyrell navigate coexistence, Aric is torn between two worlds: the love he’s fostering with Kyrell, and the secret he will do anything to keep.

(boosts much appreciated!)

Reintro!

I've been on writeblr four years, I figured it's time for a reintro! a lot of the folks who were here when I first came to this wonderful community aren't here anymore, and it's time to meet some new lovely people!

I'm Lila, she/her, and I am a queer fantasy romance author! I'm an indie author with three books currently out! they are:

All of those are available here! This is my author website, and my author instagram!

I have a general taglist that i use semi-often, so please let me know if you'd like to be added to that! you can find more details about my finished/unfinished works here!

I'm also a frequent fanfic writer, so dm me if you want my ao3 or my fandom blog.

I am always looking for new writeblrs to follow and wips to track! please especially reblog if you're a writer who fits any of these:

  • is an indie author (ALWAYS looking to support more indie authors)
  • writes mostly fantasy
  • writes queer romance
  • is active and posts about their wips often

but of course, all writers are welcome, even if you don't fit those points! boosts are encouraged!

do you like messy, sexy queer books?💕

do you like queer books that aren't all fluff and rainbows? that explore those messy, dark topics, yet still keeps humor and joy and love + a happy ending?💕

do you like all of the above in fantasy?💕

let me introduce to you THE NIGHT AUCTION...for which Advanced Reader Copies are now open!

From now until June 15th, you can email me at lilamarybooks@gmail.com, and i will give you the file to read THE NIGHT AUCTION for free, in exchange for leaving a review.

(preferably on goodreads) this will massively help the book gain traction by release day, when people see that it already has shiny new reviews! blurb below.

For a gemeyes, love is a prison. What happens when it could mean freedom? Aric is a gemeyes, a powerful and heavily regulated mage in the second class of Vadare society. His whole life, his only goal has been survival—not dreams, and certainly not love. When an old debt comes knocking, Aric is forced to turn to The Night Auction, a club where gemeyes go to be auctioned off for dates. There, he is bought by Kyrell Tierwood, a first class lord who’s kinder and handsomer than any Aric has ever met. Kyrell’s main draw is his wealth, which Aric needs to pay his debt and protect the family secret. Aric’s plan is simple: seduce the money he needs out of Kyrell and then leave him. It’s not love, it’s business. However, Aric didn’t count on his seduction turning into something real. As Aric and Kyrell navigate coexistence, Aric is torn between two worlds: the love he’s fostering with Kyrell, and the secret he will do anything to keep.

(boosts much appreciated!)

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