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Riley Lashea

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Website

http://www.rileylashea.com/

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Genre

Gay and Lesbian, Fantasy, Fiction

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Life, love, pain and coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

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June 2013

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Riley LaShea grew up in an Ohio town that looks like a dust speck on most maps. It was boring and awful, so she got the hell out of there. Now, she doesn't know where she wants to be, so over the past several years she has lived in Nashville, Orlando, Fort Worth, Allentown, Columbus, Kansas City, Raleigh, outside LA and inside Manhattan.

She won a lyric contest judged by the Indigo Girls in high school and a screenplay contest judged by Creative Screenwriting Magazine once. Her first published novel became a bestseller at one indie bookstore in Oakland that has since gone out of business.

Known to take great risks in the noble pursuit of creativity, sometimes she prefers to just sit around eating chocolate yogurt and doing KenKen in pajama pa ...more

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Hi! I was wondering if you were working on a new novel? I miss the beauty of your writing!

Riley Lashea Wow. Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.

I am currently working on a 21-part serial that will be a bit of a departure from my previous releases…moreWow. Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.

I am currently working on a 21-part serial that will be a bit of a departure from my previous releases. I write screenplays too, and this series goes more in that direction (more action/dialogue :) My intention is to release the first three at the beginning of August, and then one a week through the end of the year.

It's also my hope to have a new erotic romance out this fall.

Though I've been lax, I do try to announce upcoming releases on my blog: http://www.rileylashea.com/blog/. There is also a mailing list on the sidebar to sign up for news on my upcoming books, if that's of interest to you.

Thanks for asking, and for your reviews :) I really appreciate them.(less)

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Hello! I was wondering--how did you get into writing, and what advise do you have for those of us who are struggling to write? I am an author myself, but I seem to have major writer's block. What do you do to get through something like that? Thank you for your time. Have a great day! :D

Riley Lashea Hi, K.

Thanks for being my first question :)

To be quite honest, I’ve been doing it for so long, I can’t remember what got me into writing exactly. I re…moreHi, K.

Thanks for being my first question :)

To be quite honest, I’ve been doing it for so long, I can’t remember what got me into writing exactly. I remember writing short stories and poems and working on plays and a school magazine in elementary school, and I’ve been scratching into notebooks on my own for as long as I can remember.

As for writer’s block, I don’t suffer from it often, but I definitely suffer it when it happens. I think a lot of people don’t realize how cerebral writing really is, how much brain power it takes. I really think your brain can just get tapped out. I don’t know about you, but at the end of a long day of writing I often have a raging headache I’m convinced comes from thinking too hard for too long.

I get over writer’s block by doing the same things I do in an effort to prevent it from happening in the first place. I like puzzles, so I do crosswords or Sudoku or KenKen when I get a little burned out. Sometimes I play guitar or work in Photoshop. When I know I need to put in some long writing days (when I’m coming up on a release date or deadline), I generally stop every two to three hours and play ten minutes or so of a video game. Mrs. Pacman, Mario Kart and Legend of Zelda are my faves. I find things that force my mind to work differently are the most effective remedies for getting back in the zone.

I also avoid social networks like the plague when writing, because I’m easily bothered by depressing news and I never know what I might see. I guess that’s my only real advice. If it’s possible for you, get up and write before you do anything else. Try to avoid news and other people’s drama as much as possible. Get to your story first. Catch up with real life later.
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Average rating: 4.11 · 2,151 ratings · 285 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Behind the Green Curtain 4.12 avg rating — 1,458 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Club Storyville 4.25 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dr. Todson's Home for Incorrigible Women 3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Forest: Kingdoms Fall (Black Forest, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wish List (Meddling Friends: Kelsie, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Falls on the Piazza 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Proposals (Meddling Friends: Kelsie, #2) 4.39 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Innocents 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island Getaway (Meddling Friends: Kelsie, #3) 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Forest: Magicks Rise (Black Forest, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are worse things than a bridal shower. Famine, for instance. Colonoscopies. Stepping barefoot on spiders in the middle of the night.”
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“I’m fine where I am."
“I’m fine where you are too.”
― Riley Lashea, Behind the Green Curtain

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“It was disconcerting, terrifying, but there was euphoria to be found within the fear, like a free fall into a black hole. She couldn’t know what was at the bottom, but the path down felt like flying.”
― Riley Lashea, Behind the Green Curtain

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