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Layla Cummins

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Born

in Bristol, The United Kingdom

Website

http://laylacummins.com/

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Genre

Horror, Science Fiction, Contemporary

Influences

Stephen King, Augusten Burroughs, Tina Fey, Gillian Flynn, Chuck Palah ...more

Member Since

October 2013

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Layla Cummins's Blog

The Great Beta Reader Turns Enforcer

IT’S BEEN TOO LONG.

After a long spell of essay-writing and reading-for-study (which is still ongoing, until early June at least), there has been very little writing for fun.

Fortunately, I have a very hands-on assistant who we all know as the Great Beta Reader, i.e. I’ve mentioned her before. She’s a real person, not a voice, although in some circles she’s known as The Mouth.

Over a cup of tea an

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Layla Cummins’s books

Average rating: 4.15 · 327 ratings · 42 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 1, October 2014 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author), Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	100 Doors to Madness by David Nell (Editor), Marge Simon (Goodreads Author), Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 86 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
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 2, January 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeremy Szal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Richard K. Morgan (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 92 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
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 3, April 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), R. Scott Bakker, Luke Scull (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Bugs: Tales that Slither, Creep, and Crawl by Gregory L. Norris (Editor), Simon Rumley (Foreword), Sydney Leigh (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 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 Prison Compendium by Jennifer Word (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kimberly King (Editor), Paul Stansfield (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Give: An Anthology of Anatomical Entries by Michelle Kilmer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.J. Tranchell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jonathan Lambert 4.56 avg rating — 9 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
	Sanitarium #31 by Barry Skelhorn (Goodreads Author), Brooke Warra (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kenneth C. Goldman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 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
	Phantaxis 4 by Carter J. Hughes (Editor), Andrew Kozma (Goodreads Author), Matencera Wolf (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Infernal Ink Magazine (vol. 5 issue 2 for April 2016): Devilishly Erotic Horror by Hydra M. Star (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Lipscomb (Illustrator), Robert Johnson (Interview Subject) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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

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Vox

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Middlemarch

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Layla’s Quotes

“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers

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“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”
― Marc Acito, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

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“Wait, it gets duller.”
― Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate

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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire