Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖

@laphilbin.com

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Science Fiction Romance author. Also, a technical writer extraordinaire writing as Ella Drake: https://laphilbin.com/

Two cucumbers a foot-long or more with a cluster of green tomatoes in the foreground. The picture was taken beneath the canopy of tomato and cucumber vines. Everything is in shade.
Base of a grass cluster. The stalks are reddish purple and thin in comparison to West Indian lemongrass, used in Asian cooking which is green at the base and thicker.
Slices of cucumber in a small container. The slices are nearly seed-free.
Two long, thin cucumbers. One is about a foot long, the other around 10 inches.
Linen Blend Tiered Dress blue with white oun stripes. Model is 5'8" wearing size S.
A small number of dried apricots, fresh pecans, and a square & half of dark, low-sugar chocolate piled up in a white bowl.
Around 8-10 small eggplants with a quarter for scale to show largest is nearly 3 inches long. The top of the plant has pale purple flowers.
Screen cap of weather app showing 100° and Sunny. Feels like is 103°. Extreme heat warning until Saturday at 8pm. The app developers have, for some reason, decided that an illustration of a white dude wearing long pants, long sleeve shirt, with headphones and looking at his phone is a good UX decision when it's sweltering out.
Dish with small mozzarella balls and sliced cucumber & tomatoes with basil leaves.
Collage of garden, clockwise from top left, marigolds, cucumber, blooming dill, Thai basil, bok choy, cluster of green tomatoes, sweet basil, parsley, blooming lavender, several small eggplants, and another cluster of tomatoes
Young groundhog on patio next to a pot with lemongrass. The groundhog is surrounded by mullberries it has been eating like nature's vacuum.
A juvenile deer in overgrown corner of yard
Directions on floor of subway. It's a purple arrow with icon of 6 the text says, "Stadium Trains." In smaller text, beneath; "FiFA. We are Boston"
Screen cap of a PDF navigation area with 5 thumbnails. The five pages show an outline in tables. The text is illegible.
Two 4x4 raised beds with basil, collards, okra, tomatoes, pepper, cucumber, dill, parsley, rosemary, thyme, sage, onion, marigolds
Large sage and lavender plants with pavers around them. They're outside a garden surrounded by a black iron fence. The garden is two raised beds. The left side is in distance & has some plants. The right is empty. A garden gnome peeks out between the sage and lavender. House is in background of the garden.
Stylized text reads Space Grit. L.A. Philbin writing as Ella Drake. New York Times & USA Today best selling author. Below text is a row of 8 covers. 5 covers are behind three prominent ones: Black Ice Heart, Willing Skin, and Killer Mate.
List of Space Grit books by L.A. Philbin and Ella Drake. Including Black Ice Heart, Freeker, Willing Skin, and Breaking the Admiral. All are available on Kobo Plus.
Screenshot of "kobo writing life" screen with one ebook in the dashboard. The ebook is "Black Ice Heart" by L.A. Philbin writing as Ella Drake. The cover has a couple in front of a space background.
Screen cap with notification banner that reads: Your books have been marked for delisting. Beneath, the "Delist all books" button is non-active.
Crowded beach with many families and swimmers. Many sunbathe on sandy beach. Life guards sit in tall chairs under large umbrellas. Trees are in the background.
Large exclamation, "Success" with green checkmark. Beneath, a message states, "Your claim form has been submitted successfully."
McCormick lemon blend with Bridgerton label
Pic of an eink tablet with drawing app icons to the left and a pencil drawing of a horned dragon head on screen.
Supernote Nomad propped on the box it came in.
A lapel or badge pin with RWA *PRO spelled out in engraved font.
Pork loin in vaccum sealed plastic bag. A bunch of herbs, rosemary, sage,ans thyme, are on top.
Small bee with metallic green head and black and yellow striped abdomen.
A white eggplant that appears a heck of a lot like an egg.
Two sprigs of rosemary in a tall, narrow glass.
Close up of a bunch of dried lavender buds. Some are more open than others, showing more purple. Others are closed, green, and cylindrical.
Shards of Honor with illustration of a woman and man in background, a spaceship in foreground with other ships chasing it
Shades of Honor from the Vorkosian Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, which is a space-set scifi. Cover has two puppets on a white background. The puppets are made of solid blocks. One is red. The other, blue. The red puppet is holding scissors
Banana pudding. Vanilla pudding with banana slices and vanilla wafers. Topped with whipped cream
Flowering lavender bush spilling over raised bed garden. Radish greens and basil in background.
Two boxes of Royal vanilla pudding boxes. One is angled to show expiration date July 20, 2012.
Jane Austen LEGO tribute set. Minifig with bookshelves. Free with $150 purchase
Cucumber, bok choy, lavender, radishes
Parking sign with duct tape over "Par", now the sign reads: Tow Zone. No king anytime <-->
Collage of garden pictures with radishes, lavender, onions with blooms, and Thai basil.
Screen capture of Samsung UI on phone
Two raised garden beds, just planted. Small plants and seedlings.
Two cucumber sprouts in a peat pellet
Rosemary, thyme, sweet basil & culinary sage plants. Seed starter tray. Garlic bulbs. And a stack of seeds: cucumber, dill, okra on top.
Kobo screen with shelves. Percentage read for recent books and collections for My Books and the Psy-changeling series. Also links to Overdrive borrows and holds.
Screen cap of Google Maps misnaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
Turkish balloon bread, hummus, salad (lettuce, tomato, olives feta), water, hot tea.
Selfie. I'm wearing large lens glasses with clear frames.
Small journal with illustration of Statue of Liberty and NYC in background. Title is RWA Bright Lights Big Stories. A pink USB drive shaped like lipstick tube is beside it.
Two sets of CD/DVD software. Adobe creative suite 4 and Microsoft Office 2003
Small journal with page open to a character sketch listing occupation and personality traits. A 2" × 3" color printed photo of a couple is stuck to the page. The portable printer is placed on top of journal. Under the journal is a partially exposed printout of a ship.
Cross stitch of a Precious Moments boy wearing armor, holding shield and sword. Bandages on cheek and nose. A half eaten apple at his feet. With text "Onward Christian Soldiers."
Merriam-Webster posted, "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025." Screen caught "somnolent"
A mug of tea with stainer and lid. Behind it, two containers (approximately 4x6in) full of dried camomile flowers.
Shelf at Lovestruck Books in Harvard Square with spine of When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein
Pic of Lovestruck Books
A ballpoint pen set from INNObeta. Each pen has a phrase. 1. Be careful, or you'll end up in my novel. 2. Write. Revise. Scream a little. Repeat. 3. I make stuff up. 4. Go away. I'm writing.
Barred owl sitting in tree
A collage that shows a cover with large "Romantasy" stylish font. Two internal coloring pages. One says enemies to lovers. Another a historical romance couple.