Month: January 2012

  • TALYN Rights Reversion Party 10 AM–3 PM Friday (Eastern Time)

    I’m throwing a party in honor of my agent, Robin Rue, her assistant, Beth Miller, and the very fine folks at WRITERS HOUSE, my agency. The party will be this Friday between 10 AM and 3 PM (my Friday work hours), and will be here, so everyone can attend, and also simultaneously on Twitter. You…

  • Global Warming? You’ll wish…

    I’ve been saying all along that the global warming scare is just that: an attempt to divert massive amounts of money and power into the hands of a bunch of fearmongers who prey on the gullibility of people who don’t want to learn science. Here’s the latest. Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we…

  • Cadence Drake and the Darkness

    I’d originally set Cadence Drake: Warpaint (my current work in progress) three years after the events in Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood. I did this because I wanted to get back to Cady’s story after she’d beaten the darkness from the first book, after she had found her way back to being a whole human being…

  • How to say “I was wrong.”

    You start by saying, “I was wrong.” So I’ll start there. Last week, I looked at the EULA for a piece of software called iBook Author, and based on reading the EULA and on reading the interpretations of the EULA by folks better at this than I am, and based on the understanding that iBook…

  • The Apple iBooks Author Issue: Small things, and large principles

    The short version: I have removed my books from sale on iBookstore because Apple has included a clause in software I don’t use and wouldn’t have used anyway a clause claiming the right to refuse publication on its platform of works created with this software (which is fine and I applaud their right) and further…

  • Income Tax Stuff

    I’m getting all the tax materials ready for my accountant, and adding up columns of affiliate payments to see which of my affiliates end up with 1099s this year. I’ll be back when all the yuck is over. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • I’m joining the PIPA/SOPA Strike Tomorrow

    All three of my sites: https://hollylisle.com, http://howtothinksideways.com, and http://writingcoursesnow.com will be blacked out tomorrow during the strike. I am a writer, and my work is currently being pirated on a number of sites. I have done everything I can to have the pirated works taken down, so please understand that I am NOT a fan…

  • Interview with Stephanie Osborn, author of The Case Of The Displaced Detective (science fiction)

    In a single sentence of thirty words or less, describe your main story, hero, conflict, and why my readers will love your book. Physicist Dr. Skye Chadwick discovers an alternate reality wherein Sherlock Holmes is destined to die at Reichenbach and rescues him, but can Holmes thrive – even survive – in our modern world?…

  • HTTS Students: Writers’ Self-Promotion Lesson now LIVE

    Lesson 13A is now live on your student page (if you are already to Lesson 13 or higher). Look for it in the lesson links at the top of your student page, right next to 13.  It will be either 13A or Thirteen-A, depending on the class you’re taking. This is an enormous lesson which…

  • What would you do with a four-day work week?

    I read this article on Inc. recommending switching businesses over to four-day work weeks. Obviously this is not something that would work for restaurants, retail outlets, hospitals, or anywhere in the service industry (if the word “emergency” can be legitimately used in any portion of your business, in other words). For businesses that invent, improve,…