Month: December 2012

  • I’m officially on Holiday Hours #wabwm

    Getting the whole month of December off didn’t quite work out. But I am taking off the rest of the month. I don’t remember ever having been this tired before, but I now have a chance to rest. Mostly. Sort of. UNTIL MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, I’ll do Student Support on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It’s…

  • WARPAINT is now LIVE

    Coupon, gift link, details, book links and general info are on my Cadence Drake site. http://cadencedrake.hollylisle.com/2012/12/warpaint-is-live/ Download as PDFPrint Page

  • You can probably hear the screams from there… #wabwm

    Revised the cover art last night. Revised the cover copy last night. Did more cleanup on the books last night. Finally got all the versions of the book acceptably formatted (I think) around midnight. And uploaded after that. Back up early this morning, getting the MINECRAFTTM spaceship/spacestation maps ready for uploading. (Important note here: If…

  • The Wednesday People #wabwm

    So it turns out I’m not, much to my utter frustration, done with the print version of WARPAINT yet. One of my only-slightly-less-rushed Wednesday people (folks who missed the print deadline, but got corrections in in time to help me with the ebook versions) found a mistake so egregious I’m going to have to re-submit…

  • Had to re-do the WARPAINT Print version

    First thing this morning, found the notice from CreateSpace in my mailbox letting me know the book was good to go…”but images less than 200 dpi may appear blurry in print.” Didn’t have any images, but I DID have the text itself. So rather than run the chance of the book being blurry, I’ve spent…

  • It took this long, but the print version of WARPAINT is now published.

    10:20 PM. The print version of WARPAINT is done. It’s in CreateSpace waiting on a file review. Tomorrow I’ll go through all the bug-hunt files that came in after Monday through midnight today, and do the ebook versions. Those will almost certainly take a couple days. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • The first review is already up for WARPAINT

    At least, this is the first one I know about… http://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/warpaint-by-holly-lisle/ Download as PDFPrint Page

  • A shock from my past

    Received an email that led me to a complete copy of my 1979 High-School yearbook, of which I was the editor and the artist. I was not World’s Greatest Yearbook Editor. I had no clue what my most critical job was (it was apparently to flog advertising to pay for the book, something no one…

  • Okay. The print version bug-hunt on WARPAINT is done

    Dragging my dizzy self (awful vertigo today) into the office to do the page PDF version for CreateSpace, and then do the finishing touches on the cover art. 😀 Mammoth, massive, huge, enormous thanks to the people who spent a big chunk of their weekend and Monday bug-hunting the book for me. You were awesome.…

  • And a few quicky notes on things readers frequently mistake for mistakes

    While compound adjectives for example, “three-day sale” are frequently hyphenated, adjective phrases that use -ly words are not. Incorrect: carefully-worded letter Correct: carefully worded letter It is correct to use serial semicolons to list items presented as long phrases in narrative, whether items are listed in a single paragraph, or are broken into multiple paragraphs…