Month: April 2017

  • Upcoming Price Increase: How to Write a Series

    I’ve written and published the new Version 2 lessons through Week 8 as of today. So today I WOULD be raising the price of the class to $267 or $55/month for 5 months until Lesson 12 is published. BUT I want to give myself a week to write the first draft of Longview 4: The…

  • What writing question haven’t I answered yet?

    What writing question haven’t I answered yet?

    Here’s what I’ve already covered or am covering now. Building deeper characters Plotting Writing scenes Worldbuilding Building cultures Building languages Building a writing career Novel revision Writing short stories Self-motivation Buiding self-discipline Beating writer’s block Indie book promotion and I’m building How to Write a Series now…   None of these classes came from me…

  • Racism at Ubisoft? – Far Cry Primal

    I play video games in my free time, and decided to try Far Cry Primal. You start out as a young black male — bit of a shift for me, because I prefer to play as a female when the option is offered. In Far Cry Primal, it isn’t. I mention the race of the…

  • Born from Fire — Now Amazon #1 times Two!

    Born from Fire — Now Amazon #1 times Two!

    I’m totally failing to be modest, but I’m happy, and this is so COOL! Came in this morning expecting to see a drop, and instead, now Longview 1: Born from Fire is #1 in TWO categories! SF/Fantasy Free Short Literature & Fiction Free Short Little Kid –> Christmas Morning –> ME! Use the link above…

  • You DID IT!!! Born from Fire is FREE! And #1 on Amazon!

    You DID IT!!! Born from Fire is FREE! And #1 on Amazon!

    I’m so excited! Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to let Amazon know the book was free everywhere else. Take a look at the screen shots I just took — Number #1 in FREE Science Fiction #2 In FREE 90-Minute Literature & Fiction Short Reads Thank you again to everyone who…

  • Help Make “Born from Fire” a FREE book

    Help Make “Born from Fire” a FREE book

    I’ve given Amazon over a month to correct the price on Born from Fire.I’ve let them know, and folks on my SITE have let them know the book is FREE on: Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/born-from-fire Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1197455535 B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/born-from-fire-holly-lisle/1125516270 Inktera: http://www.inktera.com/store/title/e9bef6da-15cd-404c-9d03-fa8a7bb78fab   Apparently the only thing that is going to make the book FREE permanently on Amazon…

  • My How To Write A Series Course is LIVE!

    Today you’re going to get a demo of what the SPLINTERS version of your How to Write a Series lessons will look like. Why? Because I spent yesterday from around 11AM until 2:24AM this morning writing the registration page copy and then building the registration page, which goes into more detail on what’ll be in…

  • Look at the difference your ‘write series fiction’ questions made!

    Last week, I asked folks to throw their toughest questions about writing series fiction at me. And I posted my tentative class plan for bringing out How to Write a Series, Version 2, to show you what I was already planning on answering. The response I got was tremendous. Fantastic, intelligent, well-thought-out, and in some…

  • Are you ready to write series fiction?

    People have been waiting for my expansion of my How to Write A Series class to come back. Until now, it wasn’t back because in its previous version, I went way down the rabbit hole of too much information, and I had to figure out what to keep and what to dump. I also had…