About the Author

I’ve been writing with intent to publish since January 1st, 1985 when my New Year’s resolution was to write a novel before I turned twenty-five (ten months later, more or less).

I hit my resolution with a few days to spare, but the book, Hearts In Stitches, sucked.  I wrote a LOT after that, accumulating a big shoebox with well over a hundred rejection slips in it before anybody decided I was good enough to pay for fiction.

I actually started selling in 1991, and I broke in with with the fantasy novel Fire In The Mist (which won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel), and with a couple of sonnets I sold to the SF magazine Aboriginal.

It was a long hard slog between intent and realization.

It’s been a rollercoaster ever since.

But I love telling stories.  In fiction, I’ve found the work I want to do for the rest of my life.

You’ll find a little more about me by reading the rest of the About pages.  Frankly, though, there’s much more of who I really am spread across the writing articles and sprinkled through the heart of my fiction, and sprawled all over the damn place in my weblog, Pocket Full of Words.

I am not my work.  But my work is me.

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Holly Lisle

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4 responses to “About the Author”

  1. ava Avatar
    ava

    hello ma’am! i’m an ardent fan of your moon and sun series and have been following your updates for quite some time.
    i was wondering about the emerald sun and its release because i’m really excited to read it! could you please tell us something about it?

    1. Holly Avatar
      Holly

      Like you, I love those books. They are going to be finished — and while I am not going to be the person who will get to finish them, my dear friend (and a wonderful fantasy writer) will be finishing them for me.

  2. Jesper Avatar
    Jesper

    Hello Holly
    I found one of your blogs of specific interest 🙂
    Do you do 1-to-1 coaching/mentoring ?
    Thanks,
    Jesper

    1. Holly Lisle Avatar
      Holly Lisle

      Occasionally, when I have time. I haven’t had the time lately, but when I do, I let folks on my newsletter know. It’s not anything I post publicly.

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