Holly Lisle: Writer

Category: Administrivia

  • I’m … um … redesigning the site

    …in case you missed the vivid new colors and still-not-working slider menu in the header. Did as much as I could before I took it live… but expect a mess today. I should have everything done by tomorrow, though. I hope.

  • A little sneak preview of the new shop

    I don’t have everything (or even close to everything) in place yet, but if you want to see how the DRM-free stuff is going to work, I have a couple of books and the first five HTTS lessons available, and I’m moving over the other stuff as quickly as I can. http://howtothinksideways.com/shop It’s still a…

  • 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.

  • Upgrade issues.

    All the menus for the weblog are missing following the upgrade of the site. Further, I’ve discovered that my entire blogroll has vanished, and apparently did so some time back, when I changed the site over from Joomla to WordPress. I apologize for the lack of navigation within the weblog, and I have a call…

  • The Blog Rules Discussion

    This post exists so that if you have specific questions about the rules on this blog, you can ask them. It does not exist for you to debate examples I’ve used to demonstrate the rules. I will happily answer your questions about the rules. I will delete debate. This is not a debate post.

  • The Air Force Kid is back from Afghanistan

    After a very bad one-year deployment in Afghanistan, my kid is is back in the States, and on his way home to see us. I am closing EVERYTHING until he has to go back to work, and I will not be available during this time to read e-mail, check student support/customer service, or deal with…

  • Discussing “I’ve quit Big Publishing” to publish myself

    Below is the start of an article that’s been a long time coming. After years of publishing my fiction through big commercial publishers, with thirty-two novels sold to the big New York houses as well as to international publishers around the planet, and more than a million books in print, I have decided to move…

  • Heads Up on the Book That Changes Publishing

    Last week, like a zillion other writers, I received notice of the publication of John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in Five Months. I bought it. It fits PERFECTLY with How To Think Sideways and How To Revise Your Novel. I’ve been focusing heavily on teaching the traditional path to publishing because I’m…

  • Why I’m Deleting My Facebook Account

    Today, nearly a week after a Lulzsec/Lulz Security hack resulted in my Facebook page being hacked by jackasses who sent awful spam to nearly a thousand of my students, friends, and family members before I could get the page blocked, Facebook finally got back to me on my account. Hi Holly, Your account was suspended…

  • Facebook Hacker Crime Update

    I reported the hacking of my Facebook account to the FBI. I ALSO received a notice from Facebook that my account was blocked because I’d posted porn. Considering I’m the person who requested my account be blocked because I was hacked, I’m very unhappy with Facebook’s clueless handling of this issue, and not sure I’ll…