Category Archives: Big Courses

Help Make “Born from Fire” a FREE book

Posted on by April 13, 2017
Born from Fire: Longview 1

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 is if they’re inundated by … Continue reading →

My How To Write A Series Course is LIVE!

Posted on by April 13, 2017
How to Write a Series

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 the class. This is RAW … Continue reading →

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

Posted on by April 13, 2017
How to Write a Series

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 cases, really frustrated questions. Your … Continue reading →

The Tale of the Tail in the TalysMana Revision

Posted on by February 6, 2017
Revision Help

Last Friday, I printed out my manuscript and my revision worksheets, located my  pens, and set everything aside. Saturday was to be my first day of revision. And Saturday with the the big table cleared for writing, I started into revising my badly wrecked fantasy novel TalysMana, written back in 2010. I was planning on doing the way I always … Continue reading →

Getting the books out, getting the word out.

Posted on by January 24, 2017
Longview 2: The Selling of Suzee Delight

The second edition of Tales from the Longview, Episode 2: The Selling of Suzee Delight has entered distribution today. This is the sequel to Tales from The Longview, Episode 1: Born from Fire (previously released as Enter the Death Circus), now available permanently for free. I’m hoping to have the third episode, The Philosopher Gambit, ready to publish in two weeks. … Continue reading →

Minerva Wakes re-release, and new revision freebie

Posted on by December 7, 2016

The Story: Ahead of a coming storm, Minerva Kiakra is fighting her way through crowded grocery aisles, when the last box of cereal is yanked from her grasp… …by the impossible. She does not see a dragon. Does not. Does NOT. And when the same dragon cuts her off in traffic? No, no, no. But the thing she doesn’t want … Continue reading →

For the first time ever, I’m writing a novel in NaNoWriMo

Posted on by October 31, 2016

I’ve spent the past few years doing very little fiction. First there were the problems with WordPress on my writing site that broke my writing classes and wrecked my income, and which had to be fixed. Then there were the five surgeries in twelve months that caused me enormous pain, a lot of down time for recovery, and meant I … Continue reading →

HowToThinkSideways.com Site Move: LAST Chance to Correct Your Account

Posted on by October 26, 2015

The move over at HowToThinkSideways.com is starting We’re starting to move member accounts onto the live new software, new domain, and new classrooms this week. In order to receive your new temporary password, you MUST have a working email address in your current account. Here are the steps to make sure you’ll be able to get to your stuff (INCLUDING … Continue reading →