Category Archives: How To Write A Series

Help Make “Born from Fire” a FREE book

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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!

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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!

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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 →

Getting the books out, getting the word out.

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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 →

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

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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 →

Round 1 Testing for New Holly Lisle Writing School Website: 39 Volunteers Requested Now

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CANCELLED WebinarJam has crashed every time but one on this, with people unable to reach rooms I’m in. I’ve checked my links, I’ve checked their links, and at this point, the only thing I can do to stop wasting people’s time is give up. I’m going to see if there’s some way to do this same process with Skype. I’ll … Continue reading →

Video & Podcast Test: How To Write Suckitudinous Fiction

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I chose one of my funnier articles on writing fiction and turned it into both a video and a podcast. I’m testing new software that I hope to use for a number of different applications, including workshops, and I’d like to know how these two formats work for you. VIDEO TEST: AUDIO TEST YOUTUBE LINK: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTAksz1NFyc … Continue reading →

The Philosopher Gambit is off to the copyeditor!

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Finally. I’m having the folks at Silver Jay do an in-depth proofread for me—I’ll do the clean-up and publish when I get it back. I’m considering offering a print version of the first three stories, which would give the reader the equivalent of a 90,000-word novel. I KNOW I’m going to offer this book later, when I have all six … Continue reading →

Lessons from the Fall: Beta Test Hell

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To see if I could make things easier for writers using the How To Think Sideways site, (still with the shop locked while it awaits installation of the interim site), I put together a beta test site using a theme I thought would help, and a plugin I REALLY thought would help. (Both theme and plugin shall remain nameless because … Continue reading →

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