Category: Publishing News

  • Migraines and Vertigo Redux

    I started having headaches about halfway through last week. On Friday, they turned into migraines and icepick migraines. On Saturday, the vertigo returned, and the headaches stayed. I got a few hundred words written on Saturday and again on Sunday on WARPAINT, but did not do anything online. I’m working on LESSON 23 of the…

  • Production Covers and NEW Afterwords: Arhel Trilogy, and Sympathy for the Devil

    First, I’ve decided to write a new afterword for every one of my books I reprint. One of the things I did last week. 😀 I had a lot of fun writing them, and got to talk about the experience of writing them, and then working with them again years later. I also got the…

  • 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…

  • Discussing “Fun…With Teeth”

    Back when I first got published, I signed a lot of my books with a little extra exuberance—I drew a toothy smiley face and wrote in under it the words “Fun…With Teeth.” Which was how I saw my fiction—I always wanted my readers to laugh, but I wanted some real edge in there, too. Because,…

  • Rebel Tales has closed.

    Due to the nature of the actions taken by Ms. Ferrari, and to how these actions reflect both on Rebel Tales and on me, and because I cannot guarantee that some other person will never misrepresent himself and his actions while using my name and the name of Rebel Tales as cover for wrongdoing, I…

  • Misrepresentation by former Rebel Tales PROSPECTIVE editor

    URGENT: For all writers and other folks interested in working with—or already working with—REBEL TALES. Over the weekend I received an entire series of emails forwarded to my by REBEL TALES editor Kari Wolfe, who was contacted by a frustrated author after a former PROSPECTIVE editor of Rebel Tales misrepresented herself as a full editor…

  • Rebel Tales Submissions Go Live

    You’ve probably read about my war for the midlist—to recreate something that should never have been destroyed. You may have read my New Year’s Resolution. Well. I’ve almost got one piece of the puzzle done. And I just turned fifty a couple weeks ago, so I’m even almost on schedule. Holly Lisle’s Rebel Tales is…

  • Updated Writers’ Guidelines for Rebel Tales

    Due to a number of questions via various channels, I’ve updated the Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines. I’ve done a lot of clarification on payment, and other smaller clarifications, added some new definitions, restructured the page so that writing guidelines are first, publishing information is second, and submission guidelines are third, and corrected errors pointed out.…

  • Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines Now Posted

    They read like a short, curmudgeonly course on how to write fiction, but I have them up and posted. You can read them here: Rebel Tales Writers’ Guidelines As noted elsewhere, I’m NOT ready for submissions yet. But you may have to write a whole new story to fit the guidelines, so I’ve posted them…

  • 2YN: The Two Year Novel–Year 2 now available

    I’m delighted to announce the arrival of the second and final volume of Lazette Gifford’s standing-room-only 2-Year-Novel course. Buy today, read today!