Holly Lisle: Writer

Category: Hawkspar

  • FRIDAY SNIPPET: The Stowaway

    I’m doing Hawkspar copyedits today, so this snippet is fresh in my mind. This is from Aaran’s POV (Aaran is by this time captain of his own beat-up ship and on his way to rescue Hawkspar). Some of the men have caught a young stowaway on board, and locked him in one of the ship’s…

  • Friday Snippet–A piece of the rat scene from Hawkspar

    This is a very short section of an enormous scene in HAWKSPAR, in which the heroine of the story, not yet Hawkspar, is being put on trial for the implied sins of her mentor. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, first draft, probably buggy, and possibly not even going to be in the final draft. Do…

  • Finally back to work

    Writing of any variety hasn’t been going too well the last few days. Stress doesn’t go away when things start looking better, because the possibility that they’ll get worse again always exists. But I’m making nice progress on the type-in of the Green Magic proposal right now. It feels good to be writing again. I…

  • Missing Time, The HAWKSPAR Copyedit, and a fine line-for-scene

    So we have the heroine breaking the hero out of prison, and the hero getting shot and being half an inch from death, and stuff I’m not going to tell you about, and more stuff I’m not going to tell you about, and then the heroine telling the hero that’s when she killed herself, and…

  • Belated Friday Snippet: Hawkspar

    It’s been a grim week. Got most of the writing done, but it’s been hard. Snippet this week is from HAWKSPAR. Apologies for being so late with it. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, first draft, probably buggy, and possibly not even going to be in the final draft. Do not quote or repost anywhere or…

  • News on HAWKSPAR

    I can barely believe this, and I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But… Tor is printing out galleys now for HAWKSPAR, and will be sending a few to me. Without cutting the book in half and printing it as two books. Without me cutting 60,000 words from the text. According to Robin,…

  • So now that I’m done…

    Okay. The Mac sending mail sound has just echoed across the computer, which means the finished Ruby Key is on its way to my agent, Robin. I’m pretty wiped out, but very happy with the book. It wrapped at 63,000 words, which was well within my target zone, the new ending worked beautifully, (though I…

  • On HAWKSPAR

    On my fifteen-minute stretch break, so this will have to be fast. Got news this morning that Anna Genoese is leaving Tor on the 20th, and that I’ll have a new editor. Anna says she’ll finish the edits on HAWKSPAR before she leaves, but obviously I won’t be able to finish them by the end…

  • Quick Update

    Deadline 1: Got the GREEN MAGIC proposal off to Robin a couple days ago, heard back from her yesterday with revision requests (very small—overall, she was excited about the proposal), made the revisions over a couple of hours yesterday and resent the complete package, and that will go off to the editor, possibly today. Deadline…

  • The rewrite has been all-consuming.

    The first draft of the Green Magic proposal went quickly. The second draft took another two days of massive work, because, well, I’m picky as hell and I ripped the first draft to shreds. It’s done, it’s a bit longer, and I’m doing type-in now, and will be working late into the night. The rest…