Category: YA
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Upcoming Stories and Classes #writer #reader
I’ve been nearly invisible here for ages because migraines left me with barely enough energy to keep courses running and get some writing done. But a low-sodium diet is proving to have a 1:1 correlation with the migraines—if I accidentally eat something high in sodium, I pay for it with three days of migraines, starting…
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I’m officially on Holiday Hours #wabwm
Getting the whole month of December off didn’t quite work out. But I am taking off the rest of the month. I don’t remember ever having been this tired before, but I now have a chance to rest. Mostly. Sort of. UNTIL MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, I’ll do Student Support on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It’s…
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Discussing the MOON & SUN series: The Ruby Key, The Silver Door, and The Emerald Sun
My most frequently asked question on THE MOON & SUN series is “When are you going to do the next book?” So I’ll answer that one now. I’m doing it next. When I come back to work after my break in December, I’m putting together the rest of the Create a World Clinic, and will…
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Do I still recommend John Locke? No.
Back at the end of June, 2011, I read a book that succeeded because of a lie, and I turned my entire life upside down as a result of that lie. The book was, of course, John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million Ebooks in 5 Months. Like a lot of other writers, I let…
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Writing Projects Gone Weird: or, Saturday, I Knit A Cat
The migraines and vertigo are back with a vengeance, and I’m stuck in horizontal mode (laptop propped on lap and lying down as I write this, in fact). So Saturday, I dragged out some cotton string (a very nice German variegated yarn), and needles, and did one of the few things that doesn’t make me…
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Bracing For The Storm
I’ve been doing HTTS Walkthrough prep and setup all week. Site set-up, lesson template setup, student set-up. Today I did workflow setup. Because I’m doing two projects at once, and because one is nonfiction and one is fiction, and because they are inextricably locked together like Siamese twins—and because both are MASSIVE projects, either of…
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The Last Moon & Sun and the Think Sideways Walkthrough
More than a month after I intended to start, (due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control™), today I’m beginning The Last Moon & Sun…which is not the title of the book, but I have to call it something until I have a real title. This is not a little project. This is…well, mammoth. Why? One: I…
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Courses, classes, and novel for 2011
So…I’ve been MIA for a bit more than two months. I’m back now, and ready to get down to the cool stuff, but before I get to that, here’s where I’ve been, and why: After losing just about six months last year to constant migraines, vertigo, and there for a while the dread that I…
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I’m not dead. I’m doing taxes.
Pretty much the same thing, right? I have news, I have course announcements, and I have other things—but those all have to wait until the tax stuff is done. I’ll try to post all the good stuff here on February 1st. Until then, I’m singing Eleven months out of the year It’s fun to be…
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HollyLisle.NET and My Video Contest
Do a fantasy movie trailer about my Current Contest novel. Enter. You could win up to $500.