It Came From Beneath the Slush Pile

(Twenty fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and st...)

Twenty fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and students If there’s one thing more fun than writing awesome stories, it’s occasionally indulging in the worst excesses and writing awesomely bad stories. Holly Lisle and a group of her students put all of the most clichéd, badly formed, and just plain wrong techniques into as few words as they could, and gathered them together as a way of leading by (horrific) example and illustrating why sometimes, the rules really are there to help (and yes, run-on sentences are bad too). For learning should always be fun. This anthology contains stories by Holly Lisle, Bill Bush, Erica Damon, Danger Dave, DB Eldridge, Ava Fairhall, Peg Fisher, Katharina Gerlach, Gloria Hanlon, Madison Keller, K.V. Moffet, Ruth Sard, Laura Thurston, Tom Vetter

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Holly Lisle's Create A Plot Clinic

(Struggling to put together a compelling, coherent plot? H...)

Struggling to put together a compelling, coherent plot? Have a stack of stalled 30-page novel starts? Have a finished manuscript and the sinking feeling something's wrong? Pro novelist Holly Lisle walks you through the simple, fun, effective techniques she's used to plot her 30+ published novels (and counting). Learn to plot without fear of error, to enjoy a process that keeps your story fresh, to adapt your plot to brilliant middle-of-the-book inspiration WITHOUT derailing your writing process, and much more. Holly Lisle's Create A Plot Clinic is a funny, relaxed, and comprehensive start-to-finish course with a step-by-step process that includes worksheets, examples, and how-to advice for writers of every genre, and for every experience level---from absolute beginner with no idea how to get started, to published pro looking for an easier way to beat a tight deadline.

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Professional Plot Outline Mini-Course: Introduction to Plotting

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Strange Arrivals: Ten Tiny, Twisty Fantasy Tales

(YOU’VE TAKEN UP WITH DISTURBING COMPANIONS There’s a fair...)

YOU’VE TAKEN UP WITH DISTURBING COMPANIONS There’s a fairy in the garden, A monster in the closet, An alien in the back yard, And a ghost by the refrigerator… One mirror lies, One dragon makes an ally, One ring bites… And they don’t make genies like they used to, Or gorgeous models… Or even princesses. Ten short, startling fantasy tales from Holly Lisle, author of Talyn, Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood, Warpaint, Fire in the Mist, and much more.

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Born From Fire

(When love is crime, who will save the guilty? MEET THE LO...)

When love is crime, who will save the guilty? MEET THE LONGVIEW - An Ancient Spaceship Resurrected To Transport Conspiracy Inhabited by a crew of misfits fleeing nightmare pasts, with a cargo of Condemned slated to die at the hands of the highest bidders, and with a passenger roster made up exclusively of people NOT who they claim to be, The Longview serves the hidden agenda of an eccentric recluse bent on playing puppetmaster to all of Settled Space. Author's note: This story was previously published as ENTER THE DEATH CIRCUS. EPISODE 1: When love is crime, who will save the guilty? After falling in love and fathering a child, a young criminal refuses to voluntarily throw himself into a lake of fire to gain his community's forgiveness. So he's sentenced to death and sold to the owner of a spaceship that buys criminals like him. But the ship and its crew are not quite what they appear to be.

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Memory of Fire: Book One of The World Gates ooks

(Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat...)

Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina -- and she crosses over, driven by a strange compulsion she can neither resist nor comprehend. Molly McColl is brought there against her will -- kidnapped from her trailer and carried into a realm that traps her, terrifies her...yet offers her a strange and wondrous escape. In an extraordinary universe of magic and monsters, two strangers sharing only pain and loss must now pursue the destiny that has united them. Because worlds are suddenly threatened by an evil beyond imagining -- the world they have entered...and the one the have left behind.

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Holly Lisle's How To Write Page-Turning Scenes

(Have your characters gone on strike? Find yourself explai...)

Have your characters gone on strike? Find yourself explaining your story instead of telling it? Do your scenes race by so quickly you put only the barest hint of what you want on the page? Not sure what a scene really is? Pro novelist Holly Lisle teaches the simple, fun, effective techniques she's used to plot her 30+ published novels (and counting). Learn the five types of conflict that keep readers hooked, the two elements EVERY scene must have, know when scenes are going to be good (or bad) BEFORE you write them, discover how to misdirect most of your readers most of the time, and much more. Holly Lisle's How To Write Page-Turning Scenes is a funny, relaxed, and comprehensive start-to-finish course with a step-by-step process that includes worksheets, examples, and how-to advice for writers of every genre, and for every experience level---from absolute beginner needing basics, to the published pro looking to notch up suspense and bring in new readers while thrilling existing ones.

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Hunting the Corrigan's Blood

(Cadence Drake is a finder of lost things. Badger Bede is ...)

Cadence Drake is a finder of lost things. Badger Bede is a technical wizard adept at creating programs that make Cady'slife easier. Both are handy with a stunner. All their talents are put to the test as they search for the CORRIGAN'S BLOOD, a new kind of TFN-drive spaceship with some very special abilities. At first it looks like their dream job -- the job that will allow them to pay off their own ship, the HOPE'S REWARD, and to be more picky about the clients and work they accept -- but they quickly learn that every dream has a price. Because behind the stolen ship lies the mystery of the people who stole it, people who appear to be using this insanely expensive vessel and others like it to smuggle inexpensive medicine to people who don't need it. And behind that mystery is another... Why are all these people linked to Cady's past and the one person who made it impossible for her to ever go home again? And why does everyone in the universe want Cady dead? ------------------ Book includes a gift from the author; a download of the song "Didn't Expect That," written for the book and performed by the author. (Author notes, drolly, that author is in fact a writer who sings and plays guitar, and not a singer or guitarist who writes, and you'll like the song a lot better if you keep this in mind.)

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Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love AND Money

(Want to Get PAID for Writing What You LOVE? In this colle...)

Want to Get PAID for Writing What You LOVE? In this collection of thirty-one essays, workshops, quizzes, Q&As, and how-to-do-it articles, novelist Holly Lisle -- who went pro with her award-winning first novel, Fire in the Mist, in 1992 and who's been writing full-time ever since (more than thirty novels published by major publishers, and still writing) offers help, comfort, and wry practical advice to the beginning fiction writer looking for answers. In the second edition of this book, Holly walks writers through Preparation, Practice, Writing & Selling, and Frequently Asked Questions, offering end-of-chapter exercises, workshops, and free downloadable worksheets designed to get the individual writer or members of writers' groups working productively with publication as the goal. In this newly updated writing course, you will discover: Why you want to write... What you want to write... Who you want to write for... How to write only what you love and what matters to YOU... How to make your work good... And how to get paid for doing it. Writing is a learnable skill, not a magical process only those touched by the Book Fairy, or the Muse, can ever reach. If you want to write fiction, you can.

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