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History & Criticism
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... See More
Nonfiction
Solve a mermaid's problem... Step off the edge of a roof... Dig up a grave at midnight... Take advice from a fortune cookie... Visit the last library... Meet a bridge troll... And more... In one instant, like a bolt... See More
Education & Reference
PENDING AN AMAZON-UPGRADABLE UPDATE WITH EASIER ACCESS TO ALL WORKSHEETS, CLASSROOM, and FORUM, THIS CLASS WILL NOW BE PRICED AT $3.99 PERMANENTLY. Struggling to put together a compelling, coherent plot? Have a stack of... See More
Education & Reference
Are your character names lame? Do your characters all speak like you---or worse, in horrible, unreadable accents? Do you need to develop conflict among characters or people who don't speak the same language? Pro novelist... See More
Education & Reference
PENDING AN AMAZON-UPGRADABLE UPDATE WITH EASIER ACCESS TO ALL WORKSHEETS, CLASSROOM, and FORUM, THIS CLASS WILL NOW BE PRICED AT $3.99 PERMANENTLY. Have your characters gone on strike? Do you find yourself explaining your... See More
Education & Reference
Could all your characters fit right in at your local mall? Even if you've set them in 10th century Italy or modern-day Russia... or on another planet? Need some help giving your characters the diverse backgrounds REAL people... See More
Education & Reference
PENDING AN AMAZON-UPGRADABLE UPDATE WITH EASIER ACCESS TO ALL WORKSHEETS, CLASSROOM, and FORUM, THIS CLASS WILL NOW BE PRICED AT $3.99 PERMANENTLY. Every Fiction Writer Builds Worlds... You know you want to hook your... See More
Fantasy
SHORT DESCRIPTION: When a young widow abruptly loses her beloved husband, she finds a way to reconnect with him... but there's a price. REVIEW: "This is a hauntingly brilliant story about second chances. Sam and Sarah are... See More
Fantasy
Life Is Choice, Not Destiny At the center of a dirt crossroad, a woman who has lost everyone she ever cared about buries the tokens of her damaged life and makes a deal with the darkness for one more chance to relive her... See More
Science Fiction
It's a fine interstellar line between recapture and freedom. Her one act of kindness will trigger an epic fight to restore cosmic justice. Box set: Over 600 pages of massive intergalactic battles exposing the dark heart of... See More
Contemporary Fiction
Kait Galweigh, her Sabir lover Ry and his cousin Ian have captured the Mirror of Souls, an artefact that can confer immortality, but only at huge cost to the innocents whose souls are used to feed it. But while Kait and her... See More
Fantasy
Kait Galwiegh is now a fugitive, seeking the Mirror of Souls in order to resurrect her lost family. But to get it she must battle with Crispin Abir, who believes the artefact will make him god. Both are terribly wrong; using... See More
Science Fiction
When betrayal comes home, where does home hide? When the Longview risked everything to save the life of the doomed courtesan Suzee Delight, Bailey's Irish Space Station stepped up and offered the ship sanctuary. But the... See More
Science Fiction
When freedom is silenced, who speaks for it? Ex-PHTF slave WE-39R (This Criminal, from Episode 1), renamed Jex, is part of a team the Longview's Owner has tasked with nding the meaning behind Bashtyk Nokyd's enigmatic nal... See More
Science Fiction
When the mighty are monsters, what will monsters become? EPISODE 3: An exiled philosopher buys a pretty girl a dress for her execution, by doing so becoming a hunted, wanted man with a death sentence on his own head and... See More
Science Fiction
When slavery is virtue, who will fight for vice? When Suzee Delight, famous Cheegoth courtesan, murders the five most powerful Pact Worlds' Administrators during a private summit, the owner of The Longview Death Circus... See More
Fantasy
Kait Galweigh is a diplomat working to keep the Galweigh Family powerful, honourable and respected. Her particular task is to ensure that the arranged marriage of her flighty cousin, Tippa, is not compromised either by... See More
Science Fiction
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... See More
Science Fiction
Bloodsuckers attacking your spaceship's hull? Rule 1: Accept the lap dance... Rule 2: Refuse the "easy" milk-run job. Next time you'll learn. If there is a next time. Cady did it the other way round, thinking that... See More
Science Fiction
Your mother frames you for murder? Flee... Change your name... Build a new life far, far away. At least that's what you do until the survival of humanity depends on you, and the problem takes you back to the last place... See More
Fantasy
Remember Which Road Is Paved With Good Intentions? Hell's cloven hooves have landed in North Carolina in a big way. Jobs are leaving, people are fleeing, and more than 50,000 Hellraised are... well... raising Hell. But DJ... See More
Fantasy
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... See More
Education & Reference
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... See More
Education & Reference
No one is BORN a writer (just as no one is BORN a lawyer). We all have to learn the SAME skills. But no matter where you're starting... Even if you have NO story ideas, NO characters, and NO experience, you can finish a... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, Nurse Dayne Kuttner puts her soul on the line to bargain with God for amnesty for Hell's damned. But when God not only listens, but takes the deal she offers literally, her world turns... See More
Fantasy
Ahead of a coming storm, Minerva Kiakra is fighting her way through crowded grocery aisles, when the last box of cereal is yanked from her grasp... ... by the impossible. She does not see a dragon. Does not. Does NOT. And... See More
Fantasy
In North Carolina, It's Just One Damned Thing After Another Three years after Hell sets up an outpost in North Carolina, engineer Jack Halloran doesn't find it unusual that the devil-plagued state is where he gets to work... See More
Horror
The Source of the World's Magic Has Gone Mad... To Faia Rissedote's dismay, the use of magic in Arhel has gotten out of control, and even people who could never use magic before are suddenly building castles in the air... See More
Fantasy
Sometimes the Mysteries of the Past Are Better Left Alone... A ragtag band of outcast children lead Faia Rissedote, Medwind Song, and a group of wizard researchers in search of Arhel's Lost City of the First Folk, long... See More
Fantasy
Winner of the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel A young shepherdess, drawn home from the fields by the haunted certainty that something is wrong, discovers her world utterly destroyed, and in the process unleashes... See More