Holly Lisle (born 1960) is an American writer of

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, science fiction,

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and

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novels. She is also known for her work in educating writers, including her e-book ''Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love And Money'', starting the Forward Motion Writers' Community web site, and her novel-writing and revision courses ''How to Think Sideways''.

Bibliography

Unless otherwise noted, books on this list are fantasy.

Series

Arhel

*1992 '' Fire in the Mist'' (

Compton Crook Award The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best English language first novel of the year in the field of science fiction, fantasy, or horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at their annual science fiction convention, Baltic ...

winner) *1993 ''Bones of the Past'' *1995 ''Mind of the Magic''

Glenraven

Co-authored with

Marion Zimmer Bradley Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel ''The Mists of Avalon'' an ...

*1996 ''Glenraven'' *1998 ''In the Rift – Glenraven II''

Devil's Point

*1996 ''Sympathy for the Devil'' *1996 ''The Devil and Dan Cooley'' (with Walter Spence) *1997 ''Hell on High'' (with Ted Nolan)

Bard's Tale

*1996 ''Thunder of the Captains'' (with

Aaron Allston Aaron Dale Allston (December 8, 1960 – February 27, 2014) was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably ''Star Wars'' novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, severa ...

) *1997 ''Wrath of the Princes'' (with

) *1998 ''Curse of the Black Heron''

The Secret Texts

*2002 ''Vincalis the Agitator'' (a prequel to the other three books which form a trilog

ref> *1998 ''Diplomacy of Wolves'' *1999 ''Vengeance of Dragons'' *2000 ''Courage of Falcons''

World Gates

*2002 ''Memory of Fire'' *2003 ''The Wreck of Heaven'' *2004 ''Gods Old and Dark''

Korre

*2005 ''Talyn'' *2008 ''Hawkspar'' *Yet to be Published: Redbird

Moon and Sun

*2008 '' The Ruby Key'' *2009 '' The Silver Door'' Cadence Drake
(Science Fiction) * 1997 ''Hunting the Corrigan's Blood'' * 2012 ''Warpaint'' Tales from the Longview (set in the same universe as the Cadence Drake series)
(Science Fiction) * 2017 ''Born From Fire'' (originally published as "''Enter The Death Circus''" in 2014) * 2017 ''The Selling of Suzee Delight'' * 2017 ''The Philosopher Gambit'' * 2017 ''Gunslinger Moon'' * 2018 ''Vipers’ Nest'' Short Fiction
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Other fiction

*1992 ''When the Bough Breaks'' (with

Mercedes Lackey Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include i ...

, set in the

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series) *1993 ''Minerva Wakes'' *1994 ''The Rose Sea'' (with S.M. Stirling) *1995 ''Mall, Mayhem and Magic'' (with

Chris Guin Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name * Chris Abani (born 1966), N ...

) *2004 ''Midnight Rain'' (paranormal romantic suspense) *2005 ''Last Girl Dancing'' (paranormal romantic suspense) *2006 ''I See You'' (paranormal romantic suspense) *2007 ''Night Echoes'' (paranormal romantic suspense)

Books for writers (non-fiction)

*2000 ''Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love and Money'' (non-fiction) (e-book) *2006 ''Create a Character Clinic'' (non-fiction) (e-book, available via the author's web shop) *2006 ''Create a Language Clinic'' (non-fiction) (e-book) *2006 ''Create a Culture Clinic'' (non-fiction) (e-book) *2007 ''Create a Plot Clinic'' (non-fiction) (e-book) *2008 ''How to write page-turning scenes'' (non-fiction) (e-book) *2014: ''Create a World Clinic'' (non-fiction) (e-book)

References

External links

Official web site

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