Holly Lisle: 25 books

20 Kinds of Stupid: An Anthology of Idiot Heroes and Ridiculous Heroines 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....

How do you invent great story people? Readers fall in love with good characters, while writers wreck their characters in countless ways. Skip the wreckage. Learn to create characters your readers will love, and that you'll have fun writing. Use this simple, step-by-step system...

* Write characters who are fascinating and believable. * Give your characters compelling needs that resonate with readers. * Use the seven critical areas of character development to prevent "cardboard characters" and address areas of your characters' lives you've never considered before. *...

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 of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...

**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 in the universe you want to go.  Home. Cady...

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 depths of magic within herself not even she suspected.  Dragged...

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 struggles against conspiracy to win the bidding for her execution. Meanwhile,...

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. Unneeded, unwanted, Faia discovers facts about herself she never suspected. But...

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 finding the meaning behind Bashtyk Nokyd’s enigmatic final diagram. Drawing the most undesirable assignment, Jex and an...

When the truth comes out, who is left standing? In this final episode of the series. the Longview reveals its secrets, Herog finds the path to protecting the City of Furies, and Melie discovers the truth about the ship she captains and the owner she serves. MEET THE LONGVIEW - An Ancient...

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 forgotten and thought to mythical. But before they can even hope to discover...

When the trusted are monsters... one monster becomes a hero. In the vast reaches of Settled Space, everything is legal, or at least obtainable privately... for a price. Science has created near immortality, and the wealthy and powerful are buying it to make themselves gods. But these...

Mistakes were made. Hindsight is 20/20, but when bloodsuckers attacking your spaceship's hull, that's not helpful. You can tell yourself, "Next time, accept the lap dance, and turn down the "easy" job. Cady did it the other way round, thinking that rescuing her client's...

A new, thrilling adventure from Lisle is set in the same fantasy world as the popular Secret Texts trilogy--a world where a sorcery called Dragon Magic draws its powers from the agony of slaves who are killed for sorcerous fuel until three heroes challenge this inhuman cruelty.