Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle (October 8, 1960 – August 27, 2024)^[1] was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. She was 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.^[2]

Bibliography

Unless otherwise noted, books on this list are fantasy.

Series

Arhel

• 1992 Fire in the Mist (Compton Crook Award winner)^[3]
• 1993 Bones of the Past
• 1995 Mind of the Magic

Glenraven

Co-authored with Marion Zimmer Bradley

• 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)
• 1997 Wrath of the Princes (with Aaron Allston)
• 1998 Curse of the Black Heron

The Secret Texts

• 2002 Vincalis the Agitator (a prequel to the other three books which form a trilogy)^[4]
• 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^[5]

Moon and Sun

• 2008 The Ruby Key
• 2009 The Silver Door

Cadence Drake^[5] (Science Fiction)

• 1997 Hunting the Corrigan's Blood
• 2012 Warpaint

Tales from the Longview (set in the same universe as the Cadence Drake series) ^[5] (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
• 2018 The Owner's Tale^[5]

Short Fiction

• Armor-ella^[6]
• Bad Bottle^[6]

Other fiction

• 1992 When the Bough Breaks (with Mercedes Lackey, set in the SERRAted Edge series)
• 1993 Minerva Wakes
• 1994 The Rose Sea (with S.M. Stirling)
• 1995 Mall, Mayhem and Magic (with Chris Guin)
• 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)