Bones of the Past (Arhel) (40 page)

And the nightmares morphed into fiction.

And rereading this book for the first time in about fifteen years, I found myself back in that jungle again. And realized I got the trees right.

Life is full of little gifts like this, if you’re paying attention. Most of them, you’ll discover when you recognize what amazing gifts they were, will not have been the cheery, bright moments when you were golden and everyone was happy.

No.

They’ll have been the moments when you were utterly certain that something horrifying was about to happen, and it was going to feature you. Probably buttered and on toast.

So here’s to the moments you dreaded, locked away in the back of your mind, waiting for you to turn them into your own magic. May you get something wonderful from them.

Cheerfully,
Holly Lisle
Monday, October 24, 2011

HOLLY LISLE has been writing novels professionally since 1991, when she sold
Fire in the Mist
to Baen Books. The novel went on to win the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel in 1993, sold remarkably well, and stayed in print for about ten years, giving Holly a seriously skewed view of the ease of publishing…

…Which publishing promptly clobbered out of her with later books. In spite of which, she has, at the time of this writing, sold 32 novels commercially, and is both re-releasing many of her novels via self-publishing, and self-publishing her newest novels.

Look for the re-release of
Cadence Drake: Hunting the
Corrigan’s Blood
, to kick off the long-delayed but finally in-progress ten-book
Cadence Drake
series.

Get her latest book announcements here:
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Lisle also wrote and has been teaching two of the most challenging fiction-writing courses in existence:
How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers
, and
How To Revise Your Novel: Get the Book You WANT From the One You WROTE
.

Get a year of free weekly writing tips and updates on her courses here:
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FICTION

Cadence Drake: Warpaint (coming soon)

Cadence Drake: Hunting the
Corrigan’s Blood

The Ruby Key: Moon & Sun

The Silver Door: Moon & Sun

Hawkspar: A Novel of Korre

Talyn: A Novel of Korre

Night Echoes

I See You

Last Girl Dancing

Midnight Rain

Memory of Fire: World Gates

The Wreck of Heaven: World Gates

Gods Old and Dark: World Gates

Diplomacy of Wolves: Secret Texts

Vengeance of Dragons: Secret Texts

Courage of Falcons: Secret Texts

Vincalis the Agitator: Secret Texts

Fire in the Mist: Arhel

Bones of the Past: Arhel

Mind of the Magic: Arhel

Glenraven; (w/ Marion Zimmer Bradley)

In The Rift (w/ Marion Zimmer Bradley)

Sympathy for the Devil: Devil’s Point

The Devil and Dan Cooley (w/ Walter Spence): Devil’s Point

Hell on High (w/ Ted Nolan): Devil’s Point

Minerva Wakes

When the Bough Breaks (w/ Mercedes Lackey)

Mall, Mayhem and Magic; (w/ Chris Guin)

The Rose Sea; (with S.M.Stirling)

Curse of the Black Heron

Thunder of the Captains (w/ Aaron Allston)

Wrath of the Princes (w/ Aaron Allston)

WRITING COURSES

How To Think Sideways: Career Survival School for Writers

How To Revise Your Novel: Get the Book You WANT from the Wreck You WROTE

Holly Lisle’s How To Write A Series

Holly Lisle’s Create A Character Clinic

Holly Lisle’s Create A Plot Clinic

Holly Lisle’s Create A Language Clinic

Holly Lisle’s Create A Culture Clinic

Holly Lisle’s Create A World Clinic (coming soon)

How to Write Page-Turning Scenes

How to Find Your Writing Discipline

How to Beat Writer’s Block

21 Ways to Get Yourself Writing When Your Life Has Just Exploded

How to Write Dialogue with Subtext

How to Motivate Yourself

Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love AND Money

Kindle Version
ISBN-10 1937533158
ISBN-13 9781937533151

Epub Version
ISBN-10 1937533166
ISBN-13 9781937533168

Print Version
ISBN-10: 1466472987
ISBN-13: 9781466472983

Cover Design: Holly Lisle

Cover Images:
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Copyright © 1993, 2011 by Holly Lisle. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

First publication: Baen Books, 1993

Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

This book is a work of fiction. Characters, names, places, and incidents in this novel are either the products of the imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, either living or dead, to events, businesses, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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