Holly Denise

@hollyda.bsky.social

Professional editor. Author of lots of stuff. One of the founders & current administrator of Elysian Fields Spuffy Fanwork Archive. Often on the EF account here on Bluesky. She/her. elysianfieldsarchive.com hollydenise.com storiesbyholly.com

Them: What can you possibly do with Carrie that hasn't been done before? We've already seen this! Mike Flanagan: *does something different* Them: WHY DID YOU CHANGE SO MUCH? jfc people are exhausting.

It's the International Day for Failure, so we're going to celebrate the biggest cringefail in Buffyverse. Failed so hard at killing the Slayer he ended up sacrificing himself for her. "This is the crack team that foils my every plan? I am deeply shamed." You should be, Spike. You should be.

Buffy and Spike looking startled

On a brief mini vacay with Mr. Holly and I thought I'd try to knock a few names off my Christmas shopping list. They have such eclectic local shops down here and the goth vibes are STRONG. The name I marked off: my own. Oops.

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I used AutoCrit's Market Fuel tool to assess one of my WIPs based on the outline/premise, and I know this should make me rethink everything, but instead I am just even more excited. Oops.

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Booked an appointment with a local photographer for author headshots and had a packed day. This is a selfie I took at the end of it -- the actual headshots were glam and weird and gothicky and very on brand for me. I'll get them in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, filterless selfie

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Getting professional author photos taken this week. The photographer wanted to see how some of my outfits fall on me so Mr. Holly took some photos. Forgive how tired I look. It was after work on a Friday. I needed sleep. And yes, I want EF/Spuffy repped as well, so I have those outfits planned.

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Honestly, this feels like a "duh" moment but sometimes you need the obvious spelled out for you. Of course I'm doing E2L villain romance. OF COURSE I AM. Give me the choice and I'll write Spuffy forever in one form or another.

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Day 4 of no response from #SirenBookStrand about the 100% claim they submitted in the Anthropic settlement for this title. A book that was scraped a good 7 years after the rights were reverted. My experience with them as an author was about as high quality as this fugly ass book cover.

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Running the socials for a Spuffy exclusive archive is interesting. I can almost always predict when a post is going to generate a free block list. And by platform. Like I knew today's would be a big block day on Facebook and lordy, how right I am.

Siren Bookstrand is claiming a title they haven't had a legal right to in 11 years. I replied with my rights reversion confirmation and have contacted the publisher to see if they will cooperate. This is entirely on brand with my experience with Siren, and one of the reasons I took the book back.

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 2mo ago

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2mo ago

FINALLY: If anyone gets a response from a publisher that is something along the lines of "yeah, we just asserted ownership for all titles that had our name listed as publisher regardless of reversion status" PLEASE send that information to me or @victoriastrauss.com.