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Mary Holland

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Genre fiction, classic fantasy and science fiction

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Mary Holland is the author of Matcher Rules, The Bone Road, and The Dog of Pel. After managing a corporate research library in Silicon Valley for twenty-five years, mostly to support her fantasy and science-fiction habit, she now writes full-time.
She lives among the redwoods in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains with three cats and an assortment of wildlife. Find her online at www.mary-holland.com.
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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Mary Holland I have quite a few I'm very fond of, but one of my favorite couples is Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin in Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise series. O'…moreI have quite a few I'm very fond of, but one of my favorite couples is Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin in Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise series. O'Donnell wrote the series, which was published in the late 1960's and early 1970's, based on his cartoon strip of Modesty Blaise. Modesty and Willie's relationship is decades ahead of its time, being completely egalitarian. Modesty saves Willie and Willie saves Modesty from a variety of villains and evildoers, the books are a lot of fun, very well-written and highly recommended.(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Mary Holland I don't believe in writer's block. I do believe in writer's procrastination. There are days when I will clean toilets to avoid dealing with that awful…moreI don't believe in writer's block. I do believe in writer's procrastination. There are days when I will clean toilets to avoid dealing with that awful scene in my manuscript. Or do absolutely anything to avoid writing. But I'm unhappy when I don't write. The only way to make myself happy is to write and when the pain of denial beats the procrastination, I grit my teeth, sit at the computer and write.(less)

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Average rating: 4.0 · 110 ratings · 46 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bone Road 4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matcher Rules 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dog of Pel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Evacuation, Cats, and Fire, Pt. 2

For those of you who don’t know Palo Alto, it’s very white, upper middle-class, and wealthy. The Airbnb was not as advertised. Yes, it was 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, but it was an apartment, not a house, and both the plumber and the electrician should have lost their licenses. However, I will say the manager ... Read more Read more of this blog post »

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Mary Holland wrote a new blog post Evacuation, Cats, and Fire, Pt. 1 In theory, if I was a dedicated writer, I’d have been doing day-to-day posts on the experience of mandatory emergency evacuation, dragging the cats f Read more of this blog post »
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Mary Holland and 3 other people liked Barbara's review of The Revenants: "My favourite Tepper. I re-read it often. This is the story of a quest with magical objects and mythical beings. While it touches on many of the themes common to Tepper's work it does so more lightly than in her later works, which I think gets her poin" Read more of this review »
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Mary’s Quotes

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: architect, craft, gardener, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-craft, writing-process

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