Nancy Holder

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Personal life and education

Holder was born Nancy Lindsay Jones in Los Altos, California on August 29, 1953. Growing up in California and Japan, Nancy quit school at 16 to be a ballet dancer in Germany. Eventually returning to the U.S., she resumed her studies and graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Communications degree.

Holder is married to Wayne Holder, with whom she has a daughter, Belle Claire Christine Holder (born October 28, 1996).

Career

Holder is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in horror writing. She won Best Short Story in 1991 for "Lady Madonna", in 1993 for "I Hear the Mermaids Singing", and in 1994 for "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain". She won Best Novel in 1994 for Dead in the Water.

Other books by Nancy Holder (and Debbie Viguié) include the Wicked series, about a family feud between a coven of witches called the Cahors and a coven of warlocks called the Devereux.

Holder contributed to the design of Dungeon Master, developed and sold by her husband Wayne Holder's company FTL Games.[1] She has also begun collaborating with her daughter, Claire Holder, when published short stories.

Holder contributed the original story concept to the 2018 Firefly novel Big Damn Hero by James Lovegrove.

She occasionally teaches courses in writing and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the University of California, San Diego.

In 2014, Holder stepped into the position of Vice President of the Horror Writers Association.[2]

Awards

Awards for Holder's writing
Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
1991 "Lady Madonna" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won [3]
1993 "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won [4]
1994 "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won [5]
Dead in the Water Bram Stoker Award Novel Won [6]
Making Love Locus Award Horror Novel Nominated–9th [7]
1995 Dead in the Water Locus Award Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel Nominated–15th [7]
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Bram Stoker Award Work for Young Readers Template:CFinalist [7]
2000 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Immortal Listen Up Award Popular Culture Selected [8]
2005 Outsiders Bram Stoker Award Anthology Template:CFinalist [9]
2011 Script error: No such module "sort". Bram Stoker Award Young Adult Novel Won [10]
2016 Crimson Peak Scribe Awards Adapted Novel Template:CFinalist [11]
2019 — Faust Award — Won [12]
Firefly: Big Damn Hero Dragon Awards Media Tie-In Novel Template:CFinalist [13]
2020 Mary Shelley Presents Bram Stoker Award Graphic Novel Won [14]
2021 — Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Won [15]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Jessie's Song (1983) (writing as Nancy L. Jones)
  • Winner Take All (1984)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth (1984)
  • Finders Keepers (1985)
  • His Fair Lady (1985)
  • Out of This World (1985)
  • Once in Love with Amy (1986)
  • Emerald Fire (1986)
  • Rough Cut (1990)
  • The Ghosts of Tivoli (1992)
  • Cannibal Dwight's Special Purpose (1992)
  • Making Love (1993) (with Melanie Tem)
  • Dead in the Water (1994 Dell Publishing) – Template:ISBN
  • Witch-Light (1996) (with Melanie Tem)
  • Pearl Harbor, 1941 (2000)
  • Smallville: Hauntings (2003)
  • Spirited (2004)
  • Pretty Little Devils (2006)
  • Daughter of the Flames (2006)
  • Daughter of the Blood (2006)
  • The Rose Bride (2007)
  • On Fire, a Teen Wolf Novel (2012)
  • Crimson Peak (2015)[16]
  • Ghostbusters (2016 Tor Books) – Template:ISBN
  • Wonder Woman (2017 Titan Books) – Template:ISBN

Collections

  • Wings and Other Poems (1972)

Series

Gambler's Star

  • The Six Families (1998)
  • Legacies and Lies (1999)
  • Invasions (2000)

Wicked

  • Witch (2002) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Curse (2002) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Legacy (2003) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Spellbound (2003) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Resurrection (2009) (with Debbie Viguié)

RSVP

  • Camp Confidential (2005) (as Melissa J. Morgan)

Possessions

  • Possessions (2009)
  • The Evil Within (2010)[17]
  • The Screaming Season (Mar 2011)

Crusade

  • Crusade (2010) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Damned (2011) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Vanquished (2012) (with Debbie Viguié)

Wolf Springs Chronicles

  • Unleashed (2011) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Hot Blooded (July 9, 2012) (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Savage (2013) (with Debbie Viguié)

Buffyverse works

Novels

Short stories

She has also written short stories in:

Other short works

  • Tales of Zorro
  • The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire (with Debbie Viguié)
  • Furry Fantastic (with Belle Holder)
  • Pandora's Closet (with Belle Holder)

Anthologies

Anthology or Collection Contents Publication

Date

The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance[18] Vampire Unchained 2008
An Apple for a Creature[19] VSI Aug 2012

Non-fiction

  • Angel: the Casefiles, Volume 1 (with Jeff Mariotte and Maryelizabeth Hart) (1999)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Guide to the Buffyverse (2017)

Comics

Beginning in 2009 she has contributed a number of stories for the Domino Lady comics published by Moonstone Books.

See also

References

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