{{short description|American novelist}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | image = | name = Emma Holly | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = New Jersey, United States | death_date = June 11, 2022 | occupation = Novelist | nationality = American | period = 1998–2022 | genre = Erotica, Romance, Paranormal | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | website = {{URL|http://www.mninter.net/~emmah}} }}
'''Emma Holly''' (1961 - 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emma Holly Book & Series List - FictionDB |url=https://www.fictiondb.com/author/emma-holly~8620.htm |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=www.fictiondb.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Grinnan |first=Dabney |date=2022-06-19 |title=Celebrating Emma Holly |url=https://allaboutromance.com/celebrating-emma-holly/ |access-date=2025-10-15 |website=All About Romance |language=en-US}}</ref> was an American author<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r5JIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YAkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2651,3345615&dq=emma+holly&hl=en|title=Vampire ultimate bad boy|last=Rosenblum|first=Gail|date=November 25, 2008|work=The Post and Courier|page=1D|accessdate=1 August 2012|archive-date=5 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405160609/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r5JIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YAkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2651,3345615&dq=emma+holly&hl=en|url-status=dead}}</ref> who specialized in writing erotic romance novels, often with a focus on BDSM. She wrote over seventy books and was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2004 RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance.
==Biography== Emma Holly was born in New Jersey and raised in Baltimore, where she lived with her older sister Laurie.
Leading back to her pre-adolescent fantasy, to be the fiancée of Batman, Holly always wanted to be a writer. After 10 years of writing, she sold her first book in 1998.
Holly specialized in writing erotica-romance and often with a focus on BDSM. Another common element of Holly's erotic style was a bisexual male protagonist. She has written over twenty books and was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America 2004 RITA award for Best Paranormal Romance.
==Bibliography==
===Single erotica-romance novels=== * ''Ménage'', 1998 * ''Cooking Up a Storm'', 1998 * ''Velvet Glove'', 1999 * ''In the Flesh'', 2000 * ''Strange Attractions'', 2004 * ''Personal Assets'', 2004 * ''All U Can Eat'', 2006 * ''Fairyville'', 2007, 2008 (with epilogue, previously published as Amazon short, ''And Then There Were Four'').
===Beyond Desire series===
#''Beyond Innocence'', 2001 also in '''Beyond Desire''' #''Beyond Seduction'', 2002 also in '''Beyond Desire'''
===Midnight Desire series=== {| class="wikitable" !# !Title !Also In !Publication Date |- |0.5 |''Luisa's Desire'' |'''Fantasy'''
'''Midnight Desire''' |2002 2006 |- |1 |''Catching Midnight'' |'''Midnight Desire''' |2003 |- |2 |''Hunting Midnight'' | |2003 |- |2.5 |''The Night Owl'' |'''Hot Blooded''' |2004 |- |3 |''Courting Midnight'' | |2005 |- |4 |''Kissing Midnight'' | |2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5547594-kissing-midnight?from_search=true|title=Kissing Midnight|last=|first=|date=October 9, 2019|website=Goodreads.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |- |5 |''Breaking Midnight'' | |2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5547593-breaking-midnight?ac=1&from_search=true|title=Breaking Midnight|last=|first=|date=October 9, 2019|website=Goodreads.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |- |6 |''Saving Midnight'' | |2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6057712-saving-midnight?ac=1&from_search=true|title=Saving Midnight|last=|first=|date=October 9, 2019|website=Goodreads.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |- |7 |''Devil at Midnight'' | |2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7955265-devil-at-midnight?ac=1&from_search=true|title=Devil at Midnight|last=|first=|date=October 9, 2019|website=goodreads.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |- |8 |''Angel at Dawn'' | |2011<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8105612-angel-at-dawn?ac=1&from_search=true|title=Angel at Dawn|last=|first=|date=October 9, 2019|website=goodreads.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> |}
===Demons series===
#''The Demon's Daughter'', 2004 #''The Demon's Angel'' in '''Demon's Delight''' #''The Countess' Pleasure'' in '''Hot Spell''' #''Prince of ice'', 2006 #''Demon's Fire'', 2008
=== Anthologies and collections === {| class="wikitable" !Anthology or Collection !Contents !Publication Date !Comments |- |'''Secrets Volume 4''' |''The Love Slave'' |1998 |with Helena Ravenscroft and Susie Raymond |- |'''Black Lace Omnibus IV''' |''The Top of her Game'' |1999 |with MaryJanice Davidson, Catherine Spangler and Vickie Taylor |- |'''Fantasy''' |''Luisa's Desire'' |2002 |with Christine Feehan, Sabrina Jeffries and Elda Minger |- |'''Hot Spell''' |''The Countess' Pleasure'' |2005 |with Meljean Brook, Lora Leigh and Shiloh Walker |- |'''Hot Blooded''' |''The Night Owl'' |2004 |with Christine Feehan, Angela Knight and Maggie Shayne |- |'''Beyond Desire''' |''Beyond Innocence''
''Beyond Seduction'' |2005 | |- |'''Midnight Desire''' |''Luisa's Desire'' ''Catching Midnight'' |2006 | |- |'''Demon's Delight''' |''The Demon's Angel'' |2007 |with MaryJanice Davidson, Catherine Spangler and Vickie Taylor |- |'''Beyond the Dark'''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Beyond the Dark|last=Holly|first=Emma|publisher=Berkley|year=2007|isbn=978-1-101-15793-0|location=Ottawa Public Library|pages=Contents}}</ref> |''Queen of All She Surveys'' |2007 |with Angela Knight, Lora Leigh and Diane Whiteside |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.emmaholly.com/ Emma Holly's Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219233215/http://www.emmaholly.com/ |date=2008-02-19 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071001044959/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/emma-holly/ Emma Holly] in FantasticFiction
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