Works

St Rage

A novel by Holley Irvine

A plunge through thin ice sends Violet Tanglewood into a darkly comic otherworld as she battles both a mocking apparition and an unhinged ex to reclaim her life and body.

Genre: Speculative fiction
Length: 82,000 words
Status: Seeking representation / actively querying

Hell Springs Eternal

A novel by Holley Irvine

A sparkling tourist lake suddenly brims with rotting coffins, dragging onetime pariah Rosaline Mornick back to her childhood hometown to confront comic dysfunction and unearth a ghastly secret that’s been hiding in plain sight for decades.

Genre: Women’s fiction
Status: Nearly complete

Breathless Sands

A novel by Holley Irvine

Zinnia Wister’s life sounds like a sad country song: dead-end job slinging drinks, trailer crushed by a tree, forced to give up her dog, fiancé ran off with movie star, chased by a shadowy cabal intent on dissecting her very soul into bottles to peddle to billionaire clients… wait, back up a minute.

Genre: Speculative fiction
Status: Nearly complete

Comic strip

Ozone Patrol set the Boulder, Colorado, humor zeitgeist for a decade, running in the Colorado Daily from the late ’80s to early ’90s. The feature led to an option deal with United Feature Syndicate.

“Vivid and often searingly funny.”
-Claire Martin, The Denver Post

Ozone Patrol

Café Angst

Comic strip

Appearing in The Denver Post from 1995-1997, Cafe Angst followed a coffeehouse crew navigating fresh adulthood, offbeat customers and the occasional wayward bears.

Co-created with Hans Bjordahl

Website, Book, Series

Starting with an idea, a website, some initial reviews, and Holley’s iconic logo design, Mr. Cranky exploded across the internet and beyond to reach the pages of Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Wired, and the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye. The world’s most infamous movie critic also spawned a book, an animated series, and an annual “Cranky Con.”

Co-created with Jason Katzman and Hans Bjordahl

Mr. Cranky