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Recommended Reading List, June, 2010
June was the longest short month in existence. Each day felt like it was two days long. I have no idea why. We traveled in June. Dean taught. I did a lot of work. And I read. And read. And read. So it was a good month. In fact, it was a spectacular month, considering how much of what I read I enjoyed. This is a long list and I got a bit picky. If I had a few reservations about a book, I didn’t recommend it. An abundance of riches for once. So far, however, July is starting slow… Anyway, enjoy! June, 2010 Balogh, Mary, A Secret Affair, Delacorte, 2010. This is the book I was waiting for in the Huxtable series. It featured the most interesting of the … Read entire article »
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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Benefits of Freelancing
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Benefits of Freelancing Kristine Kathryn Rusch Several years ago, my career hit a serious downtown, the kind most careers never recover from. I made a series of bad business decisions, including hiring two terrible employees who did everything they could to gut my business. I compounded the initial mistakes by making more mistakes. On top of that, my health collapsed. I was ill twenty days out of every month, incapacitated for at least ten of those days. In the middle of all of that, I hit my mid-life crisis. Don’t let anyone tell you a mid-life crisis only hits men. It hits women too. During those dark days, I kept threatening to give up the writing. Now, you have to understand what this … Read entire article »
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Two new e-book collections
Because I was teaching last week and madly finishing up a novel (which I’m still working on), I got behind in posting the new electronic stories. WMG Publishing is reprinting my entire backlist of short stories in electronic editions, and WMG’s imprint, Five Story Publishing, is publishing groups of those stories by theme in collections. The collections are economical, cheaper than buying the stories individually. The blurb about the collection lists story titles, so you can make sure you’re not getting the same story twice. I’m only going to post the most recent collections here. I haven’t yet notified you of about ten short stories, so poke around your favorite e-book site. You’ll find other things by me. Also, remember that Smashwords has e-books in … Read entire article »
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Hitler’s Angel in the United States
Due to some publishing weirdness that no one can adequately explain to me, Hitler’s Angel won’t be available in the United States until January of 2011. Except at one bookstore. The exception came because I live near that bookstore. North by Northwest Books has copies for sale and they are signed. The bookstore will ship anywhere in the United States. You can contact them here: North by Northwest Books Sheldon McArthur, proprietor Streetcar Village 6334 S. Hwy 101 #9 Lincoln City, OR 97367 541-994-3087 mcarthurca@earthlink.net You can also order the book through British bookstores. Bookbrain.co.uk has a handy list of the stores that have the book in stock. Hitler’s Angel has been getting stellar reviews in England. Crime Time has a thoughtful full page review. The Daily Mail called it “a little gem of a thriller. Startling and wonderfully … Read entire article »
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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Benefits of Hindsight
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Benefits of Hindsight Kristine Kathryn Rusch I don’t know if we get wiser as we get older, but we certainly gain a lot more experience. The experience comes in handy, if we chose to use it. And sometimes that experience is just there, a part of our personal history and nothing more. I had a discussion with someone this recently about hindsight. We both discussed our fathers, both of whom discouraged us from our first marriages. The person I was talking to is going through a divorce right now. I went through mine 24 years ago. We both agreed, in the course of our conversation, that our fathers had been right. We also agreed that if we had looked at those relationships now—from the … Read entire article »
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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Incorporation
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Incorporation Kristine Kathryn Rusch I spent most of this evening putting another Freelancer’s Survival Guide Short Book together. The first short book, When To Quit Your Day Job, is available now in an electronic edition. It’ll be on all the sites eventually, but right now, you can get it on Smashwords (in any e-format). What I’m doing as I put these short books together is setting up the sections for the final Freelancer’s Guide—all 150,000 words of it. Those of you who have donated will get the big book (unless you e-mail me with requests for the shorter books as well), and that should come to you sometime this fall. Things are coming together, which feels quite good. Because I’m organizing, I’m also going over my … Read entire article »
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