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Songbirds, a new magazine, and a column
I’m finishing my third huge project in as many weeks (with the time out for the aborted trip to LA) and have lost track of posting on my website. As a result I’m a bit behind. So here are two things for your enjoyment. First, a new Notes From the Buffer Zone column on the Grantville Gazette website about the changing times for readers and writers. You can find that here. Then I’m lucky enough to have the cover story in a new magazine out of England called Spectra. It launches as an e-magazine this week, so you should be able to get it anywhere, electronically of course. Here’s the lovely cover, based on my story, “Songbirds.” You can download a free sample of the story here. So…enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current News, free fiction, free nonfiction
Why I Am Not in LA
Right now, I should be in Los Angeles for the Writers of the Future event. As of yesterday, I was still scheduled to be there. Yesterday morning, Dean and I were in Red Bluff, California. We’d spent the night there, and planned to drive the rest of the way. Dean’s body and the 105 degree heat–at 11 a.m.–changed that. Dean’s had problems with heat sensitivity as long as I’ve known him, and he’s had heat stroke several times, the last in 2008. Until this trip. I had hoped to avoid it by avoiding the airlines and long sits on the tarmac in badly air-conditioned planes, a slow drive down to LA in a well air-conditioned car, and then a stay in LA in a lovely air-conditioned hotel. But the extreme heat proved … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Fighting The Last War
The Business Rusch: Fighting The Last War Kristine Kathryn Rusch Military historians have a saying: Generals usually fight the last war. What this means is simple: the generals running a new war make plans based on the previous war. The concept actually makes sense. Generals usually had a lower rank in the previous war. They watched comrades die senselessly due to mistakes that should never have been made in the first place, and the generals vow to never make the same mistake as the leaders of the last war. The problem is that as the generals are looking backwards, furiously defending themselves and their soldiers against the mistakes of the past, the new war goes on around them. The new war has its own priorities, its own set of problems, and its own … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business Rusch, Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing
Negotiating Digital Rights
Michael A Stackpole has a great post on the terms writers should insist on in their contracts. He writes about it better than I would, so head on over there and read this post now. http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=1626 Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
Filed under: On Writing
The Business Rusch: Creative Destruction
The Business Rusch: Creative Destruction Kristine Kathryn Rusch Here it is: the Business Blog which, thanks to Marina Nelson, is called “The Business Rusch.” I like the title for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve had to live with the puns people make from my last name since I was a kid. I was in high school in the 1970s when the slang phrase, “What a rush!” was in vogue. You can imagine how often I heard that, and not always in an admiring tone. In some ways, my last name is appropriate. All my life, I’ve been in a hurry. No one has ever called me patient, not even by mistake. Once I’ve learned something, I’m ready to move on—even if no one else in the room understands it. Once I … Read entire article »
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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Great Experiment
Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Great Experiment Kristine Kathryn Rusch “This post marks the beginning of an experiment.” That’s how I started the Freelancer’s Survival Guide, back in April of 2009. The experiment was mine; I had no idea how well writing a book chapter by chapter on my website would work—or if it would work at all. As I mentioned a few times, my friend Michael J. Totten has made a good living from his blog. But Michael travels to the Middle East and reports from there, doing the kind of journalism most media outlets can’t afford to do any longer. His readers appreciate what he’s doing and fund his travels, so that they can get the news they crave from a part of the world still undercovered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing
