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The Business Rusch: Deal Breakers
The Business Rusch: Deal Breakers Kristine Kathryn Rusch For the bulk of my thirty-year career in publishing, the industry has remained the same. In fact, the industry hadn’t changed much since the end of the Second World War. Oh, there were changes—the rise of mass market paperbacks, the decline of the slick magazines, the introduction of computerized ordering—but those things happened slowly and usually one at a time. In the past two years, the changes have come so quickly that it seems like we’re on the Starship Enterprise, heading into a new galaxy at warp speed. You know that little wink of light when the starship goes into warp? That little dot was publishing in 2009. We’ve been at warp speed for two-plus years now, and unfortunately, our navigation systems don’t work … Read entire article »
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Utterly Charming Cover
It’s cover week here on my blog. The final cover for my upcoming Kristine Grayson romance, Utterly Charming, came in today. This is a Sourcebooks reissue of my first Grayson novel, which won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance. The book comes out in October, but you can preorder now if you’re so inclined. … Read entire article »
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The Long-Awaited New Retrieval Artist Novel!
Anniversary Day, the next Retrieval Artist novel, will appear later this year. Note I’m not giving you an exact date, and that’s on purpose. Audible.com will have a two-month exclusive on the book. It’ll appear in audio form only around the end of September/first of October. Then, in December, you’ll be able to buy the e-book and trade paper. Here’s the wonderful cover, done by the marvelous Jonathan Kort. Ordering information and more on the book itself will follow in a few weeks. (And yes, the cover echoes Consequences for a reason….) … Read entire article »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: The Death of Davy Moss
Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book. I began this practice in February. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site. If you want to read the opening to the previous five novels, click here. This month, I’ve decided to excerpt The Death of Davy Moss. I’ve always thought of The Death of Davy Moss as a contemporary romance novel, but my husband–who is so much better at genre labels than I am–believes that Davy Moss is women’s fiction–only for men. Which, I think, makes it just a novel, rather than a novel in a genre. As you can tell from that description, Davy Moss … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Slush Pile Truths
The Business Rusch: Slush Pile Truths Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every week, people send me links to various publishing articles/blogs I might not have seen. I cherish those links. I don’t see everything, and when I’m under severe deadline, like I have been since March, I have no time to ferret out information unrelated to the current project. But last week, at least twenty people (maybe more if you count folks on Facebook) sent me the link to Eric Felten’s ridiculous Wall Street Journal blog titled “Cherish the Book Publishers—You’ll Miss Them When They’re Gone.” Why am I calling Felten’s piece ridiculous? Aside from the fact that he says the same thing writers from places like NPR to The Daily Beast have been saying for two years, he shows no understanding of the book … Read entire article »
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