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Standing Up For Grace
Here’s a side story for those of you who read Wickedly Charming. Standing Up For Grace shows what really happened when Imperia and Grace went to their new school. If you haven’t yet read Wickedly Charming, you can still read Standing Up For Grace since the story does stand alone. Here’s the cover, the book’s description, and ordering information. Imperia Encanto, the oldest daughter of Prince Charming and Cinderella, can’t stop the girls at her exclusive private school from picking on her sister Grace. In her home Kingdom, Princess Imperia merely has to frown and everyone does her bidding. But in Beverly Hills, no one knows she’s a princess. No one believes fairy tales are real and Imperia’s not allowed to tell them. Too young to have magic, unable to charm like her father does, … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Odds, Ends, and More Slush Pile Truths
The Business Rusch: Odds, Ends, and More Slush Pile Truths Kristine Kathryn Rusch It’s amazing how much can change in a week. Since I wrote “Common Sense & The Writer” in an Idaho hotel room last Monday, this (and more!) has happened in the field: Indie e-book bestseller John Locke made a “distribution” deal with Simon & Schuster for the paper rights to his books; the Passive Guy hung out his shingle as an attorney for writers and in doing so, revealed his secret identity; and settlements have started in the case of the agent who died and left his estate to family members who had no idea how to run the business. In my personal life, I went to the World Science Fiction convention where I saw many old friends … Read entire article »
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Bill Trojan
I did not expect to make this post today, although I did expect it eventually. Bill Trojan has been a friend, colleague–and hell, those words are too small. Bill is family. Bill’s been family since before Dean and I started Pulphouse Publishing. Bill was one of the four of us who ran the company, the other being Debb (Cook) De Noux. Bill died on Sunday in his hotel room at Worldcon. He had had a great convention. For those of you who know Bill, you know how rare that is. He was a curmudgeon, to say the least, and the fact that he enjoyed this convention so much that he made a point of telling the organizers how wonderful it was is absolutely stunning. When I put news of his passing … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Common Sense And The Writer
The Business Rusch: Common Sense and the Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch A friend of mine runs a flat fee menu service that helps writers publish novels, short stories, and nonfiction books as e-books. Her service will also help writers publish print-on-demand books as well. By a flat-fee menu service, I mean this: If you prep an e-pub file and post to the e-book distributers yourself, but you can’t design a good cover to save your life, you can hire my friend’s company to design the cover for you. She’ll charge you a flat fee for that. I have no idea how much, since I’m not hiring my covers out. But let’s say—for the sake of argument—that she’s only charging $250 for a cover. (For all I know, that might be high. Or low. … Read entire article »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Sacrifice
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 six novels, click here. This month, I’m sharing Sacrifice with you. Sacrifice is the first book of my Fey series. The original Fey series has five novels. Then saga continues with The Black Throne series. And, for those of you who are going to ask, the saga will continue with The Place of Power Series in late 2013. That shouldn’t daunt you, however. The story of the first five books does wrap … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Comparisons
The Business Rusch: Comparisons Kristine Kathryn Rusch I have spent a lot of time with other writers in the past three months, and I have seen this scenario over and over and over again: Writers are talking about indie publishing e-books at a dinner or a lunch or over drinks. A newer writer, maybe one with little or no name recognition, mentions that his e-books are selling anywhere from one to ten per day on just one e-book site, like Kindle. Professional writers glare, cross their arms, or turn away. Some of the professionals will say later, bitterly, that they’re not putting much effort into the indie e-book market because “it doesn’t pay off for them” or because their readers “don’t buy e-books.” “The only writers who succeed,” one established writer of long-standing said … Read entire article »
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