Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Archive
The Business Rusch: The Writer’s Guide To Evaluating A Traditional Publishing Company
The Business Rusch: The Writer’s Guide To Evaluating A Traditional Publishing Company Kristine Kathryn Rusch About once a week, I get an e-mail from someone asking me to recommend a traditional publisher for them. I can’t, not because I don’t believe in traditional publishing, but because I have no idea what that person wants in a publisher, what that person is currently writing, and what’s going on within all the different traditional publishing houses. That ain’t my job. My job is to manage my own career, and to know the things relevant to the writer that I am. Nothing more. I also get letters asking me about my experiences with the various traditional publishers. Sometimes I can answer those letters. Sometimes I can’t, usually because my experiences are more than two years old, and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing
Recommended Reading List: September 2011
I got back to reading in September, but bumped along on my choices. I had trouble concentrating in the first part of the month, since so much was going on in my life. I read a celebrity memoir and enjoyed it, but don’t feel it was good enough to recommend. Then I read two other series novels, neither of which were the best of the series (and one probably put me off that series for good because of an incest scene with the hero & his sister (!)), and a couple of romance novels that were so unmemorable that I couldn’t remember the character names or plot when I went back to the book every evening. I think the only reason I kept reading was inertia, which really isn’t like … Read entire article »
Filed under: featured, On Writing, Recommended Reading
Pandora’s Box: A New Spade/Paladin Story
Spade and Paladin are back for another adventure at a science fiction convention. This time, they run into a dangerous situation that no convention wants, and they need to solve it on the fly. Yes, it’s a mystery, but you sf fans will like it as well. You can find the magazine on newsstands or you can download it on your favorite e-reader. Or you can order it from the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website. Enjoy! Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current News, featured
Physical Therapy
I have a new short story in a beautiful anthology out of Ireland, Box of Delights, edited by John Kenny. Here’s the cover. The anthology has stories by some marvelous authors, including Mike Resnick and Steve Rasnic Tem. I can’t wait to read it. You can find ordering information here. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current News, featured
The Business Rusch: How Traditional Publishers Are Making Money
The Business Rusch: How Traditional Publishers Are Making Money Kristine Kathryn Rusch Of course, this past week has been just as busy in publishing as the last several weeks. The changes are amazing, especially considering how stable the industry used to be. Third quarter earnings have come in, and the publicly traded publishing companies must report them. (Or, at least, their parent companies must.) For those of you who blithely predict that traditional publishers will go away, I suggest you click on over to the links below and look, actually look, at those earning statements. For the rest of you, here are the headlines: Pearson, which bills itself as “the world’s largest learning company,” reported increased sales (6%) and operating profit (13%) in the first 9 months of 2011. But the interesting part of its … Read entire article »
Filed under: Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, On Writing
Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Extremes
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 nine novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted Extremes, which is a Retrieval Artist novel. You don’t have to have read any of the other novels in the series to enjoy this one. You’ll find ordering information at the end of this post. Here’s the back cover copy, followed by the excerpt and the ordering information: Booklist calls Extremes “an exemplary futuristic detective thriller.” RT Book Reviews says, “This futuristic tale breaks new ground as a space … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Excerpt, featured, free fiction
