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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself
I am in the process of adding some chapters to the Freelancer’s Guide, and updating a few others. This one has bothered me for nearly a year now, so I’m happy to redo it. Here’s the revised chapter that will go into the second edition of The Freelancer’s Survival Guide. Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself Kristine Kathryn Rusch Amazing the difference eighteen months make. I first wrote the posts entitled “Giving Up On Yourself (Parts One and Two)” in June of 2010. But as we head into 2012, I realize that some of what I wrote is out of date. I’ve revised this section and it will eventually go into the second edition of the Freelancer’s Survival Guide. The core information is the same but the outdated information is now gone. I initially … Read entire article »
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Roger, At Sunset
I have a new short story out in the wonderfully eclectic literary magazine, Rosebud. The story, “Roger, At Sunset,” was one of those amazing stories that arrived fully formed while I was researching something else. Wish that happened to me all the time. You can find Rosebud here. I’d also suggest reading editor Rod Clark’s marvelous Voice Over column every month. … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Free
The Business Rusch: Free Kristine Kathryn Rusch I just came across a terrible article on Galley Cat from the Media Bistro site. Galley Cat bills itself “The First Word on the Book Publishing Industry,” and Media Bistro, when it started years ago, was supposedly going to shed journalistic light on the publishing industry. Let us all pause while I chuckle darkly. I really should stop railing against the decline in journalistic standards. I really should, because all it does is give me heartburn. But I got my journalism training from a bunch of blue collar World War II reporters who believed in verifying sources, researching the material, and never ever trusting what someone said in an interview without doing a bit of investigation first. This Galley Cat article would’ve been tossed in any newsroom … Read entire article »
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Recommended Reading List: August 2011
I was well on my way to a spectacular reading month when I left to go to Worldcon in Reno. Still, managed to finish one book and start another. Then my friend Bill died. I didn’t even read a newspaper for days. So the pickings were slim in August, but they were good pickings, just the same. August, 2011 Chiarella, Tom, “What Is A Man: An Experiment,” Esquire, June/July, 2011. Esquire does essays like this on occasion, where the author (usually a guy) tries something socially unacceptable. Chiarella decided to drop the trappings of manhood—from things as trivial as holding a door for a woman to deeply personal behaviors which I’m not going to mention here. He did so partly as a thought experiment, partly to understand himself. I found … Read entire article »
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