Comments on: The Business Rusch: Lines in the Sand http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Wayne Borean http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11768 Wayne Borean Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:49:44 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11768 I know the problem. There are things I do not talk about to certain people, and never will.

Wayne

]]> By: Annette Reynolds http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11645 Annette Reynolds Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:52:25 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11645 Never! Keep up the good – um – everything.

]]> By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11635 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:10:45 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11635 KS, thank you so much for this post. Of course readers can comment here. Readers are the folks we write for. And it’s soooo good to hear your perspective, particularly from overseas, where many of our English language books haven’t reached until recently. It’s possible to reach as many readers as possible now, and I think it important for us writers to do so if we can. And I love that comparison to the Lilutians. Thank you. :-)

]]> By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11634 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:08:03 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11634 You’re welcome, Annette. So long as I’m not the anchor that holds writers back, I’m happy. :-)

]]> By: Annette Reynolds http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11624 Annette Reynolds Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:31:31 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11624 I was traditionally published once. I’m about to embark on my indie publishing career. No matter what, it’s ALL scary, exhilarating, confusing. Thank you, Kristine, for being an anchor writers can tether themselves to.

]]> By: K. S. (Freeshadow) http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11520 K. S. (Freeshadow) Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:26:44 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11520 1st things first: I’m no writer, just a reader. So maybe I shouldn’t even reply here ;) but I do so because I wanted to thank you for condensing so much sanity into a single blog post.
Having said that: I found one of my favourite SF books as en ebook publication. Am I happy about that? Yeah. It was a great read worth standing next to my Asimov’s. The book in question has due to it’s success found it’s way into paper publishing. Am I sad about that? No why. This way it ‘ll reach people who still/yet/whyever are not comfortable with a digital reader. Giving them a good time and more money to the author. Everyone wins here.
I discovered at least 3 long ago started and paper-published series by established authors due to freebie ebook recommendation. Wouldn’t have risked to buy them blindly because of the (IMHO far too narrow) subgenre branding. Some of these weren’t even translated to neither my maternal language nor the language of the country I currently live in. I have them in English now and would never have considered to import them in paper, because of the additional cost, just to try a new author. Again: A new fan and forthcoming buyer won by new paths. Instead of getting frantic about how to publish authors should better keep their main concern focused on WHAT and kick it out every way opening to them – because at the end of EVERY distribution channel there are potential readers-to-be. Pouring oil into flame wars about which is the Right! WAY to publish is as stupid as the Liliputanian war about how to crack ones breakfast egg properly. In both cases the answer is: All which get the content into the consumer.

Thanks for your patience, along with my sincere apologies should I have failed expected linguistic standards of this place: English is tertiary language for me.

]]> By: Stephen Douglas Lewis http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11193 Stephen Douglas Lewis Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:53:14 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11193 Naw, Rob. It’s more of rash. You get used to it, though. =)

]]> By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11190 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:36:35 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11190 Me either, Thomas. I have a business. I do what’s best for the business. What’s best for the business is finding readers, however I can. [shrug] Anything else makes little sense to me.

Thanks for the post.

]]> By: thomas e http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11187 thomas e Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:42:55 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11187 I prefer just the term ‘writer’ myself. How these distinctions work for someone like myself Idon’t know. I publish my short fiction myself, but I also send it to traditional markets. I have a novel up I published myself because it was not mainstream enough to be worth going to traditional markets, but I expect I will submit a novel to traditional markets. I make money using a web site where I give away content for free, but get money from adverts.

In short I write each project then sell it in the way I think will make the most money for that project.

I don’t understand why anyone would commit to only one way of selling their work.

]]> By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch http://kriswrites.com/2012/06/20/the-business-rusch-lines-in-the-sand/comment-page-2/#comment-11183 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:59:49 +0000 http://kriswrites.com/?p=8493#comment-11183 LOL, Rob. Be careful. Cream sometimes has side effects. :-)

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