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The Business Rusch: The Bad Book

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Barbara Mertz, Barbara Michaels, Charles Dickens, editing, Elizabeth Peters, Fiction River, indie publishing, John Grisham, John Helfers, Kerrie Hughes, Lisa Jackson, Nora Roberts, perfection, Recommended Reading, Stephen King, Tami Hoag, traditional publishing, workshops, writing | 59 Comments »

This week, I finished reading a bad book by one of my favorite authors. Well, “finished reading” isn’t accurate. “Paged through the last half” is probably better. The book was astoundingly bad. The author decided to go 50 Shades of Grey on me when she’d never written more than a fade-to-black sex scene before. But [...]

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The Business Rusch: More Distribution Changes

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amanda Palmer, Baker & Taylor, booksellers, bookstores, Distribution, Ella Distribution, Ingrams, Jaws, Kickstarter, Los Angeles Times, movies, Music, Rob Thomas, television, Veronica Mars, Warner Brothers, Washington Post | 28 Comments »

This morning, my iPad Los Angeles Times app informed me that the creators of the TV show Veronica Mars had started a Kickstarter project. They wanted two million dollars to jump-start a movie, using the original cast. I clicked the link to Kickstarter and donated. At the time, the movie hadn’t yet reached its goal. [...]

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The Business Rusch: Binge Reading

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Agatha Christie, Alexander Dumas, Andre Norton, Arrow, Downton Abbey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, HBO, Hollywood Radio and Television Society, House of Cards, Hydra, Ian Fleming, JD Robb, John Scalzi, Marie Force, Mary Balogh, NCIS, Netflix, Nielsen, Nora Roberts, Random House, Shanora Williams, Stephen King, Supernatural, television, television ratings, The LA Times, The New York Times Bestseller list, The USA Today bestseller list, the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, Victoria Holt | 31 Comments »

On a day when most of the publishing blogosphere is dealing with Random House’s horrible Hydra publishing line, I figured I’d talk about something else. First of all, if you haven’t heard about Hydra and what it wants to do to writers who know nothing about business, check out John Scalzi’s blog. In fact, check [...]

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