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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Thoroughly Kissed
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 of 2011. 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 fourteen novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted Thoroughly Kissed, which I wrote as Kristine Grayson. Sourcebooks will release Thoroughly Kissed in June. The storyline follows Utterly Charming, which I excerpted a few months ago. You don’t have to read Utterly Charming to enjoy Thoroughly Kissed. The Grayson novels are marketed as romance, but in truth, they’re light fantasy. This book is a reissue. It was first published in 2001, and was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: A Short Post
The Business Rusch: A Short Post Kristine Kathryn Rusch As most of you know, my website got hacked last week. In fact, all of my websites–and I have a few–got hacked. So I’ve been busy, even though I don’t have a lot to show for it. Dean and I hired a website security firm to clean up the mess, and to clean up our other sites. The firm will also monitor the website every four hours to make sure it doesn’t get hacked again. We have hired a second security firm to do the same thing, figuring redundancy is our best option. As of this writing, the warnings are still up that this is a dangerous website. The security firm assures me that the websites are safe. Ye Olde Website Guru has also … Read entire article »
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Hacked Plus Free Fiction News
For those of you showing up for Free Fiction Monday, I’m sorry to say there’s nothing new today. My website got hacked on Thursday. It was a particularly virulent attack, which made the site receive warnings from all kinds of places. If you clicked through those warnings, run your anti-virus software to make sure you didn’t get any nasty stuff on your own computer. I’m still not sure if the hack was deliberate, meaning targeted at me. I’m waiting for the security firm’s report. I’m not sure if they’ll know. I’ve been the subject of several attacks this year, including a denial-of-service attack which came after a similar post to the royalty one I put up on Thursday, so I’m still not ruling out an intentional hack. But this attack did … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Royalty Statement Update 2012
The Business Rusch: Royalty Statement Update 2012 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about the fact that my e-book royalties from a couple of my traditional publishers looked wrong. Significantly wrong. After I posted that blog, dozens of writers contacted me with similar information. More disturbingly, some of these writers had evidence that their paper book royalties were also significantly wrong. Writers contacted their writers’ organizations. Agents got the news. Everyone in the industry, it seemed, read those blogs, and many of the writers/agents/organizations vowed to do something. And some of them did. I hoped to do an update within a few weeks after the initial post. I thought my update would come no later than summer of 2011. I had no idea the update would take a year, … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: One Phone Call From Our Knees
The Business Rusch: One Phone Call From Our Knees Kristine Kathryn Rusch In 2009, Mat Kearney came out with a song called Closer to Love, which is, apparently, a favorite of the DJs on the station I listen to. It still plays in rather heavy rotation for an older song, and I hear it at least once a week. The song isn’t one of my favorites, but it has a line that stops me every time I hear it, because it’s so true. We are, as Kearney states, just a phone call from our knees. Dean and I have had those calls throughout our lives together—when my father died, when Dean’s stepfather died. The calls that just take your every day life and turn it into a completely new life, one that changes things … Read entire article »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Alien Influences
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 of 2011. 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 thirteen novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted Alien Influences, which is a stand-alone science fiction novel. It had a strange publishing history, getting great reviews and acclaim in Great Britain only to get caught in a publishing dispute in the United States. It got published with no fanfare here, and in fact had one of the worst covers I’d ever seen. The new cover, below, is one I like quite a bit. You’ll … Read entire article »
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