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The Business Rusch: The Logic Behind Self Publishing

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amazon, Barnes & Noble, book distribution. Ella Distribution, Carolyn Reidy, Charles Stross, Createspace, Doubleday, ebooks, Hugh Howey, Independent Publishers Group, Laura Miller, Lightning Source, MacMillan, publishing business, Salon, self publishing, Simon & Schuster, Simon Lipskar, St Martins Press, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, traditional publishing, Wired, Writers House | 53 Comments »

Every morning, I read two or three newspapers on my iPad. One of those papers, The Los Angeles Times, has continued to showcase an editorial about the “death” of the self-published author. (I refuse to link to this thing; look it up yourself if you’re curious.) Okay, the article’s not really the death of the [...]

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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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