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Free Fiction Monday: Murder, She Workshopped

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You know that famous mystery writer? The one whom death stalks wherever she goes? Turns out bad luck doesn’t cause death to follow her. She provokes it all—for a reason. And this time, someone will stop her. A student at a writing workshop has a secret agenda. Yes, the student wants to become a bestseller. [...]

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The Business Rusch: The Logic Behind Self Publishing

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 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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