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The Voodoo Project
I have a new science fiction story, “The Voodoo Project,” in the February Asimov’s. The issue itself is fantastic. I got an early copy and immediately read it cover to cover. You can find Asimov’s at your local newsstand, in all the e-bookstores, or you can order it on the website through this link. Enjoy! … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: Substitutions
Silas has worked for Death in Nevada for 150 years. He gets Christmas and Christmas Eve off. Only this year, his substitute finds him in a Las Vegas casino. His substitute, who is little more than a boy, a boy whose task terrifies him. If the boy finishes the task, he’ll have a permanent job. If he doesn’t, a dozen kids will live in agony. Silas hates the choice. He wants to tell the boy, That’s the job. Get used to it. But he can’t. Because it’s Christmas, and the boy is all alone… “Substitutions” by USA Today bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for 99 cents on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords and in other e-bookstores, or in these collections: Santa and Other Christmas Criminals, available for $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: The Halo Effect
The Business Rusch: The Halo Effect Kristine Kathryn Rusch In October, my novel Wickedly Charming had a one-week e-book promotion. The book was free to e-book buyers on the big sites (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore) for one week only. This promotion wasn’t my idea. Instead, my publisher Sourcebooks set up the promotion with the e-stores. I only found out about it because my short story e-book, The Charming Way, sold dozens of copies in one day. Before that, The Charming Way sold maybe a dozen copies in one month. WMG Publishing published The Charming Way, and all of the Grayson backlist that I control. (Kensington still won’t release the rights on two out-of-print books.) And because I’m working closely with WMG, I get to see their numbers in real time. I confess, I’m … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: Christopher’s Crummy Christmas
Eleven-year-old Christopher always spends Christmas alone. This year, he’s going to change that. This year, he’s going to make his parents stay home. Everyone tells him he’ll ruin Christmas, but he doesn’t care. He wants a good Christmas, and he’ll do anything to get it. A classic Christmas story that first appeared in Boy’s Life Magazine. “Christopher’s Crummy Christmas” by USA Today bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for 99 cents on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other e-bookstores. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. … Read entire article »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Anniversary Day
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. 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 ten novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted Anniversary Day, which is a Retrieval Artist novel. You don’t have to have read any of the other novels in the series to enjoy this one. You’ll find ordering information at the end of this post. Here’s the back cover copy, followed by the excerpt and the ordering information: Four years ago, a bomb destroyed part of the dome protecting Armstrong, the largest city on the Moon. Now, as the … Read entire article »
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The Business Rusch: Traditional Publishing and Its Suppliers
The Business Rusch: Traditional Publishing & Its Suppliers Kristine Kathryn Rusch My posts over the past few weeks have elicited quite a few comments, in person, in e-mail and in the comments section, that go like this: “How can traditional publishers treat writers like that? This is clearly a sign of a decaying business.” Naw. It’s a sign that writers still don’t understand how they fit in the traditional publishing model. In a post two weeks ago, I talked about the ways that writers’ books get mishandled. I mentioned the American publication of my novel Hitler’s Angel (for the full sad story, click here), and I mentioned several other missteps. Since I wrote that piece, I read an excellent article in the October 2011 issue of Vanity Fair by Keith Gessen, the founder of n … Read entire article »
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The Destroyer
Daw books just published my short story, “The Destroyer,” in Human For A Day, one of the last anthologies co-edited by Martin H. Greenberg. As usual, I had a marvelous time working with Marty, Jennifer, and Tekno. I’ll miss those interactions. That business has changed a great deal these days. But we’ll have the anthologies. And this one looks good, just from the table of contents. I hope you’ll find a copy somewhere and enjoy. Here’s one place to order a copy. I’m sure your local bookstore will have one as well. … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: The Last Christmas Letter
Joanne makes her home the perfect place for Christmas so her grandchildren will always remember the holiday. She puts her Christmas cards on the banister, but this year, she doesn’t want to add her father’s card. She’s not sure it’s from him. He’s been in a coma since Thanksgiving, yet the card came in mid-December. And the letter inside gets longer every time she looks at it. Her father always made up fantasy worlds, but now Joanne feels like she’s living inside one—and she wants to leave. “Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s eerie and slow-starting ‘The Last Christmas Letter’ decisively delivers the Twilight Zone’s trademark out-of-this-world wonder…exceptional, with vivid characters and some mind-bending narrative moments.” —Publishers Weekly “The Last Christmast Letter” by World Fantasy Award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for $2.99 on … Read entire article »
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