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The Business Rusch: Writing Like It’s 2009

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Agents, Allyson Longueira, Amanda Hocking, Amazon, Bill Bryson, British Science Fiction Association, Dean Wesley Smith, Digital Book World, ebooks, Focus, indie publishing, Joe Konrath, Kindle, Lucky Bat Books, Scott William Carter, Simon & Schuster, The New York Times Book Review, traditional publishing, WMG Publishing | 129 Comments »

Probably the most popular blog post I’ve written in the Business Rusch series appeared in May, 2011. Geared toward traditionally published writers and new writers coming in, “Writing Like It’s 1999” explains how the many truths of publishing from the last century are no longer truths, but myths. The post gets reprinted often. It’s part [...]

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The Business Rusch: The Changing Definition of Publishing

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amanda Hocking, Amazon, American Journalism Review, Apple, Boyd Morrison, Clay Shirky, David Wood, Dean Wesley Smith, Digital Book World, Findings blog, Hollywood, Huffington Post, indie publishing, iPad, John Grisham, Kindle, Kobo, legal thrillers, Little Brown UK, Mary Barton, New York University, Penguin, Presumed Innocent, Publishers Marketplace, Publishers Weekly, Pulitzer Prize, Rem Reider, Richard Alan Dickson, Scott Turow, Simon & Schuster, St Martins Press, Steve Berry, The Art of Fielding, The Firm, traditional publishing, Vanity Fair | 85 Comments »

The Business Rusch: The Changing Definition of Publishing Kristine Kathryn Rusch This week, the announcements for the Pulitzer Prize shocked the publishing world because, for some reason, the Pulitzer board declined to chose a winner from the three fiction nominees. Lost in the controversy (besides the hurt feelings of the fiction nominees and the fact [...]

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The Business Rusch: Quality

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amanda Hocking, Amazon, artists, Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Barnes & Noble, Bookfinder.com, Bowker, copy editors, editors, graphic designers, Hugo Award, Ian and Betty Ballantine, India, ISBN, Judy-Lynn Del Rey, London School of Economics, Lucky Bat Books, promotion, proofers, Publishers Marketplace, Pulphouse Publishing, Quality, quantity, Robert Crais, St Martins Press, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, United Kingdom, United States, Wikipedia, World Fantasy Award | 82 Comments »

The Business Rusch: Quality Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, I finally figured out how to describe the changes going on in the publishing industry. My post, “Scarcity and Abundance,” went viral. If you haven’t read it, please do so, just so that I don’t have to redefine my terms again. As usual with a viral post, [...]

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