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The Business Rusch: Shifting Sands

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , AAP, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Chattacon, Dean Wesley Smith, distributors, Ella Distribution, Ingrams, Publishers Marketplace, Statshot, traditional publishing, Winter Institute | 107 Comments »

I live on the beach. Here the sand shifts daily. We expect it. We watch it. The tide comes in; the tide goes out; the sand moves. But I grew up in the Midwest. The land is firm there, solid. When someone builds a road it remains a recognizable road. Frigid winters and hot summers [...]

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The Business Rusch: Four Years

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, Freelancer's Survival Guide, On Writing , Amazon, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Dow Jones, ebooks, Ella Distribution, Fiction River, free fiction, Freelancer's Survival Guide, freelancing, indie publishing, Michael J. Totten, publishing, recession, self publishing, Smashwords, WMG Publishing, Writers Digest, writing | 51 Comments »

On April 2, 2009, I began what I called an experiment. I decided to write an entire book, section by section, online every week. It took me 18 months of weekly posts to finish the book, which is called The Freelancer’s Survival Guide. By that point, I had thousands of weekly followers who came here [...]

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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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