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The Business Rusch: The Year of The Bookstore

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , American Booksellers Association, Christian Science Monitor, Digital Book World, GalleyCat, independent bookstores, James Patterson, Kiss the Girls, Kobo, Mike Shatzkin, North By Northwest Books, Powell's, Publishers Weekly, publishing, Read Kiddo Read, Sourcebooks, the New York Times, the publishing industry, traditional publishing | 44 Comments »

A week ago Sunday, one of our local booksellers, Sheldon McArthur of North by Northwest Books, tossed me the April 22, 2013 Publishers Weekly. The issue has a good review of my upcoming Kris DeLake novel, A Spy To Die For, but it turns out that wasn’t why Sheldon gave me the PW. He gave [...]

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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 “Brutal” 2000-Word Day

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, featured, free nonfiction, On Writing , Association of Authors' Representatives, Bob Mayer, David Gaughran, Dean Koontz, Dean Wesley Smith, Department of Justice, Digital Book World, gold records, Joe Konrath, Julie Bosman, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Nora Roberts, Publishers Weekly, ratings, Simon Lipskar, Stephen King, television, The Business Rusch, the music industry, the New York Times, The Passive Voice, Writers House | 92 Comments »

The Business Rusch: The “Brutal” 2000-Word Day Kristine Kathryn Rusch I know, I know. I didn’t do a long blog last week because of the hack-attack, now fixed, and I heard from a lot of you wondering what the “missing” post would have been about. Many of you speculated that I would take on Simon [...]

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