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The Business Rusch: Hiring Editors

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Agents, copyeditors, editors, indie publishing, line editors, Lucky Bat Books, menu services, proofreaders, self publishing, traditional publishing | 56 Comments »

Writers believe that all editors are created equal. They also seem to believe that all editors are gods. Greek or Roman gods, gods of myth, gods who are spectacular one day and horrible the next. Not Coyote, necessarily, but Athena one day and Ares a day later. One day brilliant, the next trying to start [...]

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The Business Rusch: Year-End Numbers

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Amazon, indie publishing, Lucky Bat Books, publishing seasons, traditional publishing, writing | 78 Comments »

Caught you, didn’t I? You’ve been looking at your numbers again. You’ve been reading those doom-and-gloom articles about the fact that online sales are down for indie writers. You’ve read those silly year-end blogs by people who have not a clue about how business works who predict that Amazon with either shut down its Kindle [...]

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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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