Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Recommended Reading List: April, 2013

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Again, I did a lot of Fiction River reading this month, and you will see the results over the next year. The first volume of Fiction River, Unnatural Worlds, appeared on April 23, and please consider the stories in there as part of this recommended reading list. I’m not going to tell you my favorite [...]

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The Business Rusch: Book As Event

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 38 Comments »

I finished my second novel (as an adult) on the day my best friend from high school gave birth to her second child. My friend called me from the hospital to tell me the great news and then, because she was a sweet woman and because she was from the upper Midwest, she reflexively asked [...]

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The Business Rusch: The Bad Book

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 59 Comments »

This week, I finished reading a bad book by one of my favorite authors. Well, “finished reading” isn’t accurate. “Paged through the last half” is probably better. The book was astoundingly bad. The author decided to go 50 Shades of Grey on me when she’d never written more than a fade-to-black sex scene before. But [...]

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