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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: Anti-Published

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , Barry Eisler, Barry Switzer, Ben Wolverton, Book Bomb, Carole Nelson Douglas, Charles Stross, David Farland, David Gaughran, Dean Wesley Smith, Downton Abbey, Elizabeth Naughton, Ella Distribution, Fiction River, Forbes, Hugh Howey, JA Konrath, Jeremy Greenfield, Lawrence Block, Linda Nagata, New York Times, newspapers, Night Shade Books, Phillip Rock, publishing, Pulphouse, Romantic Times, Salon, Scott Turow, Techdirt, The Business Rusch, The Passive Voice, traditional publishing, writing | 35 Comments »

I didn’t read my five newspapers this morning. I’m cranky about that. I love my newspapers. I read them on my iPad, and don’t mind the advertising at all, even though I accidentally click on the ads once in a while. (And please, don’t tell anyone: Occasionally, I investigate the product.) Which is way more [...]

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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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