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Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Business Rusch: Book As Event

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in Business Rusch, free nonfiction, On Writing , A. Scott Berg, Berkeley, Beth Meacham, Bobby Orr, Carole Nelson Douglas, Catherine Coulter, Clive Cussler, Courtney Milan, Dean Wesley Smith, Dick Francis, ebooks, Fiction River, GP Putnam, indie publishing, Jane Kennedy, JD Robb, Kevin J. Anderson, Kris Nelscott, Marie Force, Nora Roberts, Penguin Group, Publishers Weekly, Randy Wayne White, Robert Parker, self publishing, Smokey Dalton, St Martins Press, Sue Grafton, Tina Fey, Tor Books, traditional publishing, WMG Publishing, workshops | 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: 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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