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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Wickedly Charming

May 14, 2011May 16, 2011Kristine Kathryn RuschLeave a Comment on Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Wickedly Charming

Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book.  I began this practice in February. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site.  If you want to read the […]

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Recent Free Nonfiction, An Interview, and Great Fiction Sampler

May 1, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch3 Comments on Recent Free Nonfiction, An Interview, and Great Fiction Sampler

I’m in deadline hell for the next several months, since I took on a project that crammed everything together.  Plus I’m teaching a lot, so I’m unusually busy, even for me. All of that goes a long way to telling you that I’m behind in letting you know the current news and links. My bimonthly […]

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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Simply Irresistible

April 15, 2011May 4, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch1 Comment on Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Simply Irresistible

Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book.  I began this practice in February. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site.  If you want to read the […]

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Wickedly Charming Excerpt

April 8, 2011April 9, 2011Kristine Kathryn RuschLeave a Comment on Wickedly Charming Excerpt

I just discovered that Sourcebooks is offering a free excerpt of my upcoming Kristine Grayson novel, Wickedly Charming.  You can find the first three chapters on CasaVIP Exclusive Content portion of the website.  Enjoy!

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Show Trial

March 19, 2011March 21, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch2 Comments on Show Trial

Back in September, I went to Germany for as the guest of honor for Elstercon in Leipzig.  I took time on that trip to visit Nuremberg for research on a book.  The book isn’t done; it’s still percolating.  But the first short story from that trip–a novella, actually–has just appeared. The story is called “Show […]

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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: The Disappeared

March 15, 2011November 18, 2012Kristine Kathryn Rusch8 Comments on Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: The Disappeared

    Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book.  I began this practice last month with Diving into the Wreck. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the […]

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The Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Diving Into the Wreck

February 15, 2011February 16, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch2 Comments on The Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Diving Into the Wreck

Once per month, I’ll post an excerpt from a published novel of mine and hope that you’ll be intrigued enough to find the rest of the book.  I decided to start with Diving into the Wreck because the next book set in that universe, City of Ruins, will be out in May. This will give […]

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Another Free Story And An Interview

December 14, 2010December 14, 2010Kristine Kathryn RuschLeave a Comment on Another Free Story And An Interview

My story, “The Observer,” is online this week at Lightspeed Magazine for free, along with an interview.  There’s also a podcast of the story.  So click on over there and read.  Lightspeed has a lot of great fiction.  You can download an e-version of the entire magazine here.

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Two Free Stories

December 11, 2010December 13, 2010Kristine Kathryn Rusch3 Comments on Two Free Stories

Since so many of you are enjoying my Free Fiction Mondays, I thought I should alert you to two other stories of mine you can get for free. The first is a Christmas story, “A Taste of Miracles.”  You can download it for free from Smashwords in any e-pub format you like or read it […]

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The Karnikov Card: A Spade/Paladin Story

November 28, 2010Kristine Kathryn Rusch10 Comments on The Karnikov Card: A Spade/Paladin Story

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine just published my latest Spade/Paladin story, “The Karnikov Card.”  You can find an excerpt here.  And if you’re at all interested in other Spade/Paladin stories, check out Paladin’s website for updates.

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