The Business Rusch: Common Sense and the Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch A friend of mine runs a flat fee menu service that helps writers publish novels, short stories, and nonfiction books as e-books. Her service will also help writers publish print-on-demand books as well. By a flat-fee menu service, I mean this: If you prep […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Deal Breakers Continued Kristine Kathryn Rusch Before we get too deep into this week’s blog post, let me point you to a few things that came up in the last few days. Last week, I recommended that all writers, even those with an agent, hire an intellectual properties attorney to vet […]
Continue ReadingI’m deep into the post for Thursday and realized I don’t have the space for the information I’m going to put here. So this is a special midweek post for writers with agents. It’s a follow-up to the “Surviving the Transition” posts. The Passive Guy, who is a retired attorney, is doing a series of […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Plan For The Future (Surviving The Transition Part Four) Kristine Kathryn Rusch For the past month, I have geared my blog toward established writers. Starting with the post, “Writing Like It’s 1999,” I have discussed the rapid change that the publishing industry is going through, change that most working professional writers haven’t […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Agents (Surviving The Transition Part Three) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I had a dream, as recently as six months ago, that agents would help writers through this transition in publishing. I believed that agents would band together and fight to the death for the best possible terms in a contract for every […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Surviving The Transition (Part One) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I know I scared a lot of you last week. Many of you—most of you, judging by my private e-mail and the discussions I had in person in Los Angeles over the weekend—had no idea the industry had changed so much. Most of […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Writing Like It’s 1999 Kristine Kathryn Rusch When change hits in the arts, it hits hard. Tonight, I was reading an article in the April Vanity Fair about the movie All The President’s Men. The last two paragraphs of the article discuss how, in 1975, Sidney Sheinberg at MCA came up […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Advocates, Addendums, and Sneaks, oh my! Kristine Kathryn Rusch Sometimes I’m really slow on the uptake. I mean face-palm, well-duh slow. Sometimes it takes a knock to the head to make me put all the pieces together into one big gigantic lump. The knock on the head came earlier in the week, […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Royalty Statements Update Kristine Kathryn Rusch This morning, I got another royalty statement. This one came from a medium-sized national publisher, not one of the erroneously named Big Six. I stared at the statement in shock. After the week I had just experienced, I forgot that royalty statements could be […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Trust Me Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, I declared The Changing Times in Publishing series finished primarily so I could stop using that subheader in my posts. The times continue to change, and I’m going to stick with the topic for a while. I had hoped to make The Changing Times in […]
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