Bob’s Beach Books – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Business Musings: Writing for the Ages

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015Kristine Kathryn Rusch33 Comments

I’m having a bizarre week. I’m redesigning my website, so I don’t have time to update any of the other websites I’m responsible for, including the Women in Science Fiction project. I’m continuing to read for that, though, and am having a blast, although I’m deeply overwhelmed by the amount of material.

Next week, I’m taking a Shakespeare class, partly for a project I’m working on and partly to get my mind on other things. So I’m reading three different Shakespeare plays in prep — Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, and Antony and Cleopatra, as well as some supplemental material that I need to finish by the middle of the week.

Dean handed me his latest novel on Sunday, and he’s doing a short story per day, starting today. (Well, starting yesterday, really.) And he’s blogging about that.

And because I’m me, I’m keeping up my leisure reading Just Because. And buying too many new books, and not writing enough, and aaaaargh!

(Excuse the meltdown. Am a tad overwhelmed. Moving on…)

The Business Rusch: The Old Ways (Discoverability Part 4)

December 11, 2013December 12, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch29 Comments

Here’s how writers decide to market their books: They read blogs and articles, which tell them the best thing to do. Or, they mimic what they’ve seen other authors do. Or, they try to act like big traditional publishers, by funding their own book tours and doing signings. I’d say that’s no way to run […]

The Business Rusch: Career Writers

August 21, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch82 Comments

Those of us who blog regularly about the changes in the publishing industry do not do so from the place of disinterested observers. Even though a few of us are former journalists, we’re not writing like the journalists we once were. Yes, we’re imparting information, but we’re imparting information with a bias. For those of […]

The Business Rusch: Getting Rid of the Middle Man

November 28, 2012Kristine Kathryn Rusch47 Comments

Full confession: I stole this title from an Entertainment Weekly article that I’ll be referencing later in this blog post. This title fits what I’m going to do so much better than something dull like “Crowdsourcing” or something profane like “!x!?! the Suits.” I’d been planning to write about crowdsourcing projects for a while, but […]

A New WMG Publishing Update

September 16, 2012Kristine Kathryn Rusch4 Comments

I am goofing around, learning all the new equipment at WMG, and have found myself learning all the video stuff. So here’s September’s update: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2u7YHoTxKI[/youtube]