The Business Rusch: Professional Writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch I warned you guys in some of my other posts that I have what I call aw-f*ck-it moments. (Forgive the vulgarity; I know some of you don’t like that. But that’s what I call it, and that’s what it is. The little asterisk is there because my […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self Help Books Kristine Kathryn Rusch Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reading on women, money, and power, for a project that I’m working on. Most of these self-help books, written by women for women, contend that women are socialized differently. We’re raised so that we’re afraid to […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 Kristine Kathryn Rusch For the bulk of my thirty-year career in publishing, the industry has remained the same. In fact, the industry hadn’t changed much since the end of the Second World War. Oh, there were changes—the rise of mass market paperbacks, the decline of the slick magazines, the introduction […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Bookstore Observations Kristine Kathryn Rusch I live in a town that has no completely new bookstore. We have two marvelous bookstores that feature new and used. One specializes in mysteries, and the other gets as much of everything as it can. But it only has a tiny storefront, and so “everything” is […]
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: Beginning Writers (Changing Times Part Sixteen) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I have done everything I could possibly do to avoid writing this post. I wrote extra long on the novel today, cooked a more elaborate dinner than usual, did the dishes, and even paid one entire month’s worth of bills—including things that won’t […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Midlist Writers & Big Publishing (Changing Times Part Fourteen) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Me and cliffhangers. It seems to be the only way I can write this mini-series on publishing. I feel like I’m verging on the good part, and then I run out of time and tell y’all to come back next […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: International Travel Tips Part One Kristine Kathryn Rusch Initially, I thought of doing this topic as a separate post, part of the travel writing I did while in Germany. But then I realized that I left travel out of the Freelancer’s Guide (more or less), and I figured I needed to spend […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Small World Kristine Kathryn Rusch Yes, I’m finally home. I got home late Tuesday night and I’ve spent the day doing laundry, staring at my piled-up e-mail, and petting cats. This column will not be that complex because I thought I’d have a day between getting home and writing the column. Ah, […]
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