Those of you who read this blog regularly know I have a magpie brain. I find shiny things here and there, and then I put them together—not to create a nest (I have one, thanks)—but to help me form a realization or to figure out the solution to a problem or to reinforce things I […]
Continue ReadingAfter last week’s blog post, I became scared to open my e-mail. Not because I got hate mail—far from it. I got a lot of positive mail. But I also got a lot of sad stories about the scams out there, mostly from people who watched friends succumb. There have always been scams that suck […]
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: Pushing The Envelope Kristine Kathryn Rusch Monday morning, I ripped off the previous page on my Pearls Before Swine 2011 Day-To-Day Calendar to find Pig and Rat, sitting at a table. On the table, a steaming cup of coffee and an envelope. Pig’s hand (paw?) is on the edge of […]
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 […]
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 (Changing Times Part Eleven) Kristine Kathryn Rusch When I started this series on the changing times in publishing, I was responding to a cacophony of voices. Two of those voices were from published writers on the opposite ends of the e-book spectrum—New York Times bestselling author, Scott Turow, president of […]
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