The Business Rusch: Midlist Writers & Big Publishing (Changing Times Part 14)

The 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 week. Which is what I did last week. I promised […]

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The Business Rusch: How E-Books Will Save Big Publishing (Changing Times Part Four)

The Business Rusch: How E-Books Will Save Big Publishing (Changing Times Continued) Kristine Kathryn Rusch In my very first post in this long series of linked topics, I advised anyone who cared about publishing to keep up with the day-to-day industry news.  I wrote that blog post in my spare time over four days and I noted: “In four days, some parts of the [publishing] […]

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The Business Rusch: Challenges For Big Publishing (Changing Times Part Three)

The Business Rusch: Challenges for Big Publishing (Changing Times Continued) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Misinformation presented as fact irritates me.  It always has. My training as a journalist came at the hands of the World War II journalists—the guys who essentially invented television and radio news—as well as some hardcore investigative reporters.  Thirty years ago, even the smallest news organization wouldn’t print (or broadcast) information that […]

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The Business Rusch: Understanding Publishing (Changing Times Part 2)

< The Business Rusch: Understanding Publishing (Changing Times Continued) Kristine Kathryn Rusch As I mentioned last week, I’m going to finally examine the elephant in the room—the changes in my industry, publishing.  I realize that many of you reading this blog aren’t in publishing, but you do run businesses.  I hope that the blogs I write in the next few weeks will remain relevant to […]

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Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Great Experiment

Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Great Experiment Kristine Kathryn Rusch “This post marks the beginning of an experiment.” That’s how I started the Freelancer’s Survival Guide, back in April of 2009.  The experiment was mine; I had no idea how well writing a book chapter by chapter on my website would work—or if it would work at all. As I […]

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