The Business Rusch: R*E*S*P*E*C*T

The Business Rusch: R*E*S*P*E*C*T Kristine Kathryn Rusch Crank up the Aretha Franklin as you read this. Because her classic “R*E*S*P*E*C*T” is blaring as I write this. I am fed up. This is the kind of mood I get into when I tell bosses to go screw themselves, when I walk off the job, when I say, “That’s it, no one treats me like this. Not […]

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The Business Rusch: New Paths

The Business Rusch: New Paths Kristine Kathryn Rusch These days, I don’t often teach beginning writers. Dean Wesley Smith and I teach professionals who are in a transition point in their careers. Usually, those professionals don’t need basics. Usually, they need work on business skills. But this past weekend, in Whitehorse up in Canada’s Yukon, I taught a roomful of writers, some of whom hadn’t […]

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The Business Rusch: Surviving The Transition (Part One)

  The 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 my conversations in Los Angeles, when I wasn’t meeting with […]

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