Artwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Role Models Kristine Kathryn Rusch The past few weeks, we’ve had a pretty lively discussion of behavior and the professional freelancer. If you haven’t done so, go back and read the comments sections in the two posts on jealousy and in last week’s post on courtesy. […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Professional Courtesy Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week’s post on “Surviving Someone Else’s Jealousy” went viral. I got more e-mail than I’ve ever gotten on a single Freelancer’s Guide post, and more people tweeted, blogged, or commented on various social networking sites than ever had before. I […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Surviving Someone Else’s Jealousy Kristine Kathryn Rusch About five minutes after I posted last week’s section on professional jealousy, I got back-to-back e-mails from regular readers of the Guide, asking me how to deal with being a victim of professional jealousy. Both letters had poignant stories […]
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Professional Jealousy Kristine Kathryn Rusch Over the past 43 weeks, I’ve asked you all if you had a topic you wanted me to cover. Some of your requests sped up my timetable on topics—which is why I covered vacations so early in the Guide—and a few of you requested refinements to […]
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Negotiation Part Six Kristine Kathryn Rusch A small little topic, I said. Eight, maybe nine more posts, I said. Maybe one or two will go long, I said. But jeez—six parts???? On negotiation? What was I thinking? It might need its own tiny book. But for the moment, this is the […]
Continue ReadingThe Dragon Page has uploaded its first interview podcast of the year–an interview with me. It covers a wide range of things from my latest novel Diving into the Wreck to The Freelancer’s Survival Guide to future tech. You can listen or download here.
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Negotiation Part Five Kristine Kathryn Rusch This little sequence on negotiation has really caught your attention, even though I’m posting in the middle of the holiday season. Thanks, everyone, for the e-mails, the donations, and the comments. I’m also seeing a lot of blogging and tweeting on this topic in response […]
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Negotiation Part Three Kristine Kathryn Rusch I knew negotiation was going to be a tough topic. But I thought it would be tough for me, not for you guys. Instead, I’m seeing a lot of private comments and some great blogging on the topic, and I’m realizing that negotiation is hard […]
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Negotiation Part One Kristine Kathryn Rusch I had this topic on my list ever since I wrote the money sections of the Guide. When I do the full book-length copy of the Guide, that’s where this section will go. Because, as my ex-husband used to say, all of life is negotiable. […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Postponing Your Dreams Kristine Kathryn Rusch Sometimes I have to wonder if I was a history major and am a science fiction writer because I see patterns in what Thomas Jefferson called “the course of human events” or if I see patterns because I had training […]
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