This past week, my husband writer Dean Wesley Smith tilted at a windmill and decided to define terms in this new world of publishing. He described self-published writers as writers who published books by themselves without starting a press to do it. (In other words, if you saw the book on Amazon, you’d see: The Story […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: The Changing Definition of Publishing Kristine Kathryn Rusch This week, the announcements for the Pulitzer Prize shocked the publishing world because, for some reason, the Pulitzer board declined to chose a winner from the three fiction nominees. Lost in the controversy (besides the hurt feelings of the fiction nominees and the fact […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: The Book Trade Kristine Kathryn Rusch It’s amazing how hindsight makes things clearer. Actually, the changes in publishing have brought a lot of things into focus for me. Then I think about those things, and remember conversations or moments when I felt simply astounded at something, but let it pass, not […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Why Not? Kristine Kathryn Rusch On TV’s most popular drama series, NCIS, the main character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, walks through the office, and if he hears a stupid statement, he slaps the speaker on the back of the head. Now, this is fiction, mind you. In any real office, military or not, […]
Continue ReadingI got very far behind in posting my Recommended Reading lists in 2011. I’ll try to do better in 2012 by posting the month after the list was compiled. However, I have to catch up on 2011 first. So here’s October. Everything you see below was written then. Enjoy! —— We had about six emergencies […]
Continue ReadingI know, I know. I read the Christmas stories before Christmas, to prep myself for the season, but I’m telling you about them here. Ah, well. Buy the issues/books now and save the stories for next year…. As you can tell from the list, I went on a short story binge in December. For some […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Bestselling Writers (Changing Times Part Eight) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every single writer I’ve ever met wants to become a bestseller. Writers want their work read by everyone from their teachers to the grade-school bully to some person in a small unsung island in the Pacific. The problem is that vision of a […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingSeptember was as good a reading month as I had hoped it would be. I read a number of wonderful things on my long flights and during my travels. Much of what I read was on Kindle and on my iPhone. I do have a rant below about format, simply because some major publishers don’t […]
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