The Business Rusch: Time and the Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch Recently, I got an e-mail from a writer whose name you would recognize. She has written dozens of novels, maybe a hundred or more. Her career stretches back more than thirty years. She has jumped into indie publishing whole-heartedly and cannot imagine going back to […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Competition Kristine Kathryn Rusch Just a few years ago, traditional publishers had a monopoly. They controlled the distribution of books. This meant that the publishers dictated terms to booksellers and they dictated terms to writers. What resulted was what happens whenever anyone controls a marketplace: lots of nasty business practices, lots […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: How Traditional Publishers Are Making Money Kristine Kathryn Rusch Of course, this past week has been just as busy in publishing as the last several weeks. The changes are amazing, especially considering how stable the industry used to be. Third quarter earnings have come in, and the publicly traded publishing companies must […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Deal Breakers Kristine Kathryn Rusch For the bulk of my thirty-year career in publishing, the industry has remained the same. In fact, the industry hadn’t changed much since the end of the Second World War. Oh, there were changes—the rise of mass market paperbacks, the decline of the slick magazines, the introduction […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Publishers (Surviving The Transition Part Two) Kristine Kathryn Rusch For the past two weeks, I’ve geared this blog toward established writers, writers who have been in the business for ten or twenty years or more, and have made a living from their writing during this time. My first post in this mini-series, […]
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 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 Two Kristine Kathryn Rusch I got a lot of interesting responses to last week’s introduction to negotiation section, some of which folks posted in the comments section. I suggest you look at those, particularly the comment by Randy Tatano, before you start this section. (And thank you, my friends, […]
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. […]
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