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The Business Rusch: Comparisons

August 10, 2011August 15, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch71 Comments

The Business Rusch: Comparisons Kristine Kathryn Rusch I have spent a lot of time with other writers in the past three months, and I have seen this scenario over and over and over again: Writers are talking about indie publishing e-books at a dinner or a lunch or over drinks. A newer writer, maybe one […]

The Business Rusch: Bookstore Observations

June 15, 2011June 20, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch81 Comments

The Business Rusch: Bookstore Observations Kristine Kathryn Rusch I live in a town that has no completely new bookstore. We have two marvelous bookstores that feature new and used. One specializes in mysteries, and the other gets as much of everything as it can. But it only has a tiny storefront, and so “everything” is […]

The Business Rusch: Modern Writer Survival Skills (Changing Times Part 18)

February 16, 2011February 18, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch68 Comments

The Business Rusch: Modern Writer Survival Skills (Changing Times Part Eighteen) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I was going to title this installment “Beginning Writers Part Three,” but I think that title is too exclusive. Because all writers are going to need the skill sets I’m going to describe below to get through these changes in publishing. […]

The Business Rusch: Bestselling Writers (Changing Times Part Eight)

December 8, 2010December 11, 2010Kristine Kathryn Rusch12 Comments

The 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 […]

The Business Rusch: Bookstores (Changing Times Part Six)

November 25, 2010November 27, 2010Kristine Kathryn Rusch22 Comments

The Business Rusch: Bookstores (Changing Times Part Six) Kristine Kathryn Rusch In September, I attended a science fiction convention in Leipzig, Germany. Leipzig is in the former German Democratic Republic, or what was then called East Germany. The science fiction fans who put on the convention had started a science fiction club before the Berlin […]

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

October 28, 2010November 23, 2010Kristine Kathryn Rusch18 Comments

< 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 […]