Publishers Weekly – Page 3 – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Business Rusch: Advertising, Print Editions, and Traditional Publishing (Discoverability Part One)

November 20, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch31 Comments

The latest buzz word in the publishing industry is “discoverability.” Everyone’s worried about the “mountain of crap” that self publishing will (has?) brought into the industry—including self published authors. Everyone ignores two important facts: one person’s crap is another person’s beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume. The newly merged Penguin […]

The Business Rusch: Unintended Consequences

October 30, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch38 Comments

I am completely overwhelmed. Not because I just finished teaching a week-long workshop. Not because one of my novels decided to become triplets. Not because it’s about to become November. Because I have too much to read. Seriously. I preorder a lot of books, and pick up the rest from my favorite local bookseller. One […]

The Business Rusch: Addendums, Rights Grabs & Agents (Yet Again)

September 25, 2013September 26, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch39 Comments

Recently, I got e-mail from another career writer, talking about a rights grab from a traditional publisher. I saw the document in question; it’s egregious. I do not have permission to talk about this particular document nor would I, since it’s proprietary, but it’s the kind of document I’ve seen at least six times in […]

The Business Rusch: Story Demands

September 11, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch31 Comments

I am currently writing three books at once. I know, I know, some of you believe that’s not unusual for me, but it is. Usually I focus on one thing and wrestle it to the ground before moving onto something else. These three books are one thing. They’re in one of my series, and for […]

The Business Rusch: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

September 4, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch37 Comments

I had a lot of marvelous, thoughtful comments on last week’s blog. I didn’t respond, in part because I was extremely busy this past week, but mostly because I would have been expressing my opinion on the commenter’s life and career choices. I try not to do that, particularly in public. We’re all different, and […]

The Business Rusch: Dreams and Bestsellers

July 31, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch51 Comments

Because of this blog, I see a lot of publishing contracts. People want advice on certain clauses. I tell folks that I can’t give legal advice because I’m not a lawyer, but I will look at the contract and tell them if they need to hire a lawyer to negotiate it. Most of the time […]

The Business Rusch: The Year of The Bookstore

May 8, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch46 Comments

A week ago Sunday, one of our local booksellers, Sheldon McArthur of North by Northwest Books, tossed me the April 22, 2013 Publishers Weekly. The issue has a good review of my upcoming Kris DeLake novel, A Spy To Die For, but it turns out that wasn’t why Sheldon gave me the PW. He gave […]

The Business Rusch: Book As Event

April 17, 2013April 27, 2013Kristine Kathryn Rusch38 Comments

I finished my second novel (as an adult) on the day my best friend from high school gave birth to her second child. My friend called me from the hospital to tell me the great news and then, because she was a sweet woman and because she was from the upper Midwest, she reflexively asked […]

The Business Rusch: Watching The Numbers

September 26, 2012Kristine Kathryn Rusch189 Comments

I should never read the comments on other people’s writing information blogs. The comments discourage me, generally for one of two reasons. If the blog is about traditional publishing, and the authors are traditionally published only with no desire to change, I get discouraged at the amount of misinformation. If the blog is about indie […]

The Business Rusch: A Tale of Two Royalty Statements

August 15, 2012Kristine Kathryn Rusch41 Comments

Today I had hoped to write a blog about something other than traditional publishing contracts, but events have conspired against me. Cory Doctorow published a column on Publishers Weekly’s website about a new contract demand that might be coming from Hachette. Apparently, Hachette has decided to ensure that all of its e-books have some sort of DRM. […]