In the traditional news cycle, politicians, major organizations, and anyone with a PR brain dump stories into the week before Memorial Day (and sometimes the week after) in the hopes that no one will notice. Generally speaking, no one does notice because most of America is focused on the three-day weekend and the unofficial start […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: The “Brutal” 2000-Word Day Kristine Kathryn Rusch I know, I know. I didn’t do a long blog last week because of the hack-attack, now fixed, and I heard from a lot of you wondering what the “missing” post would have been about. Many of you speculated that I would take on Simon […]
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 ReadingWell, since everyone’s talking about this already, I may as well come clean. I have a new pen name, Kris DeLake, and the first book is out in March. This is romance and space opera combined. I like to say that the spaceships go “whoosh!” as they travel through space, which is why I didn’t […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Bestseller Lists and Other Thoughts Kristine Kathryn Rusch On Tuesday, in my morning business reading, I came across a rather startling statistic: the claim that it only took 20,000 sales of paper books to hit the paper bestseller lists. I’m also assuming the statistic means paper; it might mean that it takes […]
Continue ReadingOnce per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book. I began this practice in February. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site. If you want to read the opening […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: The Fear Chronicles Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, as the stock market took yet another tumble, I saw a big-name trader get interviewed on the evening news. The trader said—not flippantly, but tiredly—“You know how it goes in the markets. Traders either respond with greed or terror.” Economic analysts have been talking […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Third Quarter Blues Kristine Kathryn Rusch This past week has been an utterly fascinating one for me. My husband Dean Wesley Smith and Scott William Carter taught a four-day workshop on the New World of Publishing. Professional writers from all over the spectrum (and all over the world) came to learn not […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Promotion Kristine Kathryn Rusch Finally, a week that’s a little slower than some others on the news front. Yes, there are some great blogs out there and some interesting news stories, but nothing earth-shattering. Or should I say, nothing that can’t wait until next week. Since December, many of you have […]
Continue ReadingThe reviews are starting to come in for my next Kristine Grayson book, and they’re favorable. Take a look: “Grayson deftly nods to pop culture and offers clever spins on classic legends and lore while adding unique twists all her own.” —Booklist Starred Review “A delightful antidote to the fairy tale and an entertaining read.” […]
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