After last week’s blog post, I became scared to open my e-mail. Not because I got hate mail—far from it. I got a lot of positive mail. But I also got a lot of sad stories about the scams out there, mostly from people who watched friends succumb. There have always been scams that suck in wannabe writers. Terrible contracts for professional writers have existed […]
The Business Rusch: Common Sense And The Writer
The Business Rusch: Common Sense and the Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch A friend of mine runs a flat fee menu service that helps writers publish novels, short stories, and nonfiction books as e-books. Her service will also help writers publish print-on-demand books as well. By a flat-fee menu service, I mean this: If you prep an e-pub file and post to the e-book distributers yourself, […]
The Business Rusch: Bad Decisions and the Midlist Writer (Changing Times Part 15)
The Business Rusch: Bad Decisions and The Midlist Writer (Changing Times Part Fifteen) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, I ended my blog with this happy thought: “Looking in my crystal ball, I worry that the writers who will get scammed, who will lose actual fortunes, won’t be the beginners or the bestsellers. It’ll be the established midlist writer.” As I sat down to write on […]
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