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Business Musings: Control, Control, Control

March 15, 2017March 7, 2017Kristine Kathryn Rusch7 Comments

I am fully aware of the fact that the problems I’m having are problems I would have traded up for thirty years ago. I’m also fully aware that these problems aren’t really problems at all.

They’re opportunities.

I’m hardwired to jump at opportunities. One of my biggest complaints about my agents, back in the days when I had agents, was how many opportunities those folks failed to jump at. Or screwed up. Or ignored completely.

And yet…

I’m a writer first, and as a writer first, anything that puts me behind on getting to my fictional worlds irritates the hell out of me.

The Business Rusch: How Traditional Publishers Are Making Money

November 16, 2011November 21, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch78 Comments

The 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 […]

The Business Rusch: Smackdown!!!!!

March 30, 2011April 2, 2011Kristine Kathryn Rusch44 Comments

The Business Rusch: Smackdown!!!!! Kristine Kathryn Rusch What passes for American journalism these days loves a good smackdown, and a week ago Monday, the Journalists Who Cover Publishing got one. On that day, some nervous publishing executives, afraid they wouldn’t get a hot deal, leaked to the press that Amanda Hocking, “darling of […]