The Business Rusch: How Traditional Publishers Are Making Money

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 report them. (Or, at least, their parent companies must.) For […]

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The Business Rusch: Pushing The Envelope

  The Business Rusch: Pushing The Envelope Kristine Kathryn Rusch   Monday morning, I ripped off the previous page on my Pearls Before Swine 2011 Day-To-Day Calendar to find Pig and Rat, sitting at a table.  On the table, a steaming cup of coffee and an envelope.  Pig’s hand (paw?) is on the edge of the envelope. Rat asks him, “What are you doing?” Pig […]

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Alien Influences

WMG Publishing has released an ebook edition of my Arthur C. Clarke nominated novel, Alien Influences.  While the novel got great treatment in the U.K., it got published “dead” in the United States.  I had already lost two editors at the company and no one supervised the release.  While the novel received almost no attention in the U.S. science fiction press, The New York Times […]

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