Writer – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Business Musings: An Agent Nightmare Revealed

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018Kristine Kathryn Rusch50 Comments

The news broke publicly over the holiday weekend. If you blinked, you missed it. The bookkeeper for a prestigious New York literary agency pled guilty to embezzling millions from the agency, leaving the agency “on the brink of bankruptcy.” Donadio & Olson has existed for 49 years. Started by legendary agent Candida Donadio, the agency […]

Business Musings: The Small Traditional Publishers (2017 in Review) 2

January 10, 2018January 1, 2018Kristine Kathryn Rusch19 Comments

Once I separated out the Big Five from all of the other traditional publishers in the U.S., I came to a happy realization. There are a lot of good publishers doing the kind of work we readers want publishers to do—curating books with a voice and an attitude, so that we know what to expect from the company, marketing those books to the best of their ability, and making the books available in all formats.