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The Business Rusch: The “Brutal” 2000-Word Day
The 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 Lipskar’s ridiculous letter from the Association of Authors Representatives to the Department of Justice. My husband Dean Wesley Smith, Joe Konrath, The Passive Guy, Bob Mayer, and others did a fine job with that. [links] In my opinion, David Gaughran did the best post of all: he wrote an open letter to the DOJ, which all writers should read and should probably sign onto. I have. The thing is, I wouldn’t have written about the AAR letter. What … Read entire article »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Thoroughly Kissed
Once 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 … Read more »
Free Fiction Monday: Valuables
For his entire life, Willard Harrison envied Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, but never more than now. Willard lost his arm, his wife, and everything he owned to the Yankees. Now the Yankees hold … Read more »
The Business Rusch: A Short Post
The Business Rusch: A Short Post Kristine Kathryn Rusch As most of you know, my website got hacked last week. In fact, all of my websites–and I have a few–got hacked. So I’ve been … Read more »
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The Business Rusch: Writing Like It's 1999
The Business Rusch: Writing Like It’s 1999 Kristine Kathryn Rusch When change hits in the arts, it hits hard. Tonight, I was reading an article in the April Vanity Fair about the movie … Read more »
The Business Rusch: Royalty Statements Update
The Business Rusch: Royalty Statements Update Kristine Kathryn Rusch This morning, I got another royalty statement. This one came from a medium-sized national publisher, not one of the erroneously named Big Six. I … Read more »
The Business Rusch: Advocates, Addendums, and Sneaks, oh my!
The Business Rusch: Advocates, Addendums, and Sneaks, oh my! Kristine Kathryn Rusch Sometimes I’m really slow on the uptake. I mean face-palm, well-duh slow. Sometimes it takes a knock to the head to … Read more »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Thoroughly Kissed
Once 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 of 2011. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site. If you want to read the opening to the previous fourteen novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted Thoroughly Kissed, which I wrote as Kristine Grayson. Sourcebooks will release Thoroughly Kissed in June. The storyline follows Utterly Charming, which I excerpted a few months ago. You don’t have to read Utterly Charming to enjoy Thoroughly Kissed. The Grayson novels are marketed as romance, but in truth, they’re light fantasy. This book is … Read entire article »
Free Fiction Monday: Valuables
For his entire life, Willard Harrison envied Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, but never more than now. Willard lost his arm, his wife, and everything he owned to the Yankees. Now the Yankees hold Memphis, and he can’t do anything. Except think of Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, who escaped with her valuables into the wilds of Tennessee. Willard wants her valuables. Willard wants her life. And he means to get both. Shortlisted for The Best American Mysteries in 2001. “Valuables” by Edgar-nominee Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for $2.99 (with bonus story) on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other e-bookstores. Valuables Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copyright © 2012 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Published by WMG Publishing On June 8, 1861, Mrs. Rose Grenlauer, with the … Read entire article »
The Business Rusch: A Short Post
The Business Rusch: A Short Post Kristine Kathryn Rusch As most of you know, my website got hacked last week. In fact, all of my websites–and I have a few–got hacked. So I’ve been busy, even though I don’t have a lot to show for it. Dean and I hired a website security firm to clean up the mess, and to clean up our other sites. The firm will also monitor the website every four hours to make sure it doesn’t get hacked again. We have hired a second security firm to do the same thing, figuring redundancy is our best option. As of this writing, the warnings are still up that this is a dangerous website. The … Read entire article »
Hacked Plus Free Fiction News
For those of you showing up for Free Fiction Monday, I’m sorry to say there’s nothing new today. My website got hacked on Thursday. It was a particularly virulent attack, which made the site receive warnings from all kinds of places. If you clicked through those warnings, run your anti-virus software to make sure you didn’t get any nasty stuff on your own computer. I’m still not sure if the hack was deliberate, meaning targeted at me. I’m waiting for the security firm’s report. I’m not sure if they’ll know. I’ve been the subject of several attacks this year, including a denial-of-service attack which came after a similar post to the royalty one I put up … Read entire article »
The Business Rusch: Royalty Statement Update 2012
The Business Rusch: Royalty Statement Update 2012 Kristine Kathryn Rusch Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about the fact that my e-book royalties from a couple of my traditional publishers looked wrong. Significantly wrong. After I posted that blog, dozens of writers contacted me with similar information. More disturbingly, some of these writers had evidence that their paper book royalties were also significantly wrong. Writers contacted their writers’ organizations. Agents got the news. Everyone in the industry, it seemed, read those blogs, and many of the writers/agents/organizations vowed to do something. And some of them did. I hoped to do an update within a few weeks after the initial post. I thought my update would come … Read entire article »
Free Fiction Monday: Results
Percentages. Chances. Opportunities. Before Bryan marries Jess, he needs to know what kind of children they’ll have. Fortunately tests exist for that. The results have arrived, and now Jess must chose: babies, percentages, or Bryan? “Results” by Hugo-award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available (with a bonus story) for $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords and in other ebookstores. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
The Business Rusch: One Phone Call From Our Knees
The Business Rusch: One Phone Call From Our Knees Kristine Kathryn Rusch In 2009, Mat Kearney came out with a song called Closer to Love, which is, apparently, a favorite of the DJs on the station I listen to. It still plays in rather heavy rotation for an older song, and I hear it at least once a week. The song isn’t one of my favorites, but it has a line that stops me every time I hear it, because it’s so true. We are, as Kearney states, just a phone call from our knees. Dean and I have had those calls throughout our lives together—when my father died, when Dean’s stepfather died. The calls that just take your … Read entire article »
