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The Business Rusch: The Writer’s Guide To Evaluating A Traditional Publishing...
The Business Rusch: The Writer’s Guide To Evaluating A Traditional Publishing Company Kristine Kathryn Rusch About once a week, I get an e-mail from someone asking me to recommend a traditional...
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The Business Rusch: Rights Reversion
Over the last couple of years, a number of writers have written to me to ask how to get the rights to their traditionally published novels reverted back to them. These requests increased while I wrote...
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The Business Rusch: Want To Be Read 100 Years From Now? Here’s How.
So, you want to be an artist. You want to be one of those writers everyone has read, even though you’re long dead. You want your work in libraries, on bookstore shelves, and in digital format. You want...
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Recommended Reading List: November, 2012
I initially started this list because I was no longer editing, and I wanted to recommend what I’m reading to you. I’m editing again in a limited capacity for Fiction River, and I’m reading some...
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The Business Rusch: Fearless Inventories
First, an anecdote: It comes from the November issue of Vanity Fair. The magazine published an excerpt—if that’s the right word—from Truman Capote’s legendary unfinished novel, Answered Prayers. In an...
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The Business Rusch: What Writers Need To Know
On Monday, I spent an hour talking with a very knowledgeable business reporter who works at a well-known business daily newspaper, one you probably read. I didn’t exactly speak to her on what’s called...
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The Business Rusch: A Career Versus Publication
I was a bit stunned at the response to last week’s blog, not because the response was negative—it wasn’t—but because so many of you said that you had no idea that writing was a career choice. On a gut...
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The Business Rusch: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
I had a lot of marvelous, thoughtful comments on last week’s blog. I didn’t respond, in part because I was extremely busy this past week, but mostly because I would have been expressing my opinion on...
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Recommended Reading List: April 2014
This is late because of me, which I’ll explain in a moment, and because we’ve changed the website. (Let me know if you’re having issues or if you like the changes.) However, I was already late when the...
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Business Musings: Burning Bridges (The Freelance Scramble Part 5)
A freelance writer needs to be an artist and a businessperson. Sometimes those roles conflict. And sometimes we get put into truly uncomfortable situations. The most uncomfortable situations occur when...
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Business Musings: Poor Poor Pitiful Me Is Not A Business Model
Last week, I wrote a blog about the Authors Guild letter of 2016. I explored a number of things about the letter, but avoided the one thing that annoys me the most. The letter’s tone. It begs. It...
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Business Musings: Introductory Remarks (Dealbreakers/Contracts)
In 2012 and 2013, I published a series of blogs on contract deal breakers for traditionally published writers. I’ve been promising to update it for years now, but I’ll be honest: The very topic...
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Business Musings: Fair, Compromise, Clout, and Balls (Contracts/Dealbreakers)
I’ve been ordering books to help me with this blog series on contracts and deal breakers. Some of the books cover topics I’m less familiar with, but some look like they might be useful to beginners. I...
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Business Musings: Know Your Rights (Contracts/Dealbreakers)
I recently got an email that sent a chill through me. It was a newsletter from a traditional publishing organization. This organization is geared toward publishers and editors, not toward writers. The...
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Business Musings: Prince, Estates, and The Future...
Last week, the death of Prince hit me hard. I was in the middle of teaching the Romance Workshop, here on the Oregon Coast, and working my tail off. A satellite radio station that I always listen to...
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Business Musings: Long-Term Thinking: Rights Reversions (Contracts/Dealbreakers)
As I’ve been looking over my book Dealbreakers from 2013, it’s surprising to me how much I’ve had to change. Things have gotten worse, rather than better. However, I found a couple of topics I could...
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Business Musings: Things I Learned From My Readers
I wrote this post piecemeal as I compiled the contracts blog posts into the book Closing The Deal…On Your Terms. As a result, this post is a bit disjointed and somewhat short. My method, in compiling...
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Business Musings: Writers, Scam Artists, Agents, And More (Sigh)
Just when I thought it was safe to get back into the water… I’m editing a lot these days. I only edit short fiction projects. Anthologies, anthology series (Fiction River), the occasional nonfiction...
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Business Musings: I Spent Decades Developing My IP (Contracts/Dealbreakers)
I’m conducting too many negotiations right now. I discuss them as if they’re easy. They’re not. They’re stressful and take time. But I always learn something. And yesterday, I gained a brand new...
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Business Musings: Stealing Intellectual Property (Contracts/Dealbreakers)
I just had the most illuminating conversation. I had been consulting with someone about one of the TV deals I’m currently negotiating. I had run into a situation I had never encountered before, and I...
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