The Business Rusch: Smackdown!!!!!
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...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Agents (Surviving the Transition Part 3)
The Business Rusch: Agents (Surviving The Transition Part Three) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I had a dream, as recently as six months ago, that agents would help writers through this transition in...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain
The Business Rusch: Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain Kristine Kathryn Rusch The curtains are rustling. In some gilded office, a little dog with a lot of attitude has taken a green...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: The Changing Playing Field
Let’s start with some really cool statistics. The first is reliable. It’s based on daily data received from 70 million retail locations all over the United States. Here it is: In the first quarter of...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Dreams and Bestsellers
Because of this blog, I see a lot of publishing contracts. People want advice on certain clauses. I tell folks that I can’t give legal advice because I’m not a lawyer, but I will look at the contract...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Subsidiary Rights For Indies
One of my traditional publishers paid me in September. I was surprised. Not because I didn’t know about the money. I did. It was an advance for rights in translation for an entire series of books. I...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: The Big Five (2017 in Review)
As I prepare for 2018, I’m reviewing what changed in publishing in 2017. I’m writing all of these blogs during the last week of December, 2017, and will stagger them on my website throughout January of...
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