The Business Rusch: Bestselling Writers (Changing Times Part Eight)
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The Business Rusch: Beginning Writers Again—Sort of (Changing Times Part Seventeen) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Wow. The changes keep coming, dozens in the space of a week. I have watched this kind of...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Why Not?
The Business Rusch: Why Not? Kristine Kathryn Rusch On TV’s most popular drama series, NCIS, the main character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, walks through the office, and if he hears a stupid statement, he...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Bestseller Lists and Other Thoughts
The Business Rusch: Bestseller Lists and Other Thoughts Kristine Kathryn Rusch On Tuesday, in my morning business reading, I came across a rather startling statistic: the claim that it only took...
View ArticleThe Business Rusch: Unintended Consequences
I am completely overwhelmed. Not because I just finished teaching a week-long workshop. Not because one of my novels decided to become triplets. Not because it’s about to become November. Because I...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Bestseller Lists Again (Or Chicken Little Is Wrong. Again.)
In the middle of February, I saw a tweet from Melville House, an independent publisher in Brooklyn, NY, linking to an article of theirs. I followed the link and saw this title: “Into the Bezosphere:...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Too Much Stuff (Estates Again)
Aretha Franklin died in August. She was 76, and her death is a great loss. I have loved her music for as long as I can remember, and I’m so saddened by her death. I’m also sad that she shows up in this...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Die Hard (Licensing)
In July of 2018, Bruce Willis emphatically stated (at his Comedy Central roast) that the 1988 movie Die Hard, which made him an action star, “is not a Christmas movie.” It is, he said, “a goddamn Bruce...
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