A Couple Articles by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
I talk about Dean Wesley Smith a lot (or I did a lot on the old Story Arcs) but less about his wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. I don’t really know how that happened, but I am going to correct it.
Personally, I think if you take her Business Rusch posts and the Shatzkin Files, you pretty much have everything you need to know about publishing as an industry. They’re well informed, experience, very analytical and sit on different sides of the publishing spectrum. Note on that, reading Mike Shatzkin is a bit like reading H. P. Lovecraft. Not so much the supernatural aspect, more like, “What the hell did that paragraph just say?”
Anyway, Ms. Rusch has an incredible way of being brutally honest, and being uplifting at the same time. If you have anything to do with publishing, no matter its form, read her stuff. If you don’t agree with her, it will at least serve as a counterbalance.
Also, the first article is about her path to publishing her Smokey Dalton series. I don’t want to endorse it before reading, but it’s set in Memphis and there just aren’t enough stories set in this area. Love to see it and am looking forward to checking it out.
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