The Business Rusch: Where Art Meets Commerce
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably think I make a business decision every time I sit down to write. You might assume that I have audience-tested my ideas and have planned my next...
View ArticleRecommended Reading List: May, 2013
Read a fun middle-grade novel this month, and realized that while I had loved, loved, loved the first book in the series, the second disappointed—not because it was worse than the first. It might have...
View ArticleBusiness 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...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Writing in Difficult Times
This morning, a tweet from a British comic book writer floated across my Twitter feed. He wrote (and I’m paraphrasing here): Sorry about the flurry of political tweets. I’ll get back to light...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Art (Rethinking The Writing Business Part Six)
The eagle-eyed among you will note that we changed the cover of the brand-new Kristine Grayson release about two weeks after the book came out. Allyson Longuiera, the publisher of WMG and our designer,...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Money 1 Licensing In (Rethinking The Writing Business Part...
See that piece of art at the top of this post? I licensed that cartoon through Canstock Photo, which I generally use for these posts. There are other stock art licensing sites, and WMG Publishing uses...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: The Upside to Crap
Those of you who follow me on Facebook probably have an inkling that I really love theater. I do write fiction about it, not as much as I would like, however, in my series about magical dramaturgs. (If...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: AI, Copyright, And Writers
To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. Here we are—the mess of the mess of the mess. Right now, we’re in one of those technological befuddling moments, where the technology is ahead...
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