Comments for Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Comment on Recommended Reading List: February 2025 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:07:12 +0000

In reply to Jessica Baverstock. Thanks! Fixed. I have no idea why it cut off. Weeeeeird

Comment on Recommended Reading List: February 2025 by Jessica Baverstock

Jessica Baverstock — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:06:08 +0000

Kris,

The very end of your last review is cut off in mid-word. Would love to know how it ends. 🙂

Comment on Recommended Reading List: February 2025 by Paul Sadler

Paul Sadler — Sat, 31 May 2025 23:21:41 +0000

Thanks for your list. FWIW, I follow Lee Goldberg on social media, and he had a short story in his brother’s collection, “Eight Very Bad Nights” (all the stories are about Hannukkah). The collection is quite good, with two or three standouts in it. I confess I frequently avoid short story collections for the “failing to stick the landing” problem. Although I’m more annoyed when they fail to take off, can’t maneuver in the air, and there’s no landing at all. Slice of life stuff that seems to have an interesting middle description of a day in someone’s life, full of wordplay and metaphor, and yet no plot or resolution of any kind. None of the ones in 8VBNs have any incompleteness, but my bias is towards Lee’s as the best “full service mystery story”.

Comment on The Retrieval Artist Series In Order by Red Ryder

Red Ryder — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:20:17 +0000

I too am a fan of the Retrieval Artist series and have just completed the final one; ‘The Masterminds.’ My suggestion for the next one is the trial of the masterminds bringing out the problems of the disappeared, and others.

Comment on Time For The Big Time Storybundle! by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Mon, 12 May 2025 03:38:17 +0000

In reply to Victoria D Perez. I wish I could. I'll forward this to Jason Chen, who runs Storybundle. The idea behind Storybundle is that the bundles *are* limited, and the writers use that opportunity to promote their works to a new audience, that audience being the other writers' readers. Thanks for the comment and the support, Victoria.

Comment on Time For The Big Time Storybundle! by Victoria D Perez

Victoria D Perez — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:13:01 +0000

So… I’ve read everything I could find from KKR in the Apple Bookstore. I’ve gotten one Storybundles. Looking for more. Madly in love with KKR’s writing. Just can’t say enough about it to my friends. I am confused about the time limits to order different Storybundles. We aren’t talking Hardbacks that have limited runs. Ebooks are forever. I get encouraging readers to order in a timely manner to support various projects but come on… and particularly the $30 for 38… and others, too. How about bringing them back? Just a few clicks and Ta-Da!! I can definitely say the same for the Time Storybundles, too. I absolutely crave SciFi, Fantasy, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Classics, Memoirs, Spy vs Spy… if it’s in print I’ve read it or hope to. There comes a time, for some of us, that physical limitations open the door and give us time to indulge in reading all those things that work and family didn’t leave time for. For me that time is now… so please, bring back the $30 for 38 that you had before, it looks so yummy in the vid (Great Job!)… Heck, bring them all back 😀
Thanks for listening!

Comment on May Classes For Writers by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:31:15 +0000

In reply to Carla Mathers.

You’re right: you’re not. Folks, if you’re interested in any of my series and wondering what’s going on, go to the side of this page and sign up for the newsletter. I’ll update them a bit more often there. And Diving…I didn’t not have the power to concentrate on something that complicated during a very difficult year. But things just cleared up, and I’ll be able to focus on Diving (and some of the other projects) soon.

Thanks for asking, Carla.

Comment on May Classes For Writers by Carla Mathers

Carla Mathers — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:42:02 +0000

I know this is the wrong place and you don’t have to post it. I have been patiently waiting for the end (?) next installment of the Diving Series. Please please provide an update. Again, an email response would be great you don’t need to post this but I imagine I’m not the only one desiring an update.

Comment on Business Musings: Putting Yourself Out There by Paul Sadler

Paul Sadler — Thu, 01 May 2025 03:34:47 +0000

Cool article Kris. One element that I wonder about sometimes is if some of the obstacles is something akin to different types of failure in another realm. My day job has me looking at the labour market / employment obstacles for individuals (and groups). Some of the failures include:
a. Failure to learn — sometimes structural, sometimes the wrong teacher, often a barrier unique to the individual, but whatever it is, when an opportunity presents itself, they’re not ready;
b. Failure to launch — these are often people who finish high school (or are finished with high school at least) and failed to transition into ongoing regular employment or school…they often don’t have the credentials/GED or are short in some skills or just missed an opportunity they didn’t see;
c. Failure to transition — going from one type of job to another, they fail to transition their skills from one domain to another.
etc
etc
etc
But I often wonder if that last one is like the actors. They can do one part of the job — acting — but can’t seem to handle the other part of the job i.e., preparing and handling stress outside of the moment. The skills they have in one area are not ones they capitalize in the other.
I’ve experienced the same myself, in some ways. At work, I write stuff all day long. That’s the job. It gets circulated for comment to tons of people for input/criticism/suggestions/revision. We don’t OWN our products much. But when I was at home, my personal writing? I wasn’t comfortable sharing with too many people. Until I started to blog. Now, anyone can read my stuff anytime they want. I’m not afraid to show anything to anyone. I’ve kicked out almost 2M words on my blog about tons of stuff, even extremely personal stuff I was dealing with. It’s like a personal diary online. I’m not afraid to share much these days, unless it involves other people and I’m telling their story instead of my own. Non-fiction does not phase me at all. Fiction, on the other hand, I’m not as open. I haven’t translated the skills over yet. Failure to transition, failure to capitalize, perhaps.

Comment on Business Musings: Putting Yourself Out There by Marc Meaney

Marc Meaney — Thu, 01 May 2025 02:57:04 +0000

I’ve found a motivating way to get my work out there, and that’s posting chapters, as I finish them, up on Royal Road. First drafts, full of typos, just getting it up there. The next day I do my run through of the previous day’s writing, fixing the typos, removing double words etc… I update it on Royal Road, then get the day’s chapter done, and throw it up there at the end of the night.

It’s motivating because I have eager readers wanting to read everything I write as soon as I write it. If I let things slide then I’ve a disgruntled readership. And it gets over the fear of quality and writing fast because readers love the raw drafts… and some have learned to stop at the second to last chapter to give me time to do my copy edit.

Why don’t I copy edit before I post? Because the first draft is good already. And getting the chapter out to readers is the most important thing – they’re eager for it even in an imperfect form. And on Royal Road typos are almost expected and catching them is part of the reader-writer engagement process though the comments on each chapter.

It works for me. Motivating and engaging. Try it.