Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Free Fiction Monday: Stomping Mad

When a dead body turns up at the first ever Dinocon, Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade knows just who might be behind it all: Lucinda Danielle Stanhope who calls herself the Martha Stewart of Science Fiction. Now he just has to prove it. “Stomping Mad,” by New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. […]

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Some Great Reading Ahead

WMG has put together a starter kit for Dean’s fiction. You can get the first story/book in ten of his series through the Kickstarter at every award level. I love these books, particularly the Cold Poker Gang series (which is WMG’s bestselling series) for mystery fans and The Earth Protection League for sf fans. If you already love some of the series, you can find […]

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Business Musings: Patreon Changes And Me

To get a free A.I. audio version of this blog, click here. I did not expect to spend the past two days working on Patreon. I mean, I planned on updating my Patreon page sometime in the future. As I wrote in the Year in Review post about advertising, much of what I had been doing had grown stale. I knew that, with the changes […]

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Free Fiction Monday: The City’s Edge

To cope with his wife’s death, Petras must come to terms with the reality of it. He needs to see her body, visit the place where she died…understand why she died. But the closer Petras gets to the place Hedie died, the more questions he faces—questions that might destabilize everything Petras thinks he knows. “The City’s Edge” by Hugo Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is […]

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Business Musings: The Importance of Ship Size (Yes, This Is Related to AI Audio)

To get a free AI -generated audio version of this blog, click here.   Dean has a phrase that he uses often, especially when he’s teaching. He says writers have to give themselves time to turn the ship. By this, he usually means that writers need to change their thinking, and that takes time. He also uses it for businesses. If you have a small […]

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Awards, Stories, and a Cool Italian Cover

First, some really exciting news! The Courtmartial of the Renegat Renegades is a finalist for the Asimov’s Readers Choice Awards in the novella category, and “Rocket Girls,” is up for best novelette! I’m really thrilled. (And super thrilled about Rocket Girls, since it’s a personal favorite). The other writers in my category are amazing, from Rick Wilber, Sean Monaghan, and Nick Wolven in the novella […]

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Free Fiction Monday: Fashion and the Snarkmeisters

Caro, once considered the most beautiful woman in the world, had a daughter with a relatively ugly magician. Caro’s daughter, unfortunately, inherited her father’s looks—and his magic. She uses that magic to help protect her beautiful mother, and famous women like her, from the snarkmeisters on red carpets everywhere. But the snarkmeisters pale in comparison to the darker magic driving them—a magic that thrives on […]

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Business Musings: The Research (Part Two) AI Audio

Full disclaimer here: I wrote longer pieces on my Patreon page and combined them together for this post. There’s a lot of learning and dithering there, as well as a fairly mediocre audio sample that you can hear if you want to join up. I wrote those pieces in the moment, so I’m reprinting them here without changing that “in the moment” feel. I have […]

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Free Fiction Monday: The Impossibles

To pay off her law school debts, Kerrie works in the public defender’s office at the Interspecies Court. Her workload includes more clients than she can defend, most of them from cultures she does not understand. The public defender’s office loses almost all of its cases, but sometimes it gets a win. Kerrie thinks she has a winner. But does she? Or will winning the […]

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Thank You!

Thank you, everyone, for supporting the Kickstarter for The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades. Thanks to all the backers and to everyone who shared information about the Kickstarter. I’m so pleased that so many of you helped out! I hauled out the staff at Promotion Central to say thanks as well. They usually do their promotions on Facebook, but I figured they could move over […]

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