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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Personal blog · kriswrites.comwritingbusinesscareer
Kristine Kathryn Rusch's personal blog at kriswrites.com covers writing, business and career. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Kristine Kathryn Rusch's posts on the publishing business, including hiring editors and the difference between copyediting and editing. Comments also touch on freelancing and pricing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Pricing your self is just one aspect of being a successful freelancer. There is a lot of other stuff that you have got to keep in mind including: client satisfaction, getting paid on time(or at all!), finding new clients, letting go of existing clients, dealing with failure etc One of the books that has really helped me and the one which I refer to constantly is "thefreelancery" by walt kania [1] Give it a read. I a…
Comment linking /freelancers-survival-guide-table-of-contents/
on “Ask HN: How to price yourself?”Submitted The Business Rusch: Royalty Statements (e-books and the publishing industry) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe smart ones hire line and copy editors. Development editors, however, are pretty much impossible to hire effectively: http://kriswrites.com/2013/01/30/the-business-rusch-hiring-e... .
Comment linking /2013/01/30/the-business-rusch-hiring-editors
on “Why I don't self-publish”Submitted Royalty Statements (writer says publishers underreporting ebook sales) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Copyediting != editing" Sort of; see http://kriswrites.com/2013/01/30/the-business-rusch-hiring-e... and http://kriswrites.com/2013/01/23/the-business-rusch-editoria... .
Comment linking /2013/01/23/the-business-rusch-editorial-revisions/
on “A footnote about the publishing industry”