Kristine Kathryn Rusch
@kristinerusch.bsky.social
Award-winning, bestselling writer and editor. Visit me at kriswrites.com
This week's Patreon post on cover design is free. Take a look. #authorsky #writersky www.patreon.com/kristinekath...
Modern Covers Versus Favorites | Kristine Kathryn Rusch
This week's Free Fiction story, "Sing," marked my first cover on any magazine. It was also the first cover for Bob Eggleton. That's his art
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Today's Free Fiction Monday story is one of the first stories I've ever sold. It's been reprinted countless times. Enjoy! #booktok #booksky kriswrites.com/2026/09/21/f...
Free Fiction Monday: Sing
One of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most famous short stories, “Sing” combines music, aliens, and first contact into an unforgettable tale of the link between research and danger. Chosen as one of the …
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Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
Any questions? Many thanks to snarkypoliticoguy (TT) for this accurate summary.
On this #Caturday, Gavin wonders why I’ve started running in the mornings again, and if I’m going to make him exercise too.
A lot of spooky & Halloween themed Kickstarters in Dean Wesley Smith’s list of KS to follow, study and/or back. Take a look! #authorsky #writersky #booksky #booktok deanwesleysmith.com/kickstarter-...
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#booksky A Cut Beyond: Twilight Zone inspired stories in two books. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...
A Cut Beyond: Twilight Zone inspired stories in two books.
The barbershop that wasn't there yesterday. File under M for Magic. Weird and fantastic stories from the wondrous land of imagination.
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Dean Wesley Smith does a cover rebranding post for his time travel western series, Thunder Mountain. Look at the ways small changes improve a cover. #authorsky #writersky deanwesleysmith.com/rebranding-c...
Rebranding Covers!
Sometimes You Do Basics and It Still Doesn’t Work The other day I took a copy of a Thunder Mountain book off my shelf and opened it. I would not be able to read it because of the font size and such we...
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, backers and supporters of the Seavy Co. Kickstarter. It ended yesterday and did so much better than we expected. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! #booksky #authorsky #writersky #booktok www.kickstarter.com/projects/a26...
Mochi Mochimons: Thank You!
ALT: Mochi Mochimons: Thank You!
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Today’s the last day of the Seavy Co. Kickstarter. We hit *all* of our stretch goals (thank you!) & now for $18, backers will get 4 novels, several short stories & 3 #writing workshops. 1/2 #booksky #authorsky #booktok #writertok www.kickstarter.com/projects/a26...
THREE FANTASY NOVELS From Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Three Fantasy Novels Set in Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Acclaimed Seavy County!
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I have an exclusive collection in this bundle as well. Lots of great reading here! #booksky #booktok
Jeannette Bedard@jeannettebedard.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm excited to be part of The 2026 Space Opera Sisterhood StoryBundle! My Wren Chronicles Books 1 and 2 along with 14 other space opera stories led by kickass heroines. #spaceopera #storybundle storybundle.com/space
This week's Patreon post looks at the importance of joy in writing. (And the other arts.) Oh! And there's an old photo of my beloved late cat Cheeps! www.patreon.com/kristinekath...
Maintain Joy (A Process Blog) | Kristine Kathryn Rusch
You’ll have to forgive me. I’m in the middle of a fight…scene. A looooong fight scene. As in the climax of the book I’ve been working on all
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If we get 4 more backers on the Seavy Co. Kickstarter, *all* backers will get an extra novel for their $18. The Death of Davy Moss is a personal fav & also set in Seavy Co! Find out more here. #booktok #booksky @kickstarter.com kriswrites.com/2026/09/13/t...
The Death of Davy Moss
I have written so many Seavy County stories that sometimes I forget which books and stories were set there. I’ve worked on this Seavy County Kickstarter all summer long, and it wasn’t u…
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An examination of 2 of the collections available in the Seavy Co. Kickstarter. Visitations is science fiction. Coastal Incidents, the largest, is filled with crime stories. (I guess in my mind, crime & the Oregon Coast go well together). 1/4 #booktok #booksky kriswrites.com/2026/09/12/o...
Other Genres in Seavy County
For the past three days, I’ve discussed the books in the Seavy County Kickstarter. I’ve only shown you dark fantasy novels, and I teased you with the possibility of other genres. Well, …
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Dean Wesley Smith’s weekly look at Kickstarters writers should study & readers should back include dragons, ghosts, dark fantasy, romance, sf, & so much more. #booksky #booktok deanwesleysmith.com/kickstarter-...
Kickstarter Friday
Some Fun Campaigns I Think Work… It is Kickstarter season again, with lots of new and fun campaigns. I’ve been doing this every Friday now for a long time. And it certainly has been fun studying Kicks...
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A second Patreon post on covers. This one includes a cover from 2010, back when almost all ebook covers had to be done on PowerPoint. (Not kidding.) Take a look! #writersky #authorsky #booksky #booktok www.patreon.com/kristinekath...
The Women of Whale Rock...Covers | Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Wow...putting this post together was a trip back into time. The newest has the Seavy County bug on it. It's a lovely cover, and it captures
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Today's post looks at The Devil's Churn, my dark fantasy novel which is one of the 3 books you'll get for the $18 reward in the Seavy Co. Kickstarter. We also hit six stretch goals so far, so you'll get more fiction & some #writing workshops. 1/2 #booksky #booktok kriswrites.com/2026/09/11/t...
The Devil’s Churn
There is a place called The Devil’s Churn on a part of the Oregon Coast we can all drive to. Is it the entrance into Seavy County, the imaginary magical part of the Oregon Coast? Maybe……
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#Writers dealing with the Anthropic settlement mess, please look at Dean Wesley Smith’s post today on works made for hire. #writersky #authorsky deanwesleysmith.com/copyright-wo...
Copyright Works Made for Hire…
Some Really Stupid Stuff Being Said… A lot to do with the Anthropic settlement. Seems you get a bunch of writers who know nothing of copyright worrying about getting money from a copyright settlement,...
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More on the books you can get in the Seavy Co. Kickstarter. Two featured today. The first is the novel, FantasyLife. The second, a collection of FantasyLife short stories. 1/4 #booktok #booksky kriswrites.com/2026/09/10/t...
The World of FantasyLife
Now that you’ve had a chance to read “The Women of Whale Rock,” you have officially entered the world of FantasyLife. You haven’t read the story? Go back to the home page an…
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A bonus Free Fiction story this week. I only had 2 Mondays to give you free Seavy Co. stories to promo the Kickstarter, so I added another. "The Women of Whale Rock" is a dark fantasy story set in the FantasyLife subseries set in Seavy Co. Enjoy! #booktok #booksky kriswrites.com/2026/09/10/b...
Bonus Free Fiction Story: The Women of Whale Rock
Strange things happen in Whale Rock. Lately, swarming gulls appear on the beach, too many of them, followed by a dead body pecked beyond recognition. Sheriff Dan Retsler knows the county coroner’s …
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More Anthropic settlement stuff: Writers are reporting that the settlement is sending emails to authors with wrongful 100% publisher claims, indicating that they are correcting these where the pub intended to claim the default, and advising authors to log in next week to confirm the update.
We hit the 6th stretch goal for the Seavy County Kickstarter! Thank you so much, backers! I’m so happy that you’ll be venturing into the magical Seavy County with me. #booksky #booktok www.kickstarter.com/projects/a26...
THREE FANTASY NOVELS From Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Three Fantasy Novels Set in Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Acclaimed Seavy County!
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The last week of the Seavy Co. Kickstarter! Time to share information about all the books you can get. Each book is set on an imaginary part of the Oregon Coast. First up, the dark fantasy novel, Façade. #booksky #booktok kriswrites.com/2026/09/09/f...
Façade
The last week of the Seavy County Kickstarter began today. For the past seven days, we’ve focused on the overall things you could get from stories to novels to workshops. The stories and nove…
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Book release day! I just released my historical novel, Consecrated Ground, in the author-preferred edition. It even has the correct title. The book originally came out in the 1990s with an awful title, which was later kept by the publisher of the reissue fifteen years ago. 1/2
Star Trek 60th anniversary. Wow. I came to ST through highly butchered reruns on a local TV station when I was in my teens. I fell in love. ST and the Apollo program solidified my love of sf. I was lucky enough to write many ST books for Paramount. My non-Trek sf career continues apace.
Since we blew through all of our stretch goals on the Seavy County Kickstarter in a week thanks to our wonderful backers, we added 3 new stretch goals. The most special goal is The Death of Davy Moss, a novel friends of mine love. #booksky #booktok www.kickstarter.com/projects/a26...
THREE FANTASY NOVELS From Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Three Fantasy Novels Set in Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Acclaimed Seavy County!
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This week's Free Fiction Monday story is an award-winning thriller set in the made-up Seavy County on the Oregon Coast. Take a look! #booksky #booktok kriswrites.com/2026/09/07/f...
Free Fiction Monday: Heroics
Maxwell Sobel writes about heroes for a living. He studies them, imagines them, imagines being them. But when a routine drive turns into a fight for his life, he must become a real hero. Or lose ev…
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Additions coming to the Seavy Co. Kickstarter. More stretch goals (since we hit all of them) & another novel! See the covers here. These will all be on the Kickstarter by tomorrow. #booktok #booksky #fantasy #romance #OregonCoast deanwesleysmith.com/cover-fun-fo...
Cover Fun for Seavy County
ADDING NEW SEAVY COUNTY AWARDS TO THE KICKSTARTER… And wow has this been fun doing covers for the new stuff for Kris’s Kickstarter. Three Fantasy Novels by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Wow, we hit all the S...
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The final post in the series on writing a series just went live. It's about organization. #writersky #authorsky www.patreon.com/kristinekath...
Organizing The Series (The Series Series Part 15) | Kristine Kathryn Rusch
In daily life, I am a planner. Being structured makes me calmer. I like to know what I’m doing on which particular day. In fact, right now,
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