Most people become freelancers without any idea of how to run a business. They learn in the school of hard knocks. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has taken the school of hard knocks and made it into one of the most useful business books written in years. Experts consider Rusch's book the bible for the self-employed.

New Third Edition.

Not many people understand the publishing business as well as the author business—Kris Rusch is one of them. Her Freelancer's Survival Guide is balanced, ambitious, and packed with information that all writers, editors, and publishers should read.

Kevin J. Anderson,

New York Times bestselling author

I wish The Freelancer's Survival Guide had existed when I was first starting out, but better late than never. Kristine Kathryn Rusch still knows twice what I do about writing and publishing. Good thing she's put all her wisdom down in a book so I can start stealing some of it.

Steve Hockensmith,

New York Times bestselling author