Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an internationally best-selling author and award winning editor. She won a Hugo as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and was the first female editor in that magazine's storied history. Along with husband Dean Wesley Smith, Kris is series editor for the bimonthly anthology magazine, Fiction River. As an author, she is the recipient of the Anlab, the Analog Magazine reader award for best science fiction short story of the year, and she is a two-time Shamus award finalist in the mystery field. Kris is the author of the Anniversary Day Saga, a mini-series inside the larger Retrieval Artist series, and under Kristine Grayson, she's the author of three novels in her Interim Fates series. Kris also writes a weekly blog about the state of the publishing industry, kriswrites.com. Her blog entries are also collected in several volumes of The Write Attitude. She's the author of Discoverability, a go-to book for writers on marketing their work, and Freelancer's Survival Guide, considered a bible for freelance writers of all stripes.