My Writing and Personal News and Reviews and critiques and fiction and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 11 Jul 2010
I made it through a week of anticipation and was rewarded with good comments from literary agent, Sara Megibow of the Nelson Agency in Denver, Colorado. She didn’t soft pedal it either. After a lively and direct presentation on the realities of the business of publishing, how to go about finding and landing an agent, [...]
My Writing and Personal News and fiction and news and reading and writing Sue Campbell on 30 Jun 2010
No, that’s not an April Fool’s joke this time.
Something exciting is happening for me. My prologue and first chapter were chosen to be read and reviewed by an agent at the next meeting of my writers group!
I’m pretty excited about it, but not expecting much. What I mean is I’m not getting my hopes up. [...]
My Writing and author and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 13 Jun 2010
Like writing? Like Flash Fiction? (Flash is anything under 1,000 words.) Like vampires? It’s all coming together at the VampireKissed website. Author Devin O’Branagan is holding a flash fiction contest. You must use the words “vampire kissed” in your story’s title, and use the vampire theme in the story. Writing a complete story in 1,000 [...]
author and fiction Sue Campbell on 09 May 2010
My friend Devin’s book Glory is getting attention from a number of groups, the Twilight Moms, Aussie Shepherd fanciers and other authors. Here’s an interview with Devin by author Katrina L. Lantz.
Opinon and Trapdoor Books and art and author and bookcover and bookcovers and case studies and covers and critiques and design and fiction and marketing and new work Sue Campbell on 05 May 2010
After a hiatus that means I’m busy… I’m showing of some of my latest covers in the next few posts.
I love covers. I love the results, and I love the process. But I gotta tell ya, sometimes it’s painful. If you’re a writer/author I know you’ve heard (or lived through) horror stories about how “that [...]
author and bookcover and bookcovers and books and covers and design and fiction and new work Sue Campbell on 23 Apr 2010
I’m so pleased for my friend Devin O’Branagan, whose new book Glory just debuted. It’s getting good reviews! It has everything the teen reader wants in a book, a spunky heroine, a sexy vampire, hot guardian angel, and new agey girl witch. Chock full of action, teen angst, bad guys, good goths, and pandemic plagues, [...]
My Writing and Personal News and author and books and dreaming and fiction and publishing and silliness Sue Campbell on 01 Apr 2010
I am bursting with pride to report that I finally finished my young adult novel, I Got My First Kiss in a Bomb Shelter, AND I signed with Writer’s House. Within a week, my debut novel was sold to Street Cred a brand new division for YA at Random House. I am simply speechless with the [...]
My Writing and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 20 Mar 2010
The kind that make you smack yourself in the head.
I’ve been struggling with the middle of my YA novel for a very long time. That and plotting. My plotting was more like plodding. My story is set in the middle of the past century. The lead up to the cold war plays an integral part [...]
Nanowrimo and art and bookcover and bookcovers and books and color and covers and critiques and design and fiction and publishing Sue Campbell on 08 Feb 2010
The third book in the cover contest gets posted today! Which one do you pick?
Nanowrimo and bookcover and bookcovers and covers and design and fiction and publishing Sue Campbell on 02 Jan 2010
Nanowrimo Cover Contest Winners Announced!
