Apple and Design tips and Mac and Opinon and critiques and design Sue Campbell on 11 Jun 2010
Okay Apple, now I am mad.I just previewed the Adobe product Flash Catalyst. I can understand now why they were so upset when you invited them to leave off developing for the iPhone and iPad. I and many thousands of other DESIGNERS (i.e. not DEVELOPERS) have been waiting patiently for a product which would allow [...]
Opinon and blogging and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 06 Jun 2010
For those two or three of you still following this here sometime blog: I have not died. I have been writing, reading, working on book design, gardening, and otherwise having a life. It’s all good, really. The blog sadly gets short shrift when living takes priority—come to think of it—turn off that computer and get [...]
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 [...]
Opinon and author and books and news and publishing Sue Campbell on 10 Feb 2010
Here is a link to a really great explanation of why it does take so long for a book to get released from the traditional publisher. This post by Jay Lake, author with Macmillan about all the steps from both his POV and the publisher’s. Twenty six months! That’s a long, long time. But you’ll [...]
Opinon and books and news and publishing and video Sue Campbell on 22 Jan 2010
I’m not a fan of so-called vanity publishing. But I don’t object to self-publishing, or even partner publishing. There is a place for all kinds of publishing. What I do object to is deceptive practices that some service providers either explicitly promise successful outcomes, or allow their clients to believe. Every would be author has [...]
Opinon and news Sue Campbell on 08 Oct 2009
An interlude from the posts on writing and design, to write about life.
Remember that scene in The Graduate when the middle-aged man leans in and tells Dustin Hoffman sotto voce, “Plastics.” Our generation, the kids who like the graduate came of age in the sixties, were listening. In the seventies some of us started to [...]
Opinon and art and bookcover and bookcovers and color and covers and design and marketing and new work Sue Campbell on 04 Sep 2009
A new memoir, A New Day by Dora Barilla, has just been published by Stephens press. Here is the winning cover, by yours truly (of course).
But how did we get to this cover? This wasn’t the initial direction that the author and publisher wanted for this powerfully written story of one firefighter’s terrible accident, [...]
My Writing and Opinon and fiction and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 18 Jul 2009
A quick poll in the absence of time and a better idea … vote by commenting.
1. Do you think it is harder or easier to win a writing contest or to get an acceptance by submitting a piece to an appropriate lit pub? (I’m broadly generalizing about any contest.)
2. Have you ever entered a contest, [...]
Opinon and Quotes of note and Reviews and books and news and publishing and reading Sue Campbell on 15 Jul 2009
Recently on PW’s online an article about the wildly popular subject of zombies in pop culture, and fiction in particular, was um, chewed on by writer Stefan Dziemianowicz. It prompted me to think about why it is we tend to want more and more of the same thing, over and over and over….
… the zombie [...]
