Apple and books and ebooks and reading and writing Sue Campbell on 08 Sep 2010
My sister, publisher Carolyn Hayes Uber, reminded me in this post of the joys of rare antique books. I look for them too when I can, but how will we collect when there are only ebooks? They can’t be rare then, because they are infinite in the numbers of copies that can exist. Makes me [...]
blogging Sue Campbell on 23 Aug 2010
There are times when I want to delete my blog, erase my emails (that honestly are mostly junk), erase my facebook, pretend I’ve never heard of Twitter. Social networking seems like the furthest thing from sociability there could be. All of this is distracting me from reading, writing, and working on design that I really [...]
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 [...]
Reviews and books and marketing and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 10 Jun 2010
Alrighty so here’s my review. It didn’t take long to read this book. It’s a conversational, enjoyable read. As business books go I’d give it a B+. That said, it’s worth reading. The company follows through on it’s promise to WOW customers through great customer service. In fact when they told me I’d get an [...]
Reviews and blogging and books and case studies and marketing and publishing and reading and writing Sue Campbell on 06 Jun 2010
So there’s book promotion, and there’s book promotion. Here’s what may be a, pardon the pun, novel approach to crowd-sourcing your book promotion. First, have deep pockets, because it involves sending out a lot of free books. Next, be patient for the ground swell of momentum to catch up to your book selling efforts. Come [...]
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 [...]
Quotes of note and dreaming and inspiring and writing Sue Campbell on 27 Apr 2010
April 23, 2010, was the 100th anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, [...]
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 [...]
