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, [...]
Quotes of note and author and dreaming and inspiring and silliness Sue Campbell on 08 Apr 2010
With apologies for yanking this from her site. The life of a stay-at-home book designer is remarkably similar to that of a bestselling author. Who knew?
Janet Evanovich, what is your work day really like?
I drag myself out of bed around six, shove myself into the clothes laying on the floor and plod down the road [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Quotes of note and author and books and reading Sue Campbell on 13 Jul 2009
My favorite quote of the day:
People aren’t reading books so much. They text and Twitter and Google a lot—anxiety reading—but they’re too jumpy for books.
—George Dawes Green
Mr. Greens novel, Ravens is due out this week. I know nothing about it. But I like the cover.
author and books and covers and design and marketing and publishing and websites of note Sue Campbell on 15 Jun 2009
A couple of weeks back wrote about a new online promotion resource for authors called Filedby.com. At the time they advertised that they would allow “contributors” to also create a page to showcase their works. I created a page for myself, but found I could not add the books on which I had contributed design [...]
author and blogging and books and marketing and publishing and reading and websites of note Sue Campbell on 29 May 2009
A new directory of authors went live in March 2009. Filedby.com Is organized to promote authors not individual titles. In a recent press release from Filedby.Inc of Nashville, TN, the company says:
