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 art and bookcover and bookcovers and books and color and covers and critiques and design Sue Campbell on 05 Feb 2010
I’m enjoying the discussions of the covers for Breath. The interesting thing about cover design is that it’s largely subjective. What appeals to people is depends on their backgrounds, their preferred genres, their cultures, education, socio-economic level, and gender among other things. With all the variables it’s a wonder we can agree on anything! But [...]
Nanowrimo and art and bookcover and bookcovers and color and covers and critiques and design and new work and writing Sue Campbell on 03 Feb 2010
First let me apologize once again for how long it’s taken me to get these underway. All kinds of things just conspired against me having any time to work on them. Paying work has to come first, because, this is my job after all. Writing and holding contests are just my hobby! So here goes.
These [...]
Design tips and Mac and art and bookcover and bookcovers and books and color and covers and critiques and design and inspiring and interview and marketing and publishing Sue Campbell on 15 Jan 2010
OK, no sponsors. It’s just me.
I know that my three contest winners are waiting anxiously for their covers. And um… I haven’t had much time to devote to them yet. I’m at the research and “noodling” stage. Next comes “doodling,” but we mustn’t short change the noodle part. Though there’s nothing concrete to show for [...]
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, [...]
Uncategorized and art and color and design Sue Campbell on 29 Oct 2008
I like to think that as a designer my color acuity is fairly accurately attuned. Well, it is pretty close. I got a 16 with zero being a perfect score. Try it! click the link to Test Your Color I.Q. My results are shown below. What’s yours?
