art and bookcovers and covers and design and inspiring and publishing and websites of note and writing Sue Campbell on 29 Jan 2009
So my readers, all three of you will notice I’ve deleted some pages that have just been placeholders since starting this blog in October of 2008. I will be moving the site to WordPress.org in a few months or sooner perhaps. I’ve never filled those pages as I soon realized the limitations of [...]
bookcover and bookcovers and books and covers and design and marketing and news and publishing and reading and writing Sue Campbell on 28 Jan 2009
Today, the New York Times published an article by Motoko Rich entitled “Self-publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab.” It’s a pretty realistic look at a new world in publishing. Below is my opinion on this situation.
It had to happen, critical mass has been reached. That, and the model practiced by major (mainly New York) [...]
books and publishing Sue Campbell on 26 Jan 2009
I attended the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards ceremony January 23rd in Denver. One of Stephen’s Press’ books, Ensoñsación el Jardín de Sueños (Dreamygirl’s Field of Wishes) won a gold medal for best Spanish language picturebook. Since I live here in Colorado, and the book’s author Jorge Betancourt Polanco wasn’t able to come I came instead. [...]
art and design Sue Campbell on 22 Jan 2009
I haven’t blogged about design in a long time. Here are a couple of good design blogs I’ve just run across. First i Love typography is a blog about typography! It’s lovely, simple clean and a great source for font ideas and design ideas also. This guy knows his fonts! Play the font game! (I’m [...]
websites of note and writing Sue Campbell on 20 Jan 2009
According to Todd, who bestowed the pass along award on me, the award “Dardos” appreciates the merits – culturally, literary and individually – of every blogger who expresses him/herself on his/her blog.
Thanks, again, to everyone who reads this blog and comments. I appreciate it!
Now then, the rules of Premio Dardos:
1. be tickled pink
2. [...]
writing Sue Campbell on 13 Jan 2009
Cory Doctorow is a well-known, and celebrated young sci-fi author. I don’t know if it’s comforting to know that writers we admire, and who are successfully churning out great work — and regularly — also struggle with the same time issues and distraction problems that we amateurs do. (Internet.)
Doctorow has some good advice for dealing [...]
Uncategorized and writing Sue Campbell on 11 Jan 2009
OK, THIS is pretty funny: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/reblock-yourself
Hmm, I posted this with BlogIt from Facebook and it posted it 6 times! Yikes. Plus you can’t tag or categorize the posts. Not so useful, that.
inspiring and poetry and writing Sue Campbell on 06 Jan 2009
I just read in PW about a new comic book based on the “missed connections” ads you see on Craigslist and in the newspapers. Curious, I just looked at some of those ads on Craigslist. Some are hilarious, some are poignant, some are like poetry. Like this one here. Line breaks are mine [...]
bookcovers and books and marketing and websites of note Sue Campbell on 04 Jan 2009
Does anybody use LibraryThing? Well, I know over 500,000 people are signed up, but does anybody here reading this use it? I signed up as a user back in July of 07, and then promptly forgot about it. The idea of entering all my books manually just seemed overwhelming. But now I see that they [...]
