Trapdoor Books and art and bookcover and bookcovers and books and case studies and covers and design and fiction and new work Sue Campbell on 29 Oct 2009
Here’s a new project I’ve been working on: The Magician of Lhasa is a novel, which will debut in November 09. The publisher, Trapdoor Books in Lyons, Colorado is just up the road from where I live in Longmont. It’s exciting to see them getting this venture off the ground and I was pleased to [...]
Nanowrimo and bookcovers and writing Sue Campbell on 28 Oct 2009
All right, I am going to do Nanowrimo next month too! I started to feel guilty about offering prizes to the rest of you Nanowrimo-ers(?) when I wasn’t even giving it a try. So I signed up, and I will be attempting to add words to a novel I’ve fallen off track with. I know [...]
Nanowrimo and bookcover and bookcovers and covers and writing Sue Campbell on 26 Oct 2009
Nanowrimo cover contest! Enter here to win a free cover design.
Nanowrimo and inspiring and writing Sue Campbell on 23 Oct 2009
So November is just around the corner. It’s Nanowrimo time! National Novel Writing Month, when against the odds, people write 50,000 words in one month to create a novel length work. From scratch. Fifty thousand words in 30 days equals 1600 words a day. In addition to whatever writing your day job might require, plus [...]
art and miscellany and silliness Sue Campbell on 13 Oct 2009
This is just coolest video I’ve ever seen. Left me speechless. And entertained.
miscellany and news and silliness and weather Sue Campbell on 08 Oct 2009
Snow. It’s already stopped. You saw it. It fell, in October. Right on time for Colorado. Happy Halloween!
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 [...]
blogging and news and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 02 Oct 2009
I and my publisher Carolyn Uber have been invited to speak next year at the East of Eden Writers Conference in Salinas California. That’s Steinbeck country, and the conference is named for his famous novel. The conference is sponsored by the South Bay chapter of the 100 year old California Writers Club.
I’ll be speaking on [...]
