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 [...]
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 [...]
bookcover and bookcovers and books and covers and design and new work and publishing Sue Campbell on 06 Aug 2009
I’m in the final throes of completing a 256 page historical/pictorial on 100 Years in the Nevada Governor’s Mansion. The book debuts at the mansion in a special event on September 12th! Yep, you read that right. So that’s why I’ve been silent here—and moaning, yelling, and otherwise making freaky noises in the home office. [...]
My Writing and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 09 Jul 2009
I was closing up my office on a Friday night after a week that had been deader than the roaches in that six-month-old Roach Motel under my desk. I was looking forward to a brewsky at my local pub, like Santa looks forward to New Year’s Eve, when she walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs…. Read this story that uses all the worst high school creative writing metaphors and then some!
author and books and case studies and dreaming and dreams and inspiring and publishing and reading and writing Sue Campbell on 24 Feb 2009
Today I’m beginning an interview with author Betty Auchard. Betty’s first book, Dancing in My Nightgown, the Rhythms of Widowhood is her memoir of losing her husband of 49 years, getting through the grief, and learning to live again—in a whole new way. Far from being a morose downer, Betty’s stories are touching, inspiring, upbeat, [...]
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 [...]
