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Marcy Campbell

Obligatory Contemplative Post-Book-Sale Blog Post

September 21, 2016 By Marcy Campbell 4 Comments

Obligatory Contemplative Post-Book-Sale Blog Post

My debut picture book, “Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse,” sold to Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers last week. There’s a period at the end of that sentence, though there should probably be 25 exclamation points. But that was last week, and like all human creatures, I’ve adapted to this incredible good news and […]

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: Book Sales

What To Do When Your Book Is On Submission

September 3, 2016 By Marcy Campbell 2 Comments

What To Do When Your Book Is On Submission

My picture book is on submission! What does that mean? Well, this is the phase when you’ve signed with a super duper agent (see previous post), you’ve made any edits to your manuscript that the agent suggests and then the agent submits your book to a list of editors at various publishing houses who he […]

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: Submissions

How I Got My Agent

August 30, 2016 By Marcy Campbell 8 Comments

How I Got My Agent

This is the post I’ve been wanting to write for nearly a decade, the post where I tell you I am officially represented. Sounds very serious, doesn’t it? It is very serious. I have signed with literary agent Steven Malk at Writers House, and though it’s been a couple weeks now, I still wake up […]

Filed Under: The Business of Writing Tagged With: agents, Querying

Book Art

August 17, 2016 By Marcy Campbell Leave a Comment

Book Art

So sorry I’ve been missing from this blog all summer. I’ve been busy–hanging out with my kids, attending a lengthy writing conference (more on that later), oh, and building a playground! Cool pics of that here. The kids are returning to school next week, and so I plan to return to my *weekly posts. In […]

Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: book art, collage

Sparking Joy, in The Closet

May 3, 2016 By Marcy Campbell Leave a Comment

Sparking Joy, in The Closet

There’s been a lot of organizing talk on the old Internet lately, both fawning and less-so, regarding the bestselling book, “Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo. I have not read it. I’ve never picked up a book on organizing because I feel like I […]

Filed Under: Decorating Tagged With: bedroom, closet

Filling the Well

April 4, 2016 By Marcy Campbell 1 Comment

Filling the Well

“Filling the Well” is a phrase I first encountered many years ago in Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist’s Way.” It’s a concept for writers that’s quite simple to grasp, harder to accomplish. It simply refers to having new experiences, getting out into the world, seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting new things so that you can […]

Filed Under: Writing and Editing Tagged With: Idea Genera, Idea Generation

Agent Querying in 12 Easy Steps

March 11, 2016 By Marcy Campbell 3 Comments

So, the agent querying process…it’s not fun. It’s full of both maniacally happy peaks and soul crushing valleys, often on the same day. I would rather do anything else. I would certainly much rather be writing. This is the main reason writers work so hard to get an agent. So they can focus on the […]

Filed Under: The Business of Writing Tagged With: agents, Querying

Word Girl

March 3, 2016 By Marcy Campbell Leave a Comment

Word Girl

Marking the entrance to my closet office: Now, if only I had a monkey sidekick…

Filed Under: Decorating

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