Deborah Cooke: Author

Month: October 2007

  • Trick or TREAT?

    If it’s Halloween – and it is – we have to have a contest. KISS OF FIRE is the first book in my new trilogy featuring dragon shape shifter heroes. These are contemporary fantasy romances with a bit of a dark twist. Click HERE for the back cover copy and all that good stuff. What’s…

  • The Good, the Bad…

    and the Unread blog is posting a Halloween Spooktacular Event. From October 29 through the 31st, various authors will make Halloween-related posts and you can win prizes from those authors. I’ve contributed a fun post on what I’d like to be on Halloween (hint: it has something to do with snagging my own dragon shape…

  • Wait for the Midnight Hour

    Well, you don’t have to stay up that late. I’ll be guest-blogging all day today at Michelle Rowan’s blog, The Midnight Hour. I’ve written a blog post about author pseudonyms and why authors use them. There’s a chance for you to share your thoughts and we’ll draw a winner of an ARC of KISS OF…

  • Brain Magic

    The brain is an incredible machine, but one that (unfortunately) doesn’t come with a user’s manual. We have to figure out things for ourselves. Here’s a neat brain trick that maybe you don’t know. It’s useful for problem solving. When you’re trying to solve a problem or a riddle or come up with a creative…

  • Another Race to the Finish

    I can never figure this out: no matter how many times I write a book and no matter how steadily I work away at that book, I invariably realize in the last 48 hours before delivery that there is far too much left to be written in the time available. I always have this frantic…