Deborah Cooke: Author

What a wild month this has been for me. Sorry to have become a sporadic poster, but it’s been crazy. It seems that every time I turn around, a new job needing to be done lands in my real mailbox or my virtual one. Lots of good things happening – and some routine ones – but I don’t have anything to show you, yet.

I didn’t even finish my KAL socks! (I’m turning the heel on the second one.)

I do have the cover art for GUARDIAN (Delacroix angels #2 – October 2009), for example, but can’t show it to you until April 1. And I just saw the cover art for WINTER KISS (Cooke Dragonfire #5 – coming November 2009), but don’t have a date that I’m allowed to share it just yet. The sales team is in charge of this process, and we want them to be happy. I’ll show both to you as soon as possible – but rest assured, they are fantastic covers. (Wow!) The excerpts are ready to be uploaded to my sites whenever the covers are cleared for public viewing – which means I’ve been doing a lot of web stuff, but none of it is there for you yet.

I’m also finishing a vampire romance short story for an anthology – called THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRE ROMANCE II, or LOVE BITES in the UK. My contribution still needs an ending and a title, but March 1 isn’t quite here yet, is it? Evidently these books move very quickly into print – i.e. they don’t take a year in production like my other books do – so I should have some information for you soon. The first of these vampire anthos came out last summer in trade and has 24 short stories in it. THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRE ROMANCE is quite the sampler pack of vampire romance authors, and I was excited to be invited to participate in the second one. I’ve never written a vampire romance, but I had an idea as soon as the editor contacted me, so it must be kismet.

At any rate, February has disappeared, with lots of work happening behind the scenes. March will probably look busy, as all of those bits of work become visible to you. I’ll keep you updated as I get clearance for showing covers, and publication info becomes available on the anthology.