Deborah Cooke: Author

I thought it might be a good idea to start a weekly update post, to let you know about all the things happening behind the scenes. It’s been feeling very busy in my office lately, though there isn’t always a lot to show for that. We’ll talk about my progress each week instead.

One great thing is that I’m writing again. I decided to work on Just For Tonight as it had progressed the furthest of all my working projects. I’m really enjoying Mackenzie and Jake’s story, and am hoping it will be ready for publication in a month or so. Once it’s gone to be edited, I’ll create a pre-order for it at the portals, probably for July. (Fingers crossed.)

Then I’ll be talking to the dragons again. I think Dragon’s Wolf will be the next project that I tackle, though I have a feeling that it and Kiss of Twilight will need to be developed simultaneously.

I’ve also been working on the reformatting and repackaging of the Dragonfire Novels. This has been a huge project. I started in September with the designer and they were mostly done by January, then I had to format interiors and update the books to the printer. All eleven books will be available in trade paperback and jacketed hardcover in these new editions, which will be coming to retail portals in December 2026.

You can also order your copies early in my online store. The first two sets of three are listed there now. The first set will ship in June and the second set will ship in July.

This week, I finished uploading Serpent’s Kiss and Firestorm Forever. The twelfth book with this branding is the world guide, Here Be Dragons, which I’m still working on. (Reformatting it changed the page count, so the cover files need to be adjusted.) I’m waiting on a lot of print proofs, both trade paperback and hardcover, and once everything is here and right, I’ll make a video to show you the books.

The covers on the ebooks will change in December at the portals. You can order the ebooks with the new covers early in my online store, as well.

This summer, we’ll also repackage Flatiron Five Fitness with illustrated covers. I’m pretty excited about that!

I had planned to launch the new editions of the Dragonfire Novels at Kickstarter, but have changed my mind about that. They’ll be launched through my online store instead.

The next campaign I’ll do at Kickstarter will be for Kiss of Twilight in those pretty editions. I suspect it will launch in 2027. You can follow the campaign here to be notified when it launches.

That’s all the news for this week!