Deborah Cooke: Author

Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Red Door Reads

    One of the fun things that happens at NINC is meeting up with some friends, and catching up on their news. This year, I was talking with Claudia Dain and Deb Marlowe. (Okay, we were in the Tiki Bar and there were drinks on the table!) I knew they had started Red Door Reads a…

  • Showcase at The Reading Frenzy

    Debbie at The Reading Frenzy has showcased the audio edition of The Renegade’s Heart on her blog this week, because she loved the audio so much. Here are a few snippets from her comments: “The narration provided by Saskia Maarleveld is marvelous, her melodious voice is the perfect instrument to portray all the characters females…

  • Amazon and Reviews

    Another thing I learned last week at NINC involves posting reviews at Amazon. Many of us have noticed – or been notified of – reviews being removed from the Amazon website, because Amazon perceives that the reviewer and the author know each other. This is obviously an effort to keep people from abusing the review…

  • The Amazon Trifecta

    Amazon was in attendance at the Novelists’ Inc conference last week, and they mentioned again several programs of theirs. I know about these, but you might not. They’re excellent programs and bear revisiting. What’s cool about these two programs is that they come out of Amazon’s understanding that readers like to have their books in…

  • eReadLocal at Kobo US

    Here’s a wonderful promotion that I learned about while at NINC, which is available to those of you in the US. Kobo wants to encourage you to shop at indie bookstores, many of which sell Kobo e-reading devices. eRead Local also is a drive to get more readers to sign up for Kobo accounts. Here’s…