Deborah Cooke: Author

Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Digital Formatting

    I promised yesterday that I’d talk a bit more today about formatting for digital books. Here we go! In the past, I have followed the Smashwords Style Guide to format my own Word DOC files. This is picky work, but it’s not that hard – it just takes time when you have old files that…

  • New EPUB Editions

    This winter, I decided to have my digital files professionally formatted, so that they would be prettier than ever. As the number of devices multiplied – and the generations in use of each specific device increased – it was becoming harder to ensure that the book looked good for every reader. I was feeling a…

  • Time for Chaos

    I told you a while back that we’d be having renovations done at the house this year, and they’ve started today. This means noise and dust, at least in the short term. It means worker guys in the house, too, and the Queen Bee getting miffed about them coming in and out without ringing the…

  • Nook Gook

    It appears that my Claire Delacroix books have issues in their Nook editions, available from B&N. Some readers have posted complaints that the books are blank, which certainly isn’t what they thought they were buying! The Nook PubIt interface has been very glitchy since the beginning of December, when Nook sales were opened to the…

  • Portals and Publishing Plans

    It’s a new year and a whole new challenge in the Wild West of indie-publishing. Algorithms are on the move and have been changing over the past month in particular, which means that we indie-authors need to try some new marketing strategies. First off, FREE is working less well at all portals. This makes a…