Deborah Cooke: Author

Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, Columbus Day in the U.S. Either way, I hope you have the day off work and something delicious planned for dinner. We had our turkey dinner on Saturday, so we have leftovers – which I actually enjoy more. 🙂 Count your blessings and have a good day.

  • Visit from Sylvia Day

    Please welcome my friend, Sylvia Day, to Alive & Knitting today. Sylvia is another one of those accomplished, smart and funny women I’ve been so lucky to meet through RWA. One of my fave activities at conf is to settle in – preferably with a glass of wine! – for a good long chat with…

  • Balance

    For today’s writing and publishing post, I thought I’d talk a bit about balance. A writer’s life is a balancing act, as most people’s lives are. There are tasks that must be done on time, chores that have to be completed regularly and there is the joyous part of doing what we do best. But…

  • Visit from Julianne Maclean

    Today my guest is Julianne Maclean. I’m not even sure when I met Julianne the first time – it might have been when I was the keynote speaker at the Marshlands RWA conference in Moncton NB in 1998. Either way, it’s been a while. Julianne is every bit as charming and gracious and just plain…

  • Revising Reverted Works

    Last week, in my post Widgets and Books, I was talking about the art of scheduling the writing of a book. I talked about the need for authors to figure out when they’re going to be finished a work before they start writing it, so that the book can be scheduled for production at the…