Deborah Cooke: Author

Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Strange Doings in Distribution

    I heard through the grapevine that books published by Macmillan – the parent company of St. Martin’s Press and TOR, among others – had been removed from Amazon.com. Sure enough, my TOR titles (FALLEN and GUARDIAN) are still listed there, but the books are available from third party vendors. Isn’t that weird? It’s especially odd…

  • A Strike Against Piracy

    This is an amazing story. Such a simple strategy that many people (obviously) didn’t think of it, but a very effective one. Check out this post at Novelists Inc.

  • Rosamunde is Available

    That sounds funny, doesn’t it? But the fact remains that the MAMMOTH BOOK OF IRISH ROMANCE is available for sale, and within that anthology is my short story “The Ballad of Rosamunde”, which tells of Rosamunde’s escape from Faerie (where I shamelessly abandoned her in THE ROSE RED BRIDE) and her H.E.A. I haven’t seen…

  • That Time Again

    Over the past few days, there’s been a recurring theme in my conversations with other writers. Lots of them are struggling with getting that “spark”, or with finding the passion to write, or just getting to it amidst the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. And I have been recommending to these friends that they…

  • The P-Word

    Are romance novels pornography? Are the sex scenes in romance novels pornographic? I heard the p-word again recently, and it shouldn’t have surprised me. I never engage with other people over the p-word, and today we’re going to talk about why. My main reason is that the p-word carries a tremendous emotional charge. It’s a…