Deborah Cooke: Author

Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Rome

    Fridays seem to be about Reading and Watching this year. Mr. C. and I have been watching the DVD’s of the HBO/BBC series called ROME. I just love it. Blood and guts, history and personal stakes, it’s everything I look for in historical fiction. What have you been reading or watching lately that really works…

  • Teaching Again

    It looks as if I’ll be teaching in Ottawa in April of this year. I’ll be visiting the Ottawa RWA chapter and teaching “The Business of Writing”. They have a terrific chapter there, and it’s always a treat to visit Ottawa. It’s such a pretty city. I’m looking forward to it — even though Ottawa’s…

  • Residency Closing Reception

    Remember I told you about the Closing Reception for my residency at the Toronto Public Library this fall? We had a panel discussion with an editor and an agent. Well, here’s a photo of the three of us, before the festivities began: That’s Brenda Chin, Senior Editor at Harlequin Blaze on the left, me in…

  • A Wonderful Read

    Why is it that no matter how extensive your T.B.R. (To Be Read) pile is, no matter how high and how wide, it always seems deficient once you dig into it? I had a great reading month in December, and made a serious dent in my T.B.R. pile, but still. There was a lot left…

  • Book Distribution – IV

    Today, we’ll talk about the implications of all of these changes for authors. • Visibility I could maybe have called this “accountability” but that seems a bit extreme. The change here is that what authors do, and what they say, can have greater implications than was once the case. Part of this is because what…