Deborah Cooke: Author

Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Comics

    Do you have a favourite comic strip? I always loved The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes, neither of which are being drawn any longer. One strip I’ve been enjoying lately is Pearls Before Swine, especially this week as Rat takes a job in publishing. 1. Rat takes an editing job. 2. Rat tackles the…

  • Whole Lotta Rafe

    Guess what landed on my porch last week? Just look: Advanced Reading Copies of GUARDIAN! They’ve all gone out in the mail now, on their merry way to reviewers far and wide. It is fun to see them all together, though, and play with them a bit before they head out to do their job.…

  • Down Below

    I’ve been reading underground books again lately – or more accurately, books about underground spaces – and might have found a few you don’t know about. Those of you who have hung around Alive & Knitting for a while know about my fascination with underground spaces. It might come from the fact that I grew…

  • FINALIST!

    I just heard the news – FALLEN is a finalist in the RWA FF&P chapter‘s PRISM award, in the Futuristic category! This is very exciting news, and I’m quite excited to have finalled. the winners of the PRISMs will be announced at The Gathering – the FF&P chapter’s mini conference – at RWA National, in…

  • Agency

    Social historians often talk about “agency”, by which they mean the power of a certain type of person in a certain society to influence his or her circumstances. Does a peasant woman in 12th century southern France have agency? Can she get rid of an abusive husband? Can she improve her material conditions? Can she…