Author: Deborah Cooke

  • Hurry Up & Wait

    What a wild month this has been for me. Sorry to have become a sporadic poster, but it’s been crazy. It seems that every time I turn around, a new job needing to be done lands in my real mailbox or my virtual one. Lots of good things happening – and some routine ones –…

  • Treasure Hunts

    Super-blogger Kimber Chin has put together another post, this one on romances with treasure hunts for Romancing the Blog. You’ve probably guessed that she hit me up for a contribution, and that I gave her one. (Otherwise, why tell you about it here?! LOL). It’ll be HERE.

  • Those Aussies

    As all of you know, Australia has been enduring some terrible fires. There’s a great deal of devastation, a lot of lost lives and destroyed homes. It’s incredibly sad to think that some of these fires may have been started by arsonists. Australians are some of the kindest and most generous people I’ve ever known…

  • Urban Fantasy Romance

    This post evolved out of a discussion started on Coffeetime Romance, where the bloggers from Shape Shifter Romance are hosting a readers’ retreat forum this month. (Coffeetime Romance’s forums, btw, are free – you just have to create an account to access them.) Marcia Colette started a discussion about labels and distinctions – the differences…

  • First Romance Novel Read

    I provided a comment about the first romance I ever read, and it’s appearing in a blog post today. Kimber Chin is gathering similar stories for NightOwl Romance, and the blog post is here. And once you find out what my first romance novel was, pop back here and tell me what your first romance…