Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: My Books

  • Second Chances, Disguise and Other Tropes

    Here’s another group of tropes found in my books. We’ve talked about marriage tropes, about hero tropes, and about some relationship tropes. This group could be considered relationship tropes or protagonist tropes. Disguise – one of the protagonists assumes a false identity for what seems like a good reason at the time. The other falls…

  • Guides to Fictional Worlds

    One of the (many) things I’ve been working on this summer is compiling all the various details about my fictional worlds into comprehensive guides. This includes lists of characters and details about those characters, family trees and family relationships, relevant dates and events for those characters, as well as known information about the world itself…

  • Angus & Kyle

    Angus and Kyle arrived yesterday afternoon in their print editions. Even though they were boxed up together for the trip, it looks as if they got along quite well. The books were in perfect condition! 🙂 These new print editions of The Beauty and Addicted to Love are available at booksellers, as well as in…

  • Enemies to Lovers and Other Relationship Tropes

    Last fall, we started to talk about tropes in my books, then other discussions took over. Today, I thought we’d get back to that topic, as there are a lot more tropes than we discussed already. We talked about marriage tropes (Marriage of Convenience, Arranged Marriages and Runaway Brides) and also about tropes featuring the…

  • Quiet at the Château

    When I was a kid, moms everywhere interpreted silence as a sign that trouble was brewing. As much as I’d like to be making trouble, silence here on the blog usually means that I’m working. A lot. There are a lot of things in progress behind the scenes, so I thought today I’d give you…