Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Trope Tuesday

  • More Relationship Tropes

    Here’s my last post on tropes in romance novels and in my books. Since we’re down to the bits and ends, this collection of tropes is a bit of a mixed bag. Protector – one of the protagonists volunteers or is assigned to protect the other, and romantic entanglements ensue. This also manifests in historicals…

  • Highlander, Military and other Hero Tropes

    Today’s suite of tropes once again feature the qualities of the hero. Military – the hero is a member of a fighting corps. Most of my medieval heroes are knights, and some belong (or have belonged) to a military order like the Templars. Others have  seen active military duty on crusade or as mercenaries and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Bad Boy Heroes

    This week’s Trope Tuesday is on Monday – because Ty and Amy’s book goes on sale tomorrow so they get the blog post spot. 🙂 These romance tropes focus on the characterization of the hero. What kind of hero do you like best? Wealthy Hero – This is a trope in which the hero is…