Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Promoting

  • My New Virtual Assistant

    I have been thinking for a while that I could use some help with promotional events and arrangements. While I enjoy doing these things and interacting with readers, I’ve found that when I’m caught up in writing a story, I forget pretty much everything else. This affects real life (we run out of milk when…

  • May Contest

    And so the day many of you have been waiting for – contests return to Alive & Knitting! Contests are fun and I miss them. Soooo, every month we’ll have a contest here on the blog. It will post on the 15th of the month and you’ll have until the 30th to enter. You’ll enter…

  • Reviewers’ Contest – May

    I’m borrowing this idea from some other indie writers, and am hoping it works. We might have to tweak it for next month. The idea behind this is that posted reviews for books are good. As authors it’s good to encourage people to post reviews, if they liked the book. Also, everyone likes prezzies and…

  • Contest!

    Today and tomorrow (well, and yesterday) my medieval romance THE COUNTESS is free on Amazon for Kindle. I’ll talk to you a bit next week about how and why this marketing strategy is so successful, but for today, I have a mission. Maybe you will choose to accept it! I’d like to drive THE COUNTESS…

  • Visit from Eva Maria Hamilton

    Some of you may remember that I was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto Public Library in the fall of 2009. Part of my responsibilities there was to read the work of aspiring writers, then make appointments with a number of them to discuss their work. One of the writers whose work I thought showed great…