Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • Time for Chaos

    I told you a while back that we’d be having renovations done at the house this year, and they’ve started today. This means noise and dust, at least in the short term. It means worker guys in the house, too, and the Queen Bee getting miffed about them coming in and out without ringing the…

  • Nook Gook

    It appears that my Claire Delacroix books have issues in their Nook editions, available from B&N. Some readers have posted complaints that the books are blank, which certainly isn’t what they thought they were buying! The Nook PubIt interface has been very glitchy since the beginning of December, when Nook sales were opened to the…

  • Update on The Highlander’s Curse

    I promised all of you an update on my progress with THE HIGHLANDER’S CURSE, which is the second book in my new True Love Brides series. This is Annelise’s book. As most of you know, THC was supposed to be published in December 2012 and it wasn’t. Why not? Well, I’m learning a lot about…

  • Clickity Clack

    In October, I attended several conferences, one of which was very focused on the digital book market. The sessions were pretty interesting, and I came home with a long list of things to do. One of the phrases that sticks in my mind is “ensuring a rich end-of-book experience for the reader”. That’s marketing-speak of…

  • Vexed

    Well, I’m vexed. This week, I received the comments back from my beta-reader and editor for Tupperman’s story. I glanced them over and thought it would be easy to address them all. But as soon as I started to make changes, the story did that horrible thing – it began to unravel right before my…