Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • Cover Artists in Transition

    This week on Wild West Thursday, I thought we’d take a look at how the current changes in the publishing world are affecting cover art and cover artists. We talk a lot about the effects upon writers and even upon publishers, but as writers, we have a lot in common with the other creative people…

  • Free and Its Fallout

    This week on Wild West Thursday, we’ll talk a bit about one of the sales mechanisms used to promote books in the digital marketplace – making a title free. The Principle The core idea is that the free book is what is called a “loss leader” by marketing people. This is similar to a free…

  • Update on THE BEAUTY BRIDE

    THE BEAUTY BRIDE is now free at Amazon, as well as at most other portals. The exception is B&N, but I’m hoping the free price shows up there soon. There are links and an excerpt on my site, right here. Most of you who stop by here have probably read the book already, but I’m…

  • Buying Books – Then & Now

    Once upon a time, we bought printed books in bricks-and-mortar bookstores. We went to the store, maybe with a particular title in mind, found the book and bought it. If you’re at all like me, a trip to the bookstore also meant buying other books, maybe books that weren’t on the shopping list. This sounds…

  • Adventures in the New Wild West

    There are so many interesting (strange and unusual) things about indie publishing and digital self-publishing that I thought it would be fun to share some of them with you. Here’s this week’s quirk. The other day, I received a notice from Amazon that I needed to verify my rights to one of the backlist Delacroix…