Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • New Publishing Portal at KOBO

    Yesterday, KOBO unlocked the doors to their much-anticipated publishing portal, Writing Life. I registered and uploaded five books last night – this morning, they are live for sale and look good. I had been using the Smashwords portal to get to KOBO, but now can upload directly. The first five books are those which hadn’t…

  • Those Coxwells

    Once upon a time, I wrote four contemporary romances, featuring the three brothers and one sister in the Coxwell family. Each sibling had his or her story told and – no surprise – got an HEA. These books were wonderful to write. I just loved them and I still do. So, it’s very exciting to…

  • A Frustrating Detail

    One of the things that’s starting to drive me nuts is the lack of control over distribution for indie-pubbed books. This is funny, as I never have any control over the distribution of my traditionally published books. On the other hand, indie publishing gives control over so many things that discovering any area with very…

  • Why Go Indie?

    (I wrote this post for the newsletter of my writing chapter, but thought you might enjoy it too.) Technical innovation has recently evoked a huge change in the business of publishing as we’ve come to know and love it. The emergence of portals for digital self-publishing and the distribution of ebooks published through those portals…

  • Looking Mah-velous

    One of the most consistent complaints heard from readers who use e-readers is that book files are formatted incorrectly, so I thought we’d talk about that a bit more today. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the book in question was published by a big publishing house, a small publishing house or an indie author…