Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • Prepping for Print on Demand – Cover

    Today, we’ll talk about considerations for preparing the pretty part of a printed book – the cover. Once again, you might want to use a professional designer to create the cover for your book. This is not my area of expertise, so I did just that. Kim Killion had already designed digital covers for The…

  • Prepping for Print on Demand – Interior

    Because I’ve learned a lot by preparing the Jewels of Kinfairlie for republication in Print on Demand editions, I thought I’d share that with you here. Today, we’ll talk about the file for the interior of the book. On Wednesday, we’ll talk about covers. (Tomorrow I have a guest blogger!) What you have to do…

  • Prepping for Digital Editions – Text Formatting

    One of the challenges facing authors who choose to self-publish their books digitally is that of formatting the files. I thought we’d talk a bit about that today, in preparation for the upcoming discussion about taking books to Print on Demand editions. Once upon a time, I was a typesetter, and later, I did desktop…

  • Books!

    Because I know that some of you really like print editions of books (and because I like them too) I decided to dip my toes into the print-on-demand pond a little bit. The result is new print editions of the Jewels of Kinfairlie trilogy. They are more expensive than the original mass market paperback editions,…

  • The BEAUTY Buy Links

    And here comes THE BEAUTY, in a shiny new digital edition. This is the second book in my second Bride Quest trilogy and was my first book to land on the New York Times list of bestselling books. This also brings my total of re-released medieval romances to a full dozen – 12 in all!…