Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • The Question of Cover Art

    One of the really interesting challenges in publishing and selling books is ensuring that the cover art is evocative of the book inside, and that it appeals to readers. In traditional publishing, this is the responsibility of the publisher, but when we authors publish (or re-publish) our books, we need to think about covers, too.…

  • POD Progress

    One of the exciting things I’ve been doing this month is putting together the files for new print editions of the Jewels of Kinfairlie. These will be print on demand editions, which means that they will be trade paperbacks – and also more expensive than the original mass market editions. I know that there are…

  • Warnings on Books

    This is a relatively new phenomenon. I started to notice it in the fall, and it’s become a topic of discussion in several writing groups of mine. Do you think there should be warnings on books about the book content? This is mostly something that is happening with self-published books, and mostly with self-published books…

  • THE COUNTESS Buy Links

    The first book in my Bride Quest 2 trilogy, THE COUNTESS, is available at Amazon. I’m happy to see it there so quickly. (The Amazon elves are clearly working the holiday. Yay, elves!) THE COUNTESS at Amazon. I have enrolled Eglantine in a new program at Amazon, which means this book will only be available…

  • Buy Links for THE LAST HIGHLANDER

    THE LAST HIGHLANDER is a time travel of mine which was published under my pseudonym Claire Cross in 1998. I love this story and am very excited to send it back out into the world. It’s now available again, in a new digital edition, and here is the linky goodness: The excerpt is on my…