Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • Six Years

    This week is the Romance Writers of America annual national conference. This year, it’ll be in San Diego, but I’m not attending. I don’t always go to RWA, but I always think about it while it’s going on. This year, they’re showing a documentary called Love Between the Covers, about the business of writing and…

  • The Mini-Books

    I’ve had a couple of questions about the print editions of Wyvern’s Mate, so it’s clearly time for a post on them. The Dragons of Incendium series has a different format than Dragonfire. It’s a different series, set in a different world, so can be based on a different premise—and have a different structure. The…

  • So, You Want to Indie Publish…

    Most of you know that I belong to a local group of authors. We have a wide range of experience—from newbies to old-guard like me—and we get our books to market in a number of ways. Most of the members of our group have some experience with publishers, either digital-first presses, small presses or the…

  • Books at Chapters Indigo

    One of my challenges in going indie has been trying to ensure that my new books are available where you (my readers) like to shop. Since I’m Canadian, many of my readers are in Canada, which means that Chapters/Indigo is the place they shop. That’s the big bookstore chain in Canada. My digital books are…

  • Writers Making Connections – June Event

    I’m organizing three events for writers this summer in Stratford Ontario, and the first one is just over a week away. The first Writers Making Connections event focuses on the editorial process. We have a freelance editor, Laura Shin, speaking to us first about what an editor can do for your book, then a panel…