Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Indie Publishing

  • Interview at WordPreneurs

    Here’s an interview I did for WordPreneurs, a site focused on indie authors. The permalink is here.

  • Digital Book Files

    Well, the Herculean task is complete. All of my book files have been professionally formatted and uploaded again to all of the vendor sites. Twenty-four titles and seven sites! Yikes – I’m glad it’s done! The updated editions are live at most sites, with two big exceptions: 1. Overdrive is still processing the new files…

  • Going Direct

    This started out as a post about one little wrinkle with distributing to Apple, and has developed into an epic saga about digital distribution. I hope some of you find this facet of our brave new world of publishing as interesting as I do. When authors publish and distribute their own digital editions, they need…

  • Changing Relationships

    As the world of publishing changes and mutates, we all need to reconsider our industry relationships. This isn’t a bad thing by any means – it’s simply a sign that more things are possible. One of the big changes that writers constantly remark upon, for example, is how freely indie-published authors exchange and share information.…

  • Digital Formatting

    I promised yesterday that I’d talk a bit more today about formatting for digital books. Here we go! In the past, I have followed the Smashwords Style Guide to format my own Word DOC files. This is picky work, but it’s not that hard – it just takes time when you have old files that…