Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Writers Making Connections Events

    I’ve been organizing some sessions for writers in Stratford Ontario this summer, which are geared towards indie publishing and networking. These are not reader events, and there will not be booksignings. There will be three sessions in 2015 and they’re running at cost. Registration is going through my Selz store, just for convenience. There’s now…

  • Print Distribution

    One of the interesting things about publishing right now is how quickly things are changing. Each time I publish a book, something about the process is faster, slower or configured differently. Usually, these changes are improvements, which is a good thing. Today’s question is just how long it will take for the print edition of…

  • Firestorm Forever in Print

    With each new book published, there’s more for me to learn – and always another experiment to try. The publication of Firestorm Forever is no different. This time, I thought I’d try approving the print edition for release early. I did that on Tuesday, which made the print edition available for purchase immediately on Createspace.…

  • Done!

    There is a moment in every book’s editing process when all the pieces click into place, all the scenes are complete, all the details line up and all the editorial queries have been answered. Firestorm Forever has reached that point. It’s in its final copy edit and proofread, so we’re right on time for that…

  • Our Survey Says…

    As promised, here are the results from the short survey I set up this week. There were four questions, and I had over 300 replies. You didn’t all answer every question, but that’s okay – and some of you were good enough to leave comments on the last one. Here are the results. The first…