Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Amazon MatchBook

    Amazon has announced a new program, which they’ll be rolling out in the next few weeks (according to their announcement to authors). I think it’s pretty cool, and since it may impact your buying decisions, I thought I’d tell you about it. MatchBook allows authors and publishers to enroll books in a matching program. Here’s…

  • Foreign Rights and Detective Work

    Yesterday, I told you about the various covers for my contemporary romance, Double Trouble. In that post, there’s an aside about foreign rights and foreign editions, which got me to thinking about just how weird that particular facet of publishing can be. When an author writes a book, he or she inherently owns all rights…

  • To Do Lists

    Every time I go to a conference, I come home with a To Do list. This has always been the case, but my lists have become longer with conferences in the past year or so. RWA Atlanta was no different – and I still have list items from BEA in May and even Novelists’ Ink…

  • What’s In A Name?

    Last week, we started to talk about what lessons and practices can be carried from traditional print publishing and which ones are less useful in a digital publishing environment. I saved the topic of author brands—i.e. the name an author uses on his or her work—for its own post this week, because it’s such a…

  • Take It Or Leave It

    Things have been quiet on Wild West Thursdays here for a while, mostly because I had my head down to finish The Highlander’s Curse. This week, though, that book is published and I’m home from RWA National. I realized that I have a number of WWT draft posts sitting here which have never been published.…