Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Talking Dirty

    In all the years I’ve been published, it’s been considered unacceptable for authors to talk about the money they make from their work – particularly if authors are comparing their earnings. We still do it, so I’ve always referred to these discussions about money as “talking dirty”. I thought this week, I’d talk dirty and…

  • Writers Making Connections

    I belong to a local writing group that meets most months. We have lunch and talk about our writing, our books, and the publishing business at large (as well as other things). We get loud, we have fun and we share a lot of experience with each other. I’m convinced that our new world of…

  • Timing is Everything

    Last week on Wild West Thursday, there was a comment about authors finishing series of linked books but not taking too long about it. That got me to thinking about publication schedules. Authors have never been able to write as quickly as readers can read, but expectations in terms of publishing schedules are changing  for…

  • Upcoming Workshop

    I’ll be teaching in Ottawa again! On Sunday October 6 from 12:30 to 4:30, I’ll be teaching my workshop The Business of Writing at the Ottawa Romance Writers‘ monthly meeting. Attendance will be open to non-members, so please check their site for details.

  • Open Dockets

    Some of you may have heard that B&N changed their publishing portal this week. PubIt, their previous portal for indie-published authors, is being phased out, and a new portal called NookPress has been launched. There’s lots of happy chat from B&N  about all the new functionality available to authors on NookPress, but many writers (like…