Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Clickity Clack

    In October, I attended several conferences, one of which was very focused on the digital book market. The sessions were pretty interesting, and I came home with a long list of things to do. One of the phrases that sticks in my mind is “ensuring a rich end-of-book experience for the reader”. That’s marketing-speak of…

  • Vexed

    Well, I’m vexed. This week, I received the comments back from my beta-reader and editor for Tupperman’s story. I glanced them over and thought it would be easy to address them all. But as soon as I started to make changes, the story did that horrible thing – it began to unravel right before my…

  • Dissolving Boundaries – II

    Last week, we talked about the disappearance of territory as a real boundary in the distribution of digital books. That was one boundary inherited from traditional publishing that doesn’t make a lot of sense in our brave new world of e-books. My thinking is that the real barrier is now language. Today, we’re going to…

  • Surrender!

    One of the things that’s happening behind the scenes here right now – besides Tupperman getting his HEA, and the Bride Quest II books getting new type on their covers – is that the Rogues of Ravensmuir are getting new covers. I’ve been ’round and ’round about this, but finally decided to go for it.…

  • Shifting Type

    This past few months, I’ve been learning more about typography, particularly about type design for the covers of digital books. Theoretically, book covers should be the same independent of format – in reality, we look at digital book covers differently, which places different demands on the design. Specifically, when we shop online (whether we’re shopping…