Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Update on The Highlander’s Curse

    I promised all of you an update on my progress with THE HIGHLANDER’S CURSE, which is the second book in my new True Love Brides series. This is Annelise’s book. As most of you know, THC was supposed to be published in December 2012 and it wasn’t. Why not? Well, I’m learning a lot about…

  • 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.…