Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • 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…

  • Dissolving Boundaries – I

    One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is how digital books are changing the basic assumptions of publishing – or how digital publishing technology can do so, if people are paying attention. I thought we might talk about that today. (Those of you who are busy eating turkey can catch up later!) In…

  • Skimming Along

    One of the things that isn’t getting a lot of air time in the discussion about digital books is how reading on a screen instead of on a page changes our reading habits. I thought we’d talk about that today, since there are not only changes but implications from those changes. I skim when I…

  • Meet Me in the Middle

    I recently attended the Novelist’s Inc conference and learned a tremendous amount. Wow. This is a great organization for writers and if you are one, think about joining. NINC’s membership is restricted to multi-published authors, but authors of all genres of fiction can join. As a result, discussions are very informative and include perspectives from…

  • The Future of Dragonfire

    As promised, here are the details of how the Dragonfire series gets completed. I do have plenty of spin-off ideas, but want to get the main series finished before we venture into new territory. So, here’s the plan. First off, we need to catch up with Drake and his Dragon Teeth Warriors. They collected the…