Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Welcome to 2020!

    It’s a brand new year! What will you do in 2020? What will you change? What will you accomplish? I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions but I’ll take any opportunity to review and revise. The start of a new year is a good time to do that. First, let’s take a look at things…

  • More Paperback Editions

    Until about two years ago, I was creating two editions of each of my paperbacks. One was published through Createspace (an Amazon company) and made available to Amazon stores. The other was published through Ingrams and made available everywhere else. The two editions were the same, except that there were slight differences in the width…

  • Hard Cover Editions with Cloth Covers

    Ingrams, the supplier I use for printing my books, has announced that they will be discontinuing their clothbound books. From their email: “On October 22, 2019, we will be retiring our blue and grey cloth covers and gold foil spine stamping in favor of a blue and grey digital cloth image with linen textured lamination.”…

  • Workshop at RTC

    This morning, I’m teaching a workshop at RTC (Romancing the Capital) called A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing Options. I have two hours. The workshop clocks out at an hour and twenty minutes. I have over 100 slides! I hope the projector works. I hope I get through the whole talk without getting derailed by questions…

  • TRW’s Northern Hearts Conference

    I’ll be attending the Northern Hearts conference hosted by Toronto Romance Writers, which will be held at the North York Novotel from September 20 – 21, 2019. There’s a booksigning on Friday night to launch the conference and I’ll be signing there. I’ll also be teaching a workshop on Saturday (time TBD) called “Ten Reasons…