Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • A Frustrating Detail

    One of the things that’s starting to drive me nuts is the lack of control over distribution for indie-pubbed books. This is funny, as I never have any control over the distribution of my traditionally published books. On the other hand, indie publishing gives control over so many things that discovering any area with very…

  • Article on E-Readers

    Here’s an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last week. It’s about e-readers and how they track your reading habits, then report the results back to the vendor’s server. I’ll wait while you go and read it. What do you think of this? While it doesn’t surprise me that this is possible –…

  • Why Go Indie?

    (I wrote this post for the newsletter of my writing chapter, but thought you might enjoy it too.) Technical innovation has recently evoked a huge change in the business of publishing as we’ve come to know and love it. The emergence of portals for digital self-publishing and the distribution of ebooks published through those portals…

  • Looking Mah-velous

    One of the most consistent complaints heard from readers who use e-readers is that book files are formatted incorrectly, so I thought we’d talk about that a bit more today. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the book in question was published by a big publishing house, a small publishing house or an indie author…

  • Time Travel Romances Boxed Set

    I finally got this formatted and uploaded today. It’s live on Smashwords already, and should appear on Amazon over the weekend. This digital boxed set includes all four of my time travel romances at a special price: Once Upon a Kiss The Last Highlander The Moonstone and Love Potion #9  And here are the links…