Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Those Coxwells

    Once upon a time, I wrote four contemporary romances, featuring the three brothers and one sister in the Coxwell family. Each sibling had his or her story told and – no surprise – got an HEA. These books were wonderful to write. I just loved them and I still do. So, it’s very exciting to…

  • 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…