Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Demystifying ISBN#’s – A Bit

    A number of authors have been asking me recently about ISBN#’s for indie publishing. I’m by no means an authority on them, but here’s what I know about them: ISBN# means International Standard Book Number. (Here’s the Wiki, if you’d rather read about them in greater detail there.) Each published book is assigned an ISBN#.…

  • THE TEMPTRESS Buy Links

    Here comes THE TEMPTRESS, in a shiny new digital edition. This is the third book in my second Bride Quest trilogy – and it’s just in time for Valentine’s Day! You can read about all of the Bride Quest books right HERE. You can read an excerpt of THE TEMPTRESS right HERE. Kindle buy link…

  • Prepping for Print on Demand – Cover

    Today, we’ll talk about considerations for preparing the pretty part of a printed book – the cover. Once again, you might want to use a professional designer to create the cover for your book. This is not my area of expertise, so I did just that. Kim Killion had already designed digital covers for The…

  • Prepping for Print on Demand – Interior

    Because I’ve learned a lot by preparing the Jewels of Kinfairlie for republication in Print on Demand editions, I thought I’d share that with you here. Today, we’ll talk about the file for the interior of the book. On Wednesday, we’ll talk about covers. (Tomorrow I have a guest blogger!) What you have to do…

  • Prepping for Digital Editions – Text Formatting

    One of the challenges facing authors who choose to self-publish their books digitally is that of formatting the files. I thought we’d talk a bit about that today, in preparation for the upcoming discussion about taking books to Print on Demand editions. Once upon a time, I was a typesetter, and later, I did desktop…