Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • 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…

  • Schedule Updates

    I’ve been moving my schedule around to accommodate the new publication date of Bad Case of Loving You. I also want to start some new projects. One of the results of this reorganization is that Some Like It Hot has been moved to a February 2020 publication date. That will take my contemporary romance publication…

  • A Little Bit About Publishing Contracts

    I was asked recently by a new author to have a peek at a contract offered to her and thought that a general post about pitfalls might be welcome. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read, rejected and signed a lot of publishing contracts. I’ve made some mistakes and learned from them. I’ve also learned…

  • Checklist for New Authors

    Indie Thursday is back! I’ve met a lot of authors lately who are starting out on their publishing adventure, so thought it would be a good idea to create a checklist (rather than saying the same things over and over again). This also works for new author brands. This post looks like a wall of…

  • Translations

    I’ve embarked on a new adventure these past couple of weeks – I’ll be having translations done of some of my books. This will be a huge job, since each translation will take several months. I’m starting with some Delacroix titles until I get the hang of this process. First up will be the Jewels…