Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Elves!

    Well, I’m very excited. Some helpful elves have stopped by my office and done a bunch of boring keyboard work for me. Wow! They work fast! As a result, I have three sets of proofs to read, then I’ll have some digital re-releases available for you. Each step of the process will take a few…

  • A Gift from Amazon for Authors

    Yesterday, it was announced that Amazon.com had launched a new service for authors. Those authors who are registered with Amazon’s Author Central program can now see their Bookscan data for the past month. For free. Sorted by title and by geographic region. Although Bookscan does not include Kindle copies sold (Bookscan is for print books)…

  • Grammar and the Paranormal Writer

    Since I’m up to my eyes in a copy edit this week, you all get to hear a bit about it. First, let me explain part of the production process. A copy edit is a phase of the production cycle for a book. After the book is delivered and revised and the acquiring editor approves…

  • Home Again!

    Hello, everyone. I’m back home and catching up. Wow – what a great conference they host at the New Jersey RWA each fall! If you are an aspiring writer and ever have the opportunity to go, please do so. There were many workshops – four or five tracks in parallel, seven at peak times –…

  • The Backlist Challenge

    As most of you know, many authors not only have regained rights to their backlist titles (I wrote a post on that a while ago called Silver Linings) and are re-releasing digital editions of those works. So far, I’ve done the easy part and re-released my two novellas from the MAMMOTH anthologies – “Coven of…