Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • The Production Cycle

    I’ve probably talked about this before, but I have page proofs to read this week, so that makes me think about it again. One of the things that I try to get aspiring authors to do when I teach workshops is to figure out how many books they can comfortably write per year. This is…

  • Digital Edition of ALL OR NOTHING

    One of the things that happens in publishing is that authors get semi-annual royalty statements from publishing houses. These statements list sales activity for a specified six month period. They also sometimes provide interesting news, especially if the author isn’t writing for that particular editor or line or house anymore. In the past, for example,…

  • More Dragonfire

    I’ve some fun news to share with you about Dragonfire. There will be three more books and – here’s the really neat part – these will be YA Dragonfire books, focussed on the story of Zoë coming of age as the Wyvern. Along the way, we’ll find out the resolution to Sophie and Nikolas’ story.…

  • Cover for REBEL

    Ta DAAAAAAA! Here’s the cover art for book #3 in my fallen angel series. REBEL will be available August 31, 2010 from Tor. The ISBN# is 978-0765359513. What do you think?

  • Macmillan Blog on the Agency Clause

    For those of you interested in the digital book selling model known as the Agency Clause – the root of the kerfuffle at Amazon a few weeks back – here’s a blog post from Macmillan CEO John Sargent with some more detail.