Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Week Two at the TPL Blog

    Today, I’m discussing the romance market, particularly how books are sold, over at the TPL blog. Please stop by!

  • TPL Residency First Guest Blog

    Today, over at the TPL blog, we have a guest blog post from Dr. Nancy Down, Head Librarian at the Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. She’ll be discussing how romance novels echo popular culture. Unfortunately, I’m in transit today and might not be able to log…

  • An Alternative Branding Strategy

    Yesterday, we talked a bit about author branding. Today – perhaps inevitably! – you’ll get my take on all of this marketing stuff. First, a goal because everything you do in this business should derive from what you want to achieve. So, we’ll work from my goal to develop this strategy – your own goal…

  • Branding

    I recently took a workshop on branding for authors. There were a lot of good points, and new ways to think about marketing oneself, and I’m still sorting out what that means for my own marketing initiatives. One thing that I struggled with in this workshop is my own knee-jerk reaction to the notion of…

  • Writer in Residence Blog

    As of today, I’ll be blogging three times a week as part of the Writer in Residence program at the Toronto Public Library. • On Mondays, there will be a new post from me on some facet of writing romance. • On Wednesdays, I’ll post links there to other posts on the same topic. Many…