Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • 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…

  • Linky Loo

    Once upon a time, I told you about my concerns with Buy It Now links. I decided this week that I was over-thinking the question, made a list, cut it down to four vendors and made the links. Have a peek: GUARDIAN WINTER KISS It didn’t turn out as busy as I feared it would.…

  • We Have The Technology

    No, this isn’t about that old television show, The Six Million Dollar Man. It’s about writing – or, more accurately, about what writers know about publishing. I was talking this week about the differences between the early 1990’s when I was trying to sell my first book and now, and the differences in the challenges…

  • Making the Most of Writing Contests

    (I wrote this article for my RWA chapter newsletter, but thought some of you might find it interesting as well.) There are lots of contests for published authors, so many that it would be easy to spend a good bit of money on entering them all each year. And if you didn’t win, you might…

  • Moving Targets

    Here’s a meatier post for all of you – with many thanks for your patience. I know things have been a bit lean in terms of content around the blog lately, but now that Niall is well on his way to his H.E.A., I can get back into my rhythm again. I was thinking this…