Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Whole Lotta Rafe

    Guess what landed on my porch last week? Just look: Advanced Reading Copies of GUARDIAN! They’ve all gone out in the mail now, on their merry way to reviewers far and wide. It is fun to see them all together, though, and play with them a bit before they head out to do their job.…

  • Agency

    Social historians often talk about “agency”, by which they mean the power of a certain type of person in a certain society to influence his or her circumstances. Does a peasant woman in 12th century southern France have agency? Can she get rid of an abusive husband? Can she improve her material conditions? Can she…

  • The Other Stuff

    One of the things that I often seem to discuss with new authors – or authors who have just made their first sale – is their productivity. That’s how much they write per day, per week, per year, and it’s important because deadlines are always set by the author. So, the author needs to know…

  • Silver Linings

    Good things can still happen in tough times, and we’ll talk about one of them today. The book market had been going through a lot of changes in the last six or seven years, and although that creates challenges for everyone in publishing, one of the nifty things that has been happening is that authors’…

  • Shadow of the Typewriter II

    Fonts are another issue that fall out of the assumption that all authors will type their book manuscripts on typewriters. Or more specifically, font style is the focus of today’s post. Typewriters, typically, have or had only one font. It looked a whole lot like fixed pitch Courier, which was in fact designed to resemble…