Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Shadow of the Typewriter

    I was going to call these posts “Collisions of Technology” but I have a hard time thinking of a typewriter as technology – even though, it must surely be. These posts are about publishing, about the past shaping the present, and about the long cold shadow cast by the typewriter. You might be skeptical, but…

  • Yet Another Cover

    This is the cover art for that anthology I’ve been telling you about. THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRE ROMANCE 2 – or LOVE BITES in the UK – will be an October 2009 release. It’s a collection of short stories, each running 6000 to 10000 words in length. My contribution is called “Coven of Mercy”…

  • “Bodice Rippers”

    This story used to be common knowledge among romance writers, but I guess it’s been lost over the years. I told it when I taught that workshop in January, and only one other author in attendance knew it – so I’ll tell it to you again. Once upon a time, historical romance as we now…

  • Bookstore Links

    A meaty topic today – and I’m asking your opinion, so please comment. I was talking to one of my editors last week, and she told me how the sales team really like to see hotlinks to the online bookstores on an author’s website. I can appreciate that many people are impulse buyers, and such…

  • Hurry Up & Wait

    What a wild month this has been for me. Sorry to have become a sporadic poster, but it’s been crazy. It seems that every time I turn around, a new job needing to be done lands in my real mailbox or my virtual one. Lots of good things happening – and some routine ones –…