Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Publishing

  • Fun Bride Quest Fact

    I realized while I was signing the contest prizes from last week that not all of the copies that were prizes had stepbacks in them. Therein lies a fun publishing fact. A stepback is a second cover, tipped inside the first one. I think it was called a stepback because initially, the cover was trimmed…

  • Fun Dragonfire Fact

    I mentioned this in the Comments last week – replying to Margaret M. – but since it could be easily overlooked there, I’ll mention it again. The Dragonfire books are getting longer. KISS OF FIRE was about 93,000 words long and it was tough to pack in everything that I wanted to include. That’s a…

  • ARC Surprise

    I got a surprise yesterday, when the courier brought two heavy boxes to the door. Of course, I immediately ripped them open! There are 50 or 60 Advance Reading Copies of FALLEN in my foyer. That’s the first of my trilogy future-set romances, the one that’s coming from Tor in October. These are mass market…

  • More Dragonfire

    Several of you have asked in the comments about the continuation of the Dragonfire series after Quinn’s book. I thought I’d answer here, as it’ll be easier to find the info. Right now, there are three Dragonfire books contracted and scheduled for publication. 1. KISS OF FIRE – this is Quinn’s book, which is on…

  • Yummy Yummy

    My editor sent me a real copy of KISS OF FIRE. WOW! I just love the cover for this book – it looks even better wrapped around an actual book. It’s funny how everything suddenly seems real when the manuscript becomes a book. I know all along that that’s what’s going to happen, of course,…