Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Wild West Thursday

  • So, You Want to Indie Publish…

    Most of you know that I belong to a local group of authors. We have a wide range of experience—from newbies to old-guard like me—and we get our books to market in a number of ways. Most of the members of our group have some experience with publishers, either digital-first presses, small presses or the…

  • Five More Changes for Better SEO

    Last week, I shared some comparatively easy tweaks for authors to make to a website to improve its SEO. The list resulted from my attending a workshop on SEO and Analytics taught by Liz Gray. Today, we’ll dig a little deeper and review some questions that might require a little more thought to answer. You…

  • Five Tweaks to Better SEO

    I wish the title on this post didn’t sound so click-baity, but I can’t think of another way to phrase it that doesn’t. At least it communicates what this Wild West Thursday post is about. Let’s start with a disclaimer. I’m not an expert on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), not by any stretch of the…

  • At the Store

    I’ve decided to scale back my online store and ultimately dismantle it. It was an experiment and a learning experience, and one which I began almost a year ago. It’s time to look at the data and make conclusions, then apply them. What did I learn? 1. My readers don’t tend to buy digital content…

  • “Anger is a Map”

    A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about things I miss from traditional publishing. My intent was to learn from the past: since I’m my own publisher now (and will be for the foreseeable future) I wanted to identify processes and strategies that worked for me in the past, so I could find ways…