Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Wild West Thursday

  • Flashback

    I’ve been struck lately by how prolific many indie authors are. That, in turn, makes me think about changing expectations from readers and publishers. Let’s start off with the publication schedule. There are authors who publish works monthly, even biweekly, which is a truly amazing feat. In an ideal universe, the next work in a…

  • An Ode to Print Books

    I recently bought a handmade blank book from a local artist, who uses Japanese papers to create one-of-a-kind journals. They are just beautiful and bring together many of the elements I love about print books. And that got me to thinking. We’re a day early for Wild West Thursday, but let’s talk about print books…

  • The New Shape of Fiction

    Here we are back at Wild West Thursday again. I think I told you that I was taking an online course called The Future of Storytelling. It was interesting in many ways, and in combination with my ruminations on the changing face of digital publishing, I’ve been thinking about the new shape of fiction. If…

  • Chicken Little and the Digital Book Market

    This is the first Wild West Thursday post on my new blog. The old ones are still over at Alive & Knitting if you want to catch up on the discussion. Remember Chicken Little? He was the one who ran around, certain that the sky was falling. (Turns out that this is a very old…

  • The New Curators

    I’ve been talking about the explosion of new content in the book market and how it affects reading, as well as how this market differs from the book market of the past. To catch up on the discussion, you might want to check out the first post, Reconsidering Gatekeepers, and the second post, Curating Books.…