Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Wild West Thursday

  • Curating Books

    Second in a series about the changing landscape of publishing. Check out last Thursday’s post, Reconsidering Gatekeepers, to start at the beginning. Agents and editors have said many things to me over the years about books and about the publishing industry, not all of which I’ve agreed with or even understood at the time. I’m…

  • Reconsidering Gatekeepers

    Today, I’m starting a new series of Thursday posts. Although they’re still within the Wild West Thursday category, they’re linked. These posts are about the current state of publishing, along with some observations and speculations about where we’re headed from here. There are no right answers and no absolutes, but thinking about the changes to…

  • Making Alliances

    I teach a workshop once in a while called the Business of Publishing. (Sometimes it ends up being called the Business of Writing, which isn’t that different.) I taught it again last month at Ottawa RWA. Inevitably, when I prepare for the workshop, I end up updating the market and industry material. I also re-do…

  • FALLEN and KDP Select

    As most of you know, I recently republished FALLEN, the first book in my urban fantasy romance trilogy, The Prometheus Project. I decided to enroll the book in Amazon’s KDP Select promotion.This program requires that the book in question be available exclusively at Amazon for 90 days. It also allows the author/publisher to make the…

  • The Future of Storytelling

    Astro-Jen sent me the link to this online course, which starts tomorrow and sounds interesting. It’s called The Future of Storytelling, and evidently over 45,000 people (including yours truly) have registered. The syllabus raises interesting questions about how storytelling will evolve or change, given current and future technology. How will our expectations as readers change?…