Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Wild West Thursday

  • Timing is Everything

    Last week on Wild West Thursday, there was a comment about authors finishing series of linked books but not taking too long about it. That got me to thinking about publication schedules. Authors have never been able to write as quickly as readers can read, but expectations in terms of publishing schedules are changing  for…

  • Open Dockets

    Some of you may have heard that B&N changed their publishing portal this week. PubIt, their previous portal for indie-published authors, is being phased out, and a new portal called NookPress has been launched. There’s lots of happy chat from B&N  about all the new functionality available to authors on NookPress, but many writers (like…

  • Visit from Mark LeFebvre

    Yesterday, I told you about the Stratford Authors blog that I established last fall with a local librarian, Melanie Kindrachuk, to focus on local authors. I mentioned that we’d started to co-host some events with the local library. At the beginning of March, our monthly event featured Mark LeFebvre, the Director of Author Relations at…

  • Stand in the Place Where You Live

    You get two Wild West Thursday posts this week, because I need to give you the background story for tomorrow’s post. (Don’t you feel lucky?!) In recent years, I’ve become convinced that authors making connections with other authors is the wave of the future. With the rise of indie-publishing, it’s far easier for authors to…

  • A War of Words

    Earlier this week, I received a newsletter for authors from one of my former publishing houses. I still earn royalties from them, as they still have rights to some of my books, so they consider me one of their authors, even though I haven’t written for them for years. This newsletter is always amusing to…