Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Home!

    I am home again, which feels particularly impressive given the progress of Sandy on the east coast. (I was in NYC.) I had a wonderful time at the Novelists Inc. conference, saw lots of friends, made some new friends and learned a tremendous amount. My brain is bursting with new ideas, so I’m in that…

  • Be Vewy Vewy Quiet…

    It’s going to be quiet on the blog this week, as I’ll be away and probably offline. I’m going to the Novelist’s Ink conference in New York and doing some research in the city as well. I’m looking forward to seeing old friends, making some new ones, talking far too much and maybe drinking a…

  • Life Imitating Art – or Not

    Phew! Now we’ve finished the EMBER’S KISS blog tour – and I have sore fingers from traipsing all over the internet – it’s time to settle back into our usual blog routine. I’ve been doing some thinking and writing some posts and today you get to read the first of them. This is an idea…

  • The Domino Effect

    One of the interesting things about living in an old house is that very few changes are simple. There’s always a cascading To Do list that results from trying to make a single modification. For example, in the spring, we finally found a light fixture for the foyer. Up until now, it’s had what Mr.…

  • Just Peachy

    This week, I’m canning peaches. (Actually, they’re not going into cans – they’re going into glass quart sealer jars.) My mom and I used to can peaches when I was a kid. Usually, it was in really hot weather. Invariably, everything in the kitchen was sticky by the time we were done. It was always…