Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Resolutions

    Do you make resolutions at the beginning of each year? Do you stick to them? I tend to do a review in December of the year that has just passed, making mental lists of what worked and what didn’t work. From that, I try to work out ways to improve my life or my work…

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy new year, everyone, and all the best to you and yours! Here’s to a wonderful, healthy and happy 2012 for everyone. 🙂 (Did you know that 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar? It doesn’t start until February…)

  • The Queen Bee’s Tips to Negotiation

    Negotiating is part of an author’s life, and it’s one thing I’ve had to learn to do better over the years. I realized this past week that I had the best possible advisor sleeping at my feet and never realized as much. The Queen Bee – our standard poodle – is a master negotiator. You…

  • Thoughts on Writers

    I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and decided to toss it out to all of you today. Do you think writers are becoming boring? I belong to a number of writers’ groups and listserves. Once upon a time, these were pretty interesting places to hang out. We’d talk about publishers and their programs…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, Columbus Day in the U.S. Either way, I hope you have the day off work and something delicious planned for dinner. We had our turkey dinner on Saturday, so we have leftovers – which I actually enjoy more. 🙂 Count your blessings and have a good day.