Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Enough of Winter

    Every year, around this time, I get fed up with winter. This year, the feeling seems to be a bit more intense. I’m not sure why as winter has been pretty much a non-event here this year. At any rate, I’m always ready for gardens and flowers and colour at the end of February, and…

  • Phew!

    Home again, after teaching a full day workshop at Toronto Romance Writers on Saturday. I think it went well – I had fun, anyways – but now it’s back to my regular writing schedule. I like to teach and interact with people. It gets me out of my little writing cave and always gives me…

  • 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…