Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • The Book Tree

    A few weeks ago, I saw some book trees on Facebook. They were Christmas trees, but made of carefully stacked books. Some of them were decorated, and some weren’t. When I finally saw one with lights on it, I knew I had to build one. Here it is: Building a book tree isn’t particularly complicated,…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    A happy Thanksgiving to all of you celebrating the holiday today – or this weekend. I hope you have a wonderful meal, excellent company and much to be thankful for, this year and the year ahead.

  • Home from NINC

    Phew! I’m home again from the fabulous Novelists’ Inc conference, which was once again held at St. Pete’s Beach in Florida. It was – as ever – an informative and interesting conference, plus a chance to meet up with good friends and make new ones. I had a lot of good meetings, and will have…

  • “Anger is a Map”

    A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about things I miss from traditional publishing. My intent was to learn from the past: since I’m my own publisher now (and will be for the foreseeable future) I wanted to identify processes and strategies that worked for me in the past, so I could find ways…

  • Something Fun

    Last year, I saw this billboard and didn’t get a picture of it before it was taken down. This year, I’m on my game. 🙂 What do you think? I love it!