Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Writer Resources

    Once upon a time, I wrote a lot of blog posts about writing and publishing. When I went indie in 2012, though, I wasn’t sure how applicable those posts would be to our new world (which felt a little wild for a few years there.) This past weekend at my local writers’ group, though, we…

  • ORWA Workshop in 2019

    Update – this workshop has been cancelled. I’ll be teaching a workshop at the Ottawa Romance Writers Association in Nepean, Ontario on May 5, 2019. Switching to Glide: Join Deborah Cooke for a workshop on targeting opportunity, managing back list, and ensuring your own productivity to create a steady revenue stream from your writing. Whether…

  • Merry Christmas, Everyone!

    What a crazy year this has been. 2017 seems to have gone by at warp speed. I had all these plans…some of them happened, but some didn’t. And here is – the eve of the weekend of Christmas. I still have some pictures to take for the next Fiber Friday, so we’ll do that next…

  • NaNoWriMo 2017

    I often participate in NaNoWriMo (which is National Novel Writing Month) and this year is no exception. The fact is that every month of my life is NaNo, since the goal of NaNo is to write 50K words in a month. That’s not a novel in my corner of the fiction market, but it’s about…

  • Home with Lists

    The exciting thing about attending a conference like Novelists’ Ink is that I always end up with so many action items. Novelists’ Ink is also unusual among the conferences I attend because it’s only for published authors, most of whom write genre fiction. (A high percentage of members write either romance or mystery.) So, there…