Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • What I Miss About Traditional Publishing

    Although I am now an indie author, I was traditionally published—i.e. published by big publishing houses based in New York City—for twenty years. It was almost exactly the twentieth anniversary of my first sale when I stepped away from traditional publishing. I sold my first book to a publisher in April 1992, and declined the…

  • Summer Writing 2

    What a great week I had. Very productive, and an exciting adventure. First off, it was wonderful to be charging away on brand new projects. Instead of finishing up a linked series, or writing the book of a secondary character who had long deserved to have his or her story told, this is all fresh…

  • 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!

  • Summer Writing

    Each year, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is held in November. The goal is to write 50,000 words (which is really only half of a book in my corner of the world) during the month. There’s a fabulous community that comes together for that event and I enjoy participating each year. The thing is that…

  • All That Is Gold…

    Did you finish the sentence? That’s the first line from a poem in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It alludes to the hidden identity of Aragorn and the legacy of his lineage. Here it is: All that is gold does not glitter; Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is…