Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • 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…

  • Happy Canada Day

    As is fitting for a celebratory day, we’ve got company: I’m happy to have found a toad in my garden. We had one for ages that stayed around a cedar bush that died last year. I’ve wondered where he went and how he was. Mr. Math says this one is older, so maybe it’s the…

  • More Goodreads

    Goodreads doesn’t have an elegant way for authors to link pseudonyms. If an author (like me) writes under multiple names, he or she must create multiple Goodreads accounts to claim those multiple names. They’ve said for years that they were working on changing this, so for years, I’ve only had my Claire Delacroix Goodreads account.…