Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving today to all of you in America. I hope your travels are safe, and your travelers arrive safely. Have a wonderful day! Tomorrow, of course, is Black Friday, so there will be a little sale…

  • The Artist’s Way – Week Eight

    I haven’t been checking in a lot with you about The Artist’s Way, the twelve week program that I started this year on the week of October 6. but let’s do that now. It’s hard to believe that it’s week 8 already! That’s two-thirds of the way through the program. How are you doing? I’ve…

  • NaNoWriMo

    This year, again, I officially signed up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I had to finish The Warrior’s Prize, and was running behind after going to Novelists’ Inc in Florida at the end of October. I wanted the motivation of NaNoWriMo to get my butt into my chair and put those pages down! I…

  • Shhhhhh…..

    It’s been very quiet here on the blog, because I’ve been so busy since getting home from the Novelist’s Inc. conference in Florida. There’s the usual travel thing of needing to get organized once I get home, and catch up on laundry etc., but NINC is special because I learn so very much. I come…

  • Back from the Beach

    Last weekend, I attended the Novelists’ Ink conference, which was held in St. Pete’s Beach in Florida. As well as the conference being fun and informative—and a chance to see good friends—there was The Beach! I walked the beach every day and here are some of my pix. We had truly gorgeous weather, over 80…