Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Schoolhouse Rock

    Do you remember the Schoolhouse Rock videos? They used to play instead of commercials during the Saturday morning cartoons. I used to watch some cartoons that I didn’t particularly like, just in the hope of seeing more SR videos. For some reason, I started to think about Conjunction Junction the other night and went looking…

  • Recent Movies

    We’ve watched some interesting movies lately, so I thought I’d share as much with you. Maybe you haven’t seen these ones. Byron – this was a lovely period piece by the BBC. I think it was made originally for television as it is in two episodes. As always with the BBC, the period details are…

  • Companion Volumes

    One of the interesting things that fiction authors sometimes do is create a companion volume or a guide to their fictional world. I think these are really cool, but know that it is very difficult to get a traditional publisher interested in publishing one. I’ve just bought one, based on the mystery series by Donna…

  • Another Famous Book

    A while ago, we talked about bestsellers, and I mentioned that I seldom read them. That’s because I’m usually disappointed by these books that catch the world by storm, and that’s depressing. There was one happy exception this year, so I thought we’d talk about it today. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is more…

  • The Domino Effect

    One of the interesting things about living in an old house is that very few changes are simple. There’s always a cascading To Do list that results from trying to make a single modification. For example, in the spring, we finally found a light fixture for the foyer. Up until now, it’s had what Mr.…