Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Lost in a Book

    Today, I got lost in a book. It wasn’t planned and it certainly wasn’t expected. The book was one of my own, which I hadn’t read in a long time. The idea was that I would be formatting it and getting it ready for republication – the reality was that I started reading and couldn’t…

  • Happy Fourth of July!

    Here’s wishing a happy Fourth to everyone south of the border. May you have a fabulous, safe, red-white-and-blue day!

  • Stuff Comes – and Stuff Goes

    This week, I’m having a stay-cation. Of course, I can’t completely stay away from the computer (or the internet!) but I’m focusing on things other than writing and publishing this week. Job one is to weed the garden and get the delivered mulch into the beds. Job two is to clean out closets. Ugh. We’ve…

  • Happy Canada Day

    Today is Canada Day, our equivalent of the American Independence Day. I think it’s cool that our celebrations are almost concurrent on this one. Here’s a wonderful piece from Tom Brokaw about Canada. The photography is beautiful and it’s quite an informative piece. Enjoy – and have a happy Canada Day!  

  • Another Interesting Book

    A while ago, I saw the movie Anonymous. If you haven’t seen it, it’s either historical fiction or historical speculation – the idea is that somebody else wrote Shakespeare’s plays, specifically a nobleman named Edward de Vere. The movie told his story. It was beautifully photographed and very evocative of Elizabethan England. The chronology of…