Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Six Tasks Part 3 – Agents

    What do agents do? At the most basic level, agents negotiate publishing contracts for authors. As we  discussed earlier today, it’s characteristic for the agent or agency to have an agency boilerplate with any given publishing house, which is a better level at which to begin negotiations. In an ideal universe, the agent will negotiate…

  • Six Tasks Part 2 – Forming Alliances

    N.B. – This is a continuation of yesterday’s post, both from a workshop I taught in January to Toronto Romance Writers. Please read Six Tasks before continuing with today’s post. The other option I mentioned for balancing your pie chart is that of working with other professionals. Historically, this was what authors did. If we…

  • Six Tasks Part 1 – The Chart

    Several weeks ago, I taught a full day workshop on writing and publishing. I’ve decided to post some excerpts from the workshop here on the blog – although attendance at the workshop was really good, everyone in the world was not there. You might have missed it. This segment – Six Tasks – was really…

  • Phew!

    Home again, after teaching a full day workshop at Toronto Romance Writers on Saturday. I think it went well – I had fun, anyways – but now it’s back to my regular writing schedule. I like to teach and interact with people. It gets me out of my little writing cave and always gives me…

  • Resolutions

    Do you make resolutions at the beginning of each year? Do you stick to them? I tend to do a review in December of the year that has just passed, making mental lists of what worked and what didn’t work. From that, I try to work out ways to improve my life or my work…