Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • The Queen Bee’s Tips to Negotiation

    Negotiating is part of an author’s life, and it’s one thing I’ve had to learn to do better over the years. I realized this past week that I had the best possible advisor sleeping at my feet and never realized as much. The Queen Bee – our standard poodle – is a master negotiator. You…

  • Into Every Blog Tour…

    …some real blog posts must fall. This is one of them. In the midst of all this release promo – and that upcoming holiday stuff too – I’ve been writing a book. EMBER’S KISS will be #8 in the Dragonfire series of paranormal romances and it will be published in October 2012. The writing of…

  • Amazon Author Page URLs

    I’m not sure why I need these, or how exactly they’re different from the old Amazon Author Pages, but I do have them and here they are. Deborah Cooke Amazon Author Page Claire Delacroix Amazon Author Page And now you know. 🙂

  • Eureka!

    One of the most common questions asked of authors is “where do you get your ideas?” I never have a good answer for this. Telling people that I have too many ideas and hate having the choose between them doesn’t ever seem to be the answer that is expected. The thing about ideas is that…

  • Writer’s Block

    I’ve been thinking about Annie’s comment on Monday, and on writing more blog posts about writing. Since I don’t have a guest booked for today, and it is NaNoWriMo, I thought it might be interesting to talk about the great boogeyman that plagues writers. (Or at least gives us nightmares.) Writers’ block. Writer’s block means…