Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Happy Valentine’s Day

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! Here’s hoping you have some special plans with your sweetie to celebrate the day. What’s your favourite thing to do, gift to give or gift to receive on Valentine’s Day? Is it the same choice as for other romantic occasions, or special just for this day? I’m a…

  • Finding the Balance

    As a working writer – maybe just as a working person! – I have lots of things to juggle. There’s no shortage of items on my To Do list and sometimes it’s overwhelming. First of all, there’s the writing itself. I’ve been lucky enough in recent years to have been quite consistently on deadline, i.e.…

  • A New Reading Scheme

    I’ve always read a lot. That seems to be the case for a lot of writers, that they were avid readers first. But since I began to write and publish my work, I’ve been reading much less. Part of it is that I’ve tended not to read other fiction while I’m writing a book –…

  • Where Would You Be?

    If you could be anywhere this morning, with just the snap of your fingers, where would you be? I’m looking at a whole lot of snow and thinking that I’ve never been to Hawaii. If it could be done with a fingersnap, I’d go this morning. And take my laptop, so I could keep writing…

  • Language on the Move

    One of the things that is really interesting about a language like English is how it changes over time. English is changing constantly, as we create new words or new uses for existing words, then fold those new words into our existing vocabulary. This is why dictionaries release new updated editions at regular intervals, to…