Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Home Again!

    Hello, everyone. I’m back home and catching up. Wow – what a great conference they host at the New Jersey RWA each fall! If you are an aspiring writer and ever have the opportunity to go, please do so. There were many workshops – four or five tracks in parallel, seven at peak times –…

  • Off to NJ RWA’s “Put Your Heart in a Book” Conference

    It’s going to be quiet on the blog this week. I’m off to the New Jersey RWA chapter’s annual conference, with a few stops on the way. I’ll be teaching a workshop on Saturday – “The Holy Grail of Voice” – and there will be a booksigning open to the public on Saturday afternoon. I…

  • The Backlist Challenge

    As most of you know, many authors not only have regained rights to their backlist titles (I wrote a post on that a while ago called Silver Linings) and are re-releasing digital editions of those works. So far, I’ve done the easy part and re-released my two novellas from the MAMMOTH anthologies – “Coven of…

  • Another Foreign Movie

    I like watching movies, not just for entertainment value but to discover new storytelling techniques. Movies are often innovative in presenting character, or in twisting the plot, or simply in terms of presenting information. My husband has been haunting the Foreign Films section lately, and has made some really good discoveries. His most recent find…

  • A Little Something on the Side

    This week I did an exercise from The Artist’s Way and I’ll tell you about that in a minute. First a bit of backstory, in case you aren’t that familiar with the mechanics of the publishing biz. In my zone of the publishing biz – writing fiction – authors are freelance workers who contract with…