Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Blank Books

    We’ve talked about blank books before, and generally agreed that we like them. A lot. No surprise that I’ve acquired a few more. I was in the stationary store and they had a new size that I thought would be handy – that in-between size, which is big enough to write entire paragraphs on each…

  • Making the Most of Writing Contests

    (I wrote this article for my RWA chapter newsletter, but thought some of you might find it interesting as well.) There are lots of contests for published authors, so many that it would be easy to spend a good bit of money on entering them all each year. And if you didn’t win, you might…

  • Famous People

    This week, both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson passed away. Both deaths made me sad. I’d read several articles about Fawcett’s fight with cancer that shook me – remember that iconic poster of her in the red swimsuit, laughing? It was hard to believe that she could be sick – or in her sixties. It…

  • Moving Targets

    Here’s a meatier post for all of you – with many thanks for your patience. I know things have been a bit lean in terms of content around the blog lately, but now that Niall is well on his way to his H.E.A., I can get back into my rhythm again. I was thinking this…

  • Spoonful of Sugar

    It’s been a pretty crazy spring for me, for us, and for a lot of people I know. Stress seems to be in the air, and all the doom and gloom in the media probably doesn’t help our attitudes very much. And while there are bad things happening to good people, I think it’s easy…