Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • 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…

  • Reminder

    Just wanted to remind you all that there’s now an Out-Takes page on my Dragonfire website. The first scene to turn up there was originally in the Prologue to WINTER KISS – but it won’t appear in the final book. I like it, though, and it will tell you a bit more about Magnus. You…