Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • The Other Stuff

    One of the things that I often seem to discuss with new authors – or authors who have just made their first sale – is their productivity. That’s how much they write per day, per week, per year, and it’s important because deadlines are always set by the author. So, the author needs to know…

  • Silver Linings

    Good things can still happen in tough times, and we’ll talk about one of them today. The book market had been going through a lot of changes in the last six or seven years, and although that creates challenges for everyone in publishing, one of the nifty things that has been happening is that authors’…

  • Fave Movies

    Do you have a favourite movie? I have a whole bunch of them, and it’s interesting to analyze what’s similar between them. Recently, I found an old fave at the video store – do we still call them “video stores”, even though we rent DVD’s there now? Hmmm. – and brought it home for a…

  • Mark Your Calendars!

    I have the three public events associated with the residency finalized now, and wanted to let you know about them. As mentioned previously, I will be the writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library this fall – it’s the first time they’ve had a residency for the romance genre, so it would be great…

  • Shadow of the Typewriter II

    Fonts are another issue that fall out of the assumption that all authors will type their book manuscripts on typewriters. Or more specifically, font style is the focus of today’s post. Typewriters, typically, have or had only one font. It looked a whole lot like fixed pitch Courier, which was in fact designed to resemble…