Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Old Girls

    Well, it happened again. Against all expectation – and every resolution – I brought home another old sewing machine. There’s just something about these old girls that I can’t resist. I had seen this one before, but thought she was too expensive – I don’t, after all, really need another old sewing machine. The vendor’s…

  • Flotsam & Jetsam

    I’m having one of those months, apparently, and it’s my own fault. I’m someone who isn’t crazy about doing the admin stuff. There’s always a pile of stuff on the floor beside my desk that needs to be filed. (Ugh. Filing.) There’s always another pile beside it of things that need doing – guest blog…

  • Appreciate A Dragon Day

    Honest and true – someone told me last summer that this was an official “day”. It was Maggie Robinson, dropping by to comment on a guest blog post. The day I stopped by her blog, she had a pre-Raphaelite image in her post – I’m inclined to believe anything said with authority by anyone who…

  • The Rollercoaster Analogy

    I do love my analogies, and on the way home Saturday – after teaching that workshop – I realized the other half of one I had begun earlier that day. Let’s close the circle. We were talking about what readers love about romance novels, and my theory is that one of the things that brings…

  • Workshop Post-Op

    I taught my workshop Saturday, but there was lots of good discussion and we didn’t get to everything. It’s funny but when I do my practice run, it always goes more quickly, probably because my dog doesn’t ask questions. (She already knows everything about publishing, you know.) Here are some links to topics that have…