Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Reading/Watching

  • Visiting The Midnight Garden

    I’m participating in a Valentine’s Day event at the Midnight Garden blog – it’s called the Literary Swoon. Authors talk about books they love. So, come on over and say hello. My post is right here.

  • A Bit About Gawain

    Since THE SCOUNDREL will be live on Kindle sometime this week, I thought I’d talk a bit more about the book itself. It’s the second book in my Rogues of Ravensmuir series – the first book is THE ROGUE – a series in which I wanted to try some different things in historical romance. Fiction…

  • Quiet on the Home Front

    Shhhhhh, it’s as quiet as a library around here. I’ve been writing this week. A lot. It’s just lovely. I’m having a wonderful time, finishing up Dragonfire #7. I’m tucking in the ends, writing the last great sex scene, writing the last great dragon fight, tweaking the conflicts and tidying up the corners. It’s an…

  • Unreliable Narrators

    The use of unreliable narrators is a storytelling technique found more often in other genres than in romance. The idea is that the person telling the story doesn’t tell the reader everything – the protagonist either lies outright or lies by omission. This is a breach of the fundamental and implied trust between reader and…

  • A New Reading Scheme

    I’ve always read a lot. That seems to be the case for a lot of writers, that they were avid readers first. But since I began to write and publish my work, I’ve been reading much less. Part of it is that I’ve tended not to read other fiction while I’m writing a book –…