Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • Terrible News

    Fatin Soufan runs a blog called Romance Reader at Heart. (RR@H Novelthoughts blog is right here.) She’s a real sweetie, one of those fixtures of the writing community and just such a nice lady that it breaks my heart to share this news with you. Fatin’s husband was shot and killed earlier this month. This…

  • Waiting

    Having another one of those times when things are busy behind the scenes and I’ve nothing to show you yet. The blog tour for FLYING BLIND is mostly booked, but the page listing all the events is still in process. I should have a nice link for you soon. The new cover for THE ROGUE…

  • 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…

  • Finding the Balance

    As a working writer – maybe just as a working person! – I have lots of things to juggle. There’s no shortage of items on my To Do list and sometimes it’s overwhelming. First of all, there’s the writing itself. I’ve been lucky enough in recent years to have been quite consistently on deadline, i.e.…

  • Language on the Move

    One of the things that is really interesting about a language like English is how it changes over time. English is changing constantly, as we create new words or new uses for existing words, then fold those new words into our existing vocabulary. This is why dictionaries release new updated editions at regular intervals, to…