Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • Home Again!

    Hello, everyone. I’m back home and catching up. Wow – what a great conference they host at the New Jersey RWA each fall! If you are an aspiring writer and ever have the opportunity to go, please do so. There were many workshops – four or five tracks in parallel, seven at peak times –…

  • The Backlist Challenge

    As most of you know, many authors not only have regained rights to their backlist titles (I wrote a post on that a while ago called Silver Linings) and are re-releasing digital editions of those works. So far, I’ve done the easy part and re-released my two novellas from the MAMMOTH anthologies – “Coven of…

  • A Little Something on the Side

    This week I did an exercise from The Artist’s Way and I’ll tell you about that in a minute. First a bit of backstory, in case you aren’t that familiar with the mechanics of the publishing biz. In my zone of the publishing biz – writing fiction – authors are freelance workers who contract with…

  • TAW Check In – Week #8

    Is anyone following The Artist’s Way with me this time, thought? I’ve been doing the exercises and my morning pages. As usual, I’m having trouble getting around to my artist date – I seem to manage it on alternate weeks, which isn’t the plan!But even so, I am feeling more productive – which is a…

  • Storytelling Techniques

    We watched a movie last weekend which got me to thinking. It was a foreign film, English title MOSTLY MARTHA, in German with English subtitles. The story is of the precocious-child-thaws-icy-heart-of-single-perfectionist-making-life-and-love-possible – the protagonist is a chef in a very chichi restaurant. (The shots of food were gorgeous, btw. Eat before you watch it.) What…