Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • The Production Cycle

    I’ve probably talked about this before, but I have page proofs to read this week, so that makes me think about it again. One of the things that I try to get aspiring authors to do when I teach workshops is to figure out how many books they can comfortably write per year. This is…

  • Stay Tuned

    As many of you know, the RWA National convention is booked to be at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville at the end of this July. This past weekend, Nashville had a tornado and a whole lot of rain. The levees broke and the hotel is flooded in some places. So, they’ve closed the hotel, cancelled…

  • Dragonfire Novella

    We have another Dragonfire surprise coming, although you won’t have to wait as long for this one. There’s a bit of a story behind it. When I was writing Niall’s book – WHISPER KISS, coming this August – I started to wonder about the Dragon’s Teeth Warriors. It has to be pretty tough to be…

  • Final Check – The Artist’s Way

    This was my week #12 – the final week – in the Artist’s Way program by Julia Cameron. As always, I’ve found it a really helpful program in keeping me writing happily. As always, I did really well with the morning pages and the exercises, and wasn’t so consistent about taking a weekly artist date.…

  • Back to School

    Yesterday, I visited a high school English class to talk about being a writer. We talked about publishing, about the use of pseudonyms, about getting ideas, about world-building and about the daily rhythm of being a working writer. It was a lot of fun, and the kids had lots of good questions. I’d never spoken…