Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • Artists’ Way Weekly Check-In

    I’ve had a great week with TAW. Missed my morning pages only one day – because it was a crazy, hectic day – and missed them terribly on that day. The good thing was that I wasn’t working that day, so it didn’t make as much difference as it might have done. My artist date…

  • Ch-Ch-Changes

    Yesterday, I heard that executive editor Tracy Farrell had left Harlequin and HQN. Tracy was my first editor. She bought my first book out of the slush (well, not the first book I wrote but the first one that sold). It was a medieval called THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE and this happened in April…

  • Week Two Check-In

    So, how is your journey with The Artist’s Way going? Did you do your artist date? What did you do? How about those morning pages? Doing them every day? I found it really easy to get back into the habit of doing the morning pages. I’ve done this program so many times and each time…

  • Week One Check-In

    So, did you start the Artists’ Way with me last week? This first chapter contains what might be my favourite metaphor of all time – that of stocking your pond with new images and new ideas so that you have a new store to use in your creative work. Are you doing your morning pages?…

  • That Time Again

    Over the past few days, there’s been a recurring theme in my conversations with other writers. Lots of them are struggling with getting that “spark”, or with finding the passion to write, or just getting to it amidst the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. And I have been recommending to these friends that they…