Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • Summer Writing 2

    What a great week I had. Very productive, and an exciting adventure. First off, it was wonderful to be charging away on brand new projects. Instead of finishing up a linked series, or writing the book of a secondary character who had long deserved to have his or her story told, this is all fresh…

  • Summer Writing

    Each year, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is held in November. The goal is to write 50,000 words (which is really only half of a book in my corner of the world) during the month. There’s a fabulous community that comes together for that event and I enjoy participating each year. The thing is that…

  • More Goodreads

    Goodreads doesn’t have an elegant way for authors to link pseudonyms. If an author (like me) writes under multiple names, he or she must create multiple Goodreads accounts to claim those multiple names. They’ve said for years that they were working on changing this, so for years, I’ve only had my Claire Delacroix Goodreads account.…

  • Writers Making Connections – June Event

    I’m organizing three events for writers this summer in Stratford Ontario, and the first one is just over a week away. The first Writers Making Connections event focuses on the editorial process. We have a freelance editor, Laura Shin, speaking to us first about what an editor can do for your book, then a panel…

  • Going Forward

    There have been some more questions about my plans for books from this point out, so I thought I’d review the plans again to keep you all up to date. This includes not just writing plans, but pricing, too. First of all, I’ll be publishing The Champions of St. Euphemia series by Claire Delacroix, beginning…