Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: fiction

  • The New Shape of Fiction

    Here we are back at Wild West Thursday again. I think I told you that I was taking an online course called The Future of Storytelling. It was interesting in many ways, and in combination with my ruminations on the changing face of digital publishing, I’ve been thinking about the new shape of fiction. If…

  • Popular Fiction

    One of the things I’m constantly saying when I teach workshops is that popular fiction – like romance – is a mirror of popular culture. Sub-genres become popular, then less so, as a reflection of our concerns in our day-to-day lives. This makes sense to me – when we’re working out some facet of gender…

  • A Wonderful Book

    Yesterday, I did something that I haven’t done for a while – I plucked a book from my To Be Read pile and fell right in to the story. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a lot of time to read fiction, and even longer since I’ve picked up a book that grabbed…