Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • RWA PRO Mentor of the Year

    I told you a while back that I had won the RWA PRO Mentor of the Year Award. This is a tremendous honour, and one that really touches me. The award is being presented this morning at the PRO Retreat at the RWA National conference in Anaheim. My friend, Sylvia Day, is accepting the award…

  • New Publishing Portal at KOBO

    Yesterday, KOBO unlocked the doors to their much-anticipated publishing portal, Writing Life. I registered and uploaded five books last night – this morning, they are live for sale and look good. I had been using the Smashwords portal to get to KOBO, but now can upload directly. The first five books are those which hadn’t…

  • Why Go Indie?

    (I wrote this post for the newsletter of my writing chapter, but thought you might enjoy it too.) Technical innovation has recently evoked a huge change in the business of publishing as we’ve come to know and love it. The emergence of portals for digital self-publishing and the distribution of ebooks published through those portals…

  • Optimism & THE RENEGADE’S HEART

    Well, it appears that I have miscalculated in terms of getting THE RENEGADE’S HEART out into the world. I was late getting the book to my editor, but had hoped we would make up the time. Instead, I lost my place in her queue – which is only reasonable – and now I won’t hear…

  • Kudos!

    I received some incredible news this weekend. I won the RWA PRO Mentor of the year award! This is a pretty amazing thing, and I’m quite overwhelmed by it all. Here’s part of the notification letter from Maura Troy: “…I am pleased to tell you that, based on a wonderful nomination letter received from Kim…