Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Schoolhouse Rock

    Do you remember the Schoolhouse Rock videos? They used to play instead of commercials during the Saturday morning cartoons. I used to watch some cartoons that I didn’t particularly like, just in the hope of seeing more SR videos. For some reason, I started to think about Conjunction Junction the other night and went looking…

  • Books!

    The Coxwells arrived today. Don’t they look great? You can read about these books on my site, right here. I have to go and rearrange my bookshelves again…

  • 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…