Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • 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…

  • Rituals

    This weekend, I finished Murdoch and Isabella’s book, THE RENEGADE’S HEART, and sent it off to my editor. I’m hoping that she’s not too backed up, and that she finds the ms pretty clean, and that we can still get it published this month. Fingers crossed! But finishing a book means rituals for me. There…

  • Happy Anniversary

    This week, one of my assigned exercises in The Artist’s Way is to create a list of creative accomplishments. (This is a variation of a wonderful exercise that Julia Cameron calls the Ta DA! List. Not many of us instinctively make this list – we go with the To Do list – but we should…

  • Why “Free” Works

    Last Friday, I promised to explain the marketing strategy being used by so many indie authors of making books free for a limited period of time. To many, it seems counter-intuitive that giving books away could help to sell books immediately afterward, but it actually does. There are two reasons why “free” works. The first…