Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Blogging at Novelists Ink

    I have a blog post at Novelists’ Ink’s blog today, called The Trouble With “Free”. It’s about the marketing practice of offering free digital books for promotion. Come on by and share your thoughts.

  • Six Tasks Part 3 – Agents

    What do agents do? At the most basic level, agents negotiate publishing contracts for authors. As we  discussed earlier today, it’s characteristic for the agent or agency to have an agency boilerplate with any given publishing house, which is a better level at which to begin negotiations. In an ideal universe, the agent will negotiate…

  • Six Tasks Part 2 – Forming Alliances

    N.B. – This is a continuation of yesterday’s post, both from a workshop I taught in January to Toronto Romance Writers. Please read Six Tasks before continuing with today’s post. The other option I mentioned for balancing your pie chart is that of working with other professionals. Historically, this was what authors did. If we…

  • Six Tasks Part 1 – The Chart

    Several weeks ago, I taught a full day workshop on writing and publishing. I’ve decided to post some excerpts from the workshop here on the blog – although attendance at the workshop was really good, everyone in the world was not there. You might have missed it. This segment – Six Tasks – was really…

  • The Question of Cover Art

    One of the really interesting challenges in publishing and selling books is ensuring that the cover art is evocative of the book inside, and that it appeals to readers. In traditional publishing, this is the responsibility of the publisher, but when we authors publish (or re-publish) our books, we need to think about covers, too.…