Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Phew!

    Home again, after teaching a full day workshop at Toronto Romance Writers on Saturday. I think it went well – I had fun, anyways – but now it’s back to my regular writing schedule. I like to teach and interact with people. It gets me out of my little writing cave and always gives me…

  • POD Progress

    One of the exciting things I’ve been doing this month is putting together the files for new print editions of the Jewels of Kinfairlie. These will be print on demand editions, which means that they will be trade paperbacks – and also more expensive than the original mass market editions. I know that there are…

  • Visiting Books Make Me Happy

    Today I’m visiting Jennifer Morris at her blog, Books Make Me Happy, for Music Mondays. Yup, I’m talking about music. Come on over and say hello – here’s the permalink.

  • Resolutions

    Do you make resolutions at the beginning of each year? Do you stick to them? I tend to do a review in December of the year that has just passed, making mental lists of what worked and what didn’t work. From that, I try to work out ways to improve my life or my work…

  • The Queen Bee’s Tips to Negotiation

    Negotiating is part of an author’s life, and it’s one thing I’ve had to learn to do better over the years. I realized this past week that I had the best possible advisor sleeping at my feet and never realized as much. The Queen Bee – our standard poodle – is a master negotiator. You…