Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • 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…

  • Into Every Blog Tour…

    …some real blog posts must fall. This is one of them. In the midst of all this release promo – and that upcoming holiday stuff too – I’ve been writing a book. EMBER’S KISS will be #8 in the Dragonfire series of paranormal romances and it will be published in October 2012. The writing of…

  • Negativity

    I had the misfortune this week to talk to someone about writing and publishing who was so negative that she took my breath away. Not only is publishing changing for the worse, but publishers are going out of business, everything is going to the internet (which she hates), and it’s “impossible” for a new author…

  • Career Day

    Off to Career Day at a local high school today, to talk about being a writer. I like talking to kids. They often have interesting – even unexpected – questions. There can be good energy in these encounters. Will I inspire them or depress them about the future of publishing? We’ll see!