Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • 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!

  • Eureka!

    One of the most common questions asked of authors is “where do you get your ideas?” I never have a good answer for this. Telling people that I have too many ideas and hate having the choose between them doesn’t ever seem to be the answer that is expected. The thing about ideas is that…

  • Happy Dance

    I had some exciting news last night – my editor has approved the manuscript for BLAZING THE TRAIL, book #3 in my paranormal YA trilogy. I’m happy that Zoë’s story is told, and I’m happy with the books. On the other hand, writing the Dragon Diaries has been quite the adventure and I’m a bit…

  • Writer’s Block

    I’ve been thinking about Annie’s comment on Monday, and on writing more blog posts about writing. Since I don’t have a guest booked for today, and it is NaNoWriMo, I thought it might be interesting to talk about the great boogeyman that plagues writers. (Or at least gives us nightmares.) Writers’ block. Writer’s block means…

  • Thoughts on Writers

    I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and decided to toss it out to all of you today. Do you think writers are becoming boring? I belong to a number of writers’ groups and listserves. Once upon a time, these were pretty interesting places to hang out. We’d talk about publishers and their programs…