Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Miss Me?

    I took a little time away from the computer and the internet in the past couple of weeks, so the blog posts slowed down a bit. I didn’t go away but instead got around to a lot of things that had been waiting on me. Weeds were pulled. Mums were planted. Seeds were gathered. Pears…

  • The Day Job

    One of the questions that is asked most frequently at writing workshops is “when can I quit my day job?” This is a reasonable question. People who are writing books in the evenings seldom have jobs as novelists. (Where are those jobs? I want one!) They often are doing something else and dream of the…

  • Busy Week

    This week, I’m finishing a book. This is always an intense phase of the writing process for me, so blog posts will be scarce for a couple of days. Be sure to stop back Thursday – I have a guest author, and will be appearing on her blog, too. And if you’re curious about this…

  • Finding Your Niche

    This week, you get two writing/publishing posts back to back, because I went guest blogging on Monday instead of Tuesday. Don’t worry – tomorrow I have a guest author visiting! This post has grown out of that discussion at the TRW meeting on Saturday. We were talking about the differences between writing to the market…

  • Writers’ Groups

    I went to my writers’ group meeting last Saturday (that’s Toronto Romance Writers) and had a wonderful time. Actually, I participated in a panel discussion about publishing and writing. It turned out to be one of those invigorating discussions, in which  lots of perspectives were expressed and lots of experience was shared. I came home,…