Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Widgets and Books

    Someone made a comment to me at WotS on Sunday which has been rattling around in my mind ever since. The comment was to the effect that some authors write too many books per year in order to ensure their income, and that they might be better off writing fewer books and doing a better…

  • Word on the Street

    I had a great day at Word on the Street in Toronto yesterday. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect, and there were a lot of people in attendance. I spent a few hours in the Toronto Romance Writers‘ booth, plus had time to wander around. I bought a lot of books. (So much for…

  • Seasons

    I love the changing seasons of the year – and where I live, those changes are pretty dramatic! It’s only recently, though, that I’ve realized that my work habits and creativity change with those seasons. September here is cool. The air changes, becoming drier and chillier. Nights can be cold. It’s time to get out…

  • 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…