Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Author Branding

    A few days ago, Teresa Wilde posted a link to this blog post on the FF&P listserve we’re both on. I wish I’d seen it sooner. This author, Maureen Johnson, is talking about not wanting to be an author brand, right here. I also dislike the idea of author brands. I thought this was because…

  • Disastrous Dining Room

    How does your dining room look? Mine looks as if a print shop exploded in it. I’m in the middle of organizing a mailing for bookstores and readers groups, which will go out in the new year. The boxes of postcards were everywhere, it seemed, so I thought it would be a great idea to…

  • Radio Silence

    It’s been quiet here on the blog, but since some of you are becoming concerned, I thought it time for an update. The main reason I haven’t been posting is an obvious one – there isn’t much news. We’re in that eye-of-the-hurricane between release dates when there isn’t much to share. There’s a lot going…

  • Here’s Herman

    I almost forgot that I’d promised to introduce you all to Herman. Here he is: Herman was a gift from Elsie. Elsie has written to me in the past, but we’d never met in person before. It was fun to meet her, especially as we later had the chance to have a good talk about…

  • Grammar and the Paranormal Writer

    Since I’m up to my eyes in a copy edit this week, you all get to hear a bit about it. First, let me explain part of the production process. A copy edit is a phase of the production cycle for a book. After the book is delivered and revised and the acquiring editor approves…