Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Words Tomorrow

    Tomorrow, I’ll be signing books at the Words book festival in London, Ontario, from 10 AM – 2 PM. The booksigning will be held at Covent Garden. I’ll also be on a panel discussing Indie Publishing for Genre Fiction Writers with Zoe York and Carolyn Arnold at 11 AM. Here’s all my stuff, packed and…

  • Summer Writing 8

    The big finish. After seven weeks of writing full out, where do I stand? Last week, my tally was 73K words written in six weeks. This past week was insanely productive. As is so often the case with a book, Wulfe and Christina’s book poured from my fingertips as it came to its conclusion. I…

  • Summer Writing 7

    What a crazy week I had. It’s a summer thing, I think. There are so many distractions. Plus, this past Saturday was the date of a Writers Making Connections workshop on marketing that I hosted. We had a terrific presentation from Kobo, then a panel discussion with three authors – myself, Jessica E. Subject and…

  • Summer Writing 6

    Last week, I made good progress with my writing. I added about 12,000 new words to Wulfe and Christina’s story, The Crusader’s Heart, but this word count is deceptive. I was at the ugly bit, which happens with each book, when I have to scrub through everything I’ve written so far and ensure it’s consistent.…

  • Summer Writing 5

    I’m past the halfway mark on this seven week sprint and have written almost 50,000 new words on my various works-in-progress. (It’s actually 48,000 words.) I wrote 12,000 words on Project 2 (The Crusader’s Heart) this past week, because Wulfe and Christina wrestled me for every one of them. This is a typical working pattern…