Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Summer Writing 4

    I had a pretty awesome week, although it doesn’t show up in the word count. Only 10,000 new words, but I was researching. I LOVE this part of the process of writing a book and totally dug in this past week. It’s a predictable development and happened right on time – after the first flush…

  • Summer Writing 3

    Well, I didn’t have a very good writing week. In fact, I didn’t manage to do any writing at all. 😦 That’s because instead of being writer-me, I had to be publisher-me. What did I accomplish? • The Crusader’s Bride was released. Yay! An on sale date means a bunch of promo jobs, from updating…

  • What I Miss About Traditional Publishing

    Although I am now an indie author, I was traditionally published—i.e. published by big publishing houses based in New York City—for twenty years. It was almost exactly the twentieth anniversary of my first sale when I stepped away from traditional publishing. I sold my first book to a publisher in April 1992, and declined the…

  • Summer Writing 2

    What a great week I had. Very productive, and an exciting adventure. First off, it was wonderful to be charging away on brand new projects. Instead of finishing up a linked series, or writing the book of a secondary character who had long deserved to have his or her story told, this is all fresh…

  • Summer Writing

    Each year, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is held in November. The goal is to write 50,000 words (which is really only half of a book in my corner of the world) during the month. There’s a fabulous community that comes together for that event and I enjoy participating each year. The thing is that…