Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • 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…

  • This Month at Romance Canadian Style

    It’s that time again. My monthly guest post at Romance Canadian Style is live today – it’s about winter getaways, and there’s a contest, too Come on over and say hello!

  • The Artist’s Way – Week Eight

    I haven’t been checking in a lot with you about The Artist’s Way, the twelve week program that I started this year on the week of October 6. but let’s do that now. It’s hard to believe that it’s week 8 already! That’s two-thirds of the way through the program. How are you doing? I’ve…