Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • Guest Post at the Bookshelf Sophisticate

    One of the fun things about writing my paranormal YA trilogy, The Dragon Diaries, was the blog tours I did to promote it. I “met” so many reviewers and bloggers who loved books, and their enthusiasm was infectious. Recently one of those bloggers, Katelyn of The Bookshelf Sophisticate, emailed me to find out what I…

  • The Idea Fairy

    I was very happy to have a visit last week from the Idea Fairy. She stopped in – as she often does – just when I was on the verge of sleep. She whispered two sentences in my ear, and my eyes flew open. I knew who was responsible for them and liked their potential…

  • Covers for Double Trouble

    Once upon a time, I wrote a contemporary romance, in first person, about a woman who had tons of attitude and a lot of secrets. She also had a twin sister, and when her sister left her husband and kids, the heroine of my story found herself stepping into the void her sister left. She…

  • Blog Games

    You might have noticed that the look of the blog changed this morning. This is phase one of a process that will take me some time—I’m going to amalgamate my websites and my blog into one handy site. I’ll have a designer do custom templates for me, but this one is a good place to…

  • To Do Lists

    Every time I go to a conference, I come home with a To Do list. This has always been the case, but my lists have become longer with conferences in the past year or so. RWA Atlanta was no different – and I still have list items from BEA in May and even Novelists’ Ink…