Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • NaNoWriMo

    This year, again, I officially signed up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I had to finish The Warrior’s Prize, and was running behind after going to Novelists’ Inc in Florida at the end of October. I wanted the motivation of NaNoWriMo to get my butt into my chair and put those pages down! I…

  • Visiting with Karen Blake-Hall

    Karen Blake-Hall and I used to be in the same writing group, and I’ve always enjoyed talking to her. Recently, I did an interview with her and it’s posted on her blog today. You can read it right here.

  • Tangled Webs

    I’ve been thinking about tangled webs this past weekend, because I had two on my hands. You might recall that I had found some wool at the thrift store for an excellent price a while back. This past week, I was working on the edits for Abyss and decided to dye some of that yarn,…

  • 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…