Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • What’s In A Name?

    Last week, we started to talk about what lessons and practices can be carried from traditional print publishing and which ones are less useful in a digital publishing environment. I saved the topic of author brands—i.e. the name an author uses on his or her work—for its own post this week, because it’s such a…

  • Convergence

    One of the things I’ve noticed lately is how much indie publishing is becoming similar to traditional publishing. You all know that I usually write in two subgenres, alternating between series. This helps me to see an ongoing series with a fresh perspective each time I come back to it. In an ideal universe, I’d…

  • Thoughts from BEA

    I had an interesting time at Book Expo America, primarily because the wholesale book show was so different than the last time I attended—and that was only two years ago. First off, it was a smaller show. The booths of Big Six and midsize publishers were smaller in size, yet a lot of smaller publishers…

  • Simplify

    I’ve probably mentioned to you before that I belong to a little local group of authors. It’s not an official organization and we don’t have any program—we just meet most months, have lunch, and talk. Sometimes we talk about writing, sometimes about publishing, sometimes about other topics. It’s interesting and it’s fun. We have some…

  • Writers Making Connections

    I belong to a local writing group that meets most months. We have lunch and talk about our writing, our books, and the publishing business at large (as well as other things). We get loud, we have fun and we share a lot of experience with each other. I’m convinced that our new world of…