Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • 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…

  • 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…