Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Author: Cynthia Harrison
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By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…
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All Kinds of Weather
I love Florida truly except in hurricane season. It wasn’t always this way. Apparently there’s a new “hurricane alley” and the Gulf Coast is it. My dad’s town of St Pete got hit with Helene, the first time in a hundred years there was such flooding and loss of life for his city. My dad…
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Endings and New Beginnings
September is a full month for me but not as full as it used to be when I was a teacher. My family has four birthdays in September (and we are not all that big of a family!) I have a writer’s conference at the end of the month. My writing group meets, too, the…
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Writing on Vacation
We have been together for forty years. We’ve got vacations figured out. Um. But like writing, vacations can inspire revision. Over and over as times change, as we change. For example, road trips. We have been doing them our entire married life. Camping with the boys when they were small all the way to here…
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July Writing Projects
I signed the contract for my first historical novel, a Regency romance. Meanwhile, I am slowly working on the last Jane in St. Pete book. After signing a contract, there are tasks to do along with edits. My favorite task is suggestions for book covers. I have worked with the same cover artist for a…