Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Category: blog
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Chapter Five
Had a great time reviewing my books (so far) and putting them in chronological order. I have 15 now. I was still saying “a dozen or so” when asked. In case you did not know, this is a blog memoir (book 16) about my books. Memoirs tend to center around one subject. Like Mary Karr…
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Chapter Four
My publishing career took a huge leap forward when I began publishing, both with KDP and WRP. (Kindle Digital Publishing) and (Wild Rose Press). The Paris Notebook, a stand alone, published by WRP’s “Champagne Rose” category. I was reading lots of chick lit at that time but I also wrote short stories that were more…
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Chapter Three
Before my mother loaned me her typewriter, she bought me a diary. I filled it. Finished it, then bought my own notebooks and that’s how I wrote until she said “I have a typewriter you can use” and I did. In that way, I owe my mom my writing career and she is my biggest…
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Chapter Two
Memoir This is my first book, which I wrote for my creative writing students. It was originally a stack of what we teachers call “handouts.” I added to that as I went along and there’s a revised version with internet publishing advice. It needs another revision because KDP really took off. This book is free…
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Memoir Chapter One
Many friends have sheltered me. I’ve also slept in cars parked in corn fields and on patchy grass highway overpasses with just a ragged quilt for a cover, and once, on the library lawn in my hometown, Taylor, Michigan. We moved frequently when I was a child, but never far. Finding or making a loving…