Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Category: Blue Lake Series
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Nine
Last Memoir Entry Not to be confused with “last blog” as that will happen when I am no longer physically or emotionally able. That is not yet. Just…I wrote many posts during the Blue Lake series and Word Press has conveniently saved them all in the archives. Really the big deal for me already happened:…
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Twitter Book Marketing
This past week a friend pointed out to me that since it’s December, I should be marketing my Blue Lake Christmas Mystery on Twitter.I’m of two minds about book marketing on Twitter. Mostly, I don’t do it. I depend on blog posts to indirectly indicate that hey guess what I write books too! So she…
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The Character Who Never Leaves
I should have known from the minute she elbowed her way into Blue Heaven, acting like she owned the joint, that Lily would be trouble. She was 17 and secretive, a minor character who thought she should have a bigger part. I gave her a love interest, but it turned out she had issues with boys.…
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Compelling Minor Characters
Lily White, the protagonist of my WIP, lives in Detroit and works as a P.I. She used to have a very different life, in Blue Lake, my fictional tourist town on Lake Huron in northern Michigan. Lily started as a minor character in my first Blue Lake novel, Blue Heaven. Even in that book, she…
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Mystery & Me
Blame it on Nancy Drew. She was my first love (but far from my last) in the mystery genre. In the 1960s, as a young girl, I collected her books and began a life long commitment to binge reading. Which led to writing, which led to writing a mystery. My first mystery, Love and Death…