Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: the paris notebook

  • Pressure

    I always wondered what it would be like to be a novelist and to have a deadline and no way of knowing how you would meet it. I imagined that it would be thrilling. Now I know it’s not. It’s a little bit challenging, and a little bit scary. But this is what I signed…

  • Crash

    Thanks First up, thank you to all the people who sent KDP advice via FB, email, and this website. It’s great to know so many of you care. Now the update. Al and I worked all weekend loading and deleting my novel from the Kindle Direct Publishing site. We ran into a few problems, but thought we had…

  • Writing Weekend

    This weekend I had three solid days of writing time. My husband was away on a golf weekend, and I didn’t need to cook or socialize. I just needed to get down to business. And boy did I ever. I just finished another revision of The Paris Notebook. It’s not ready to turn in yet–I…

  • Learning Curve

    What I learned from yesterday’s fiasco: Stress gives me a migraine. (I already knew that.) Sometimes it is best to drop a problem, watch a movie then get a good night’s sleep. (Knew that too.) Woke up feeling optimistic about fixing every issue with the Kindle upload, and without the urgent need to start working on it right away.…

  • Going Kindle Crazy

    Last report on Sugar Shack’s progress, I mentioned a little trouble with the cover. I checked back on the blog and saw that I’d made a cover image in 5 minutes for Paradise Fields with Picnik. Times have changed and there is no freeware that I could fine that did anything except frustrate me. Picnik…