Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Marketing

  • Wednesday is Release Day!

    It has been a while since I released a book, and in that time so much has changed. I actually forgot to prepare. Totally focused on my weekend appearance at a big festival, I forgot the actual date, and only remembered it was before the big event. Then my mom got very ill very quickly…

  • Diana Does It Again

    Diana, my cover artist, is an…artist! I would have never thought to reflect the sky in the water. She brightened up what I thought might be a too dark image after my fun beach cover from Jane 1. Jane 2 is more edgy than cozy. Although there’s also some wonderful romance. And while the murder…

  • More Covid Marketing

    It took all weekend, but I managed to make a Twitter post on Canva! Then I uploaded it to Twitter via Canva’s direct “post to Twitter now.” That was a mistake as I could not add my buy link to my tweet post. A problem with Canva is you can’t put the buy link into…

  • Solving a Marketing Mystery

    Solving a Marketing Mystery

    Blue Lake Christmas Mystery is on sale this month! 99 cents on Kindle started yesterday, Nook and iPhone also 99 cents starting today. I don’t know about other writers, but I’ve never earned a penny from Nook or from iPhone. My publisher makes my books available on all the eBook sites; it’s a mystery why…

  • The Social Side of Writing

    I’m still reading and journaling with Colleen Story’s book Writer Get Noticed. It’s been so enlightening. Light bulb after light bulb. Today I worked on identifying my strengths as a person and as a writer. I don’t focus on my strengths very often. I take them for granted. Maybe because they’ve hardly changed since I…