Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Category: Marketing
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Business Bitch
Had an entry all set in my head to post about how some male writers mangle or manipulate when writing from the female point of view. I’ll save that for another day, because I’ve been working on the textbook business for a few hours now and I need to bitch about it. Buisness stuff distracts…
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Competition
I don’t even like typing that word. Rather than compete, I’d skip the race. Jane Austen is lucky, despite being dead, because, unlike today, there were not a whole lot of genius ladies writing in her day. She’s one of the world’s great writers, and not to take away from that, but really, computers replacing…
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In the Market
Turns out that “dramedy” is an actual term. TV Guide used it to describe Gilmore Girls. That’s all the research I got done yesterday, although I did take a stab at writing the cover letter and also figured out someone who writes close to what I hope Remodeling Eden turned out to be. Sadly, I…
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Proposal Woes
I’ve been testing the comments. After the first comment by a reader, that reader’s comments will auto-post. Whew. I’m really glad I don’t have to look at every comment before it’s posted. That would be a pain. Meanwhile, I have taken the box holding all my Remodeling Eden papers out of the closet. The synopsis…
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Genre
The kinds of novels I’ve written include linked stories, a very bad literary novel, a loosely autobiographical family saga, a mystery novella, a regency romance, a historical romance, a contemporary romance, and my most recent attempt at figuring out my niche, a women’s fiction manuscript. “Write what you love to read,” is advice I’ve heard…