Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Marketing

  • Twitter $ale$

    I go back and forth with love/hate Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads. This blog has disgusted me a few times too. When I feel sick of some social media, I just leave it alone. At first, with Twitter, I thought, well, this is something I have to do. I have to be my own publicist for…

  • The Rules of Romance

    I have a guest post right here at my friend Terri’s website. Some people are just so nice and encouraging, and she’s one of them. She offered to host me, she helped me brainstorm an idea, and it turned out to be something I really wanted to blog about. It’s all about what I learned about…

  • Story Madness

    It may have been a little crazy of me to think pulling a subplot from a novel and making it a story would be easy. Okay, a lot crazy. Had the critique group over and they found several areas where my response was “In the orignal book, that is explained.” And they only read 20…

  • Side Project Strategy

    Time to kick-start my marketing efforts. Reading the New York Times this morning, I saw an article about how print publishers are pressing their writers, who usually pub a book a year, into producing short stories or novellas for the e-publishing market in between books. The New York marketing departments are slowly catching on to what indie writers already…

  • Solutions for Promo Shy People

    I did something today that I usually find extremely difficult. If you are an introvert like I am, and find it difficult to spotlight your own writing, this may help you. I sent a query to a trade magazine I used to work for, told them what I was up to, pitched a feature story, and…