Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Marketing

  • Finding Reviewers

    On July 18, my novel The Paris Notebook, will be published by The Wild Rose Press. Their marketing people send review copies out to many review sites. But what about indie novelists? Who sends out review copies for us? We do. Yet one more business-oriented task when what we really want to do is write. One…

  • Writing Vacation

    Of course this could only happen to me. I go on vacation with my husband and just a few days in my publisher sends an email saying I have three days to check over the final copy of my novel (The Paris Notebook)  before it goes into production. I have a 3G phone so it works in my…

  • My Own Little Heaven

    Terri Giuliano Long has been doing a fun thing this week on her blog. In celebration of love, she’s asked guest bloggers to post on various forms of love. She asked me! It was an honor. In my woefully inadequate marketing research, I think they call this something. Cross promotion? Maybe. Anyway, I chose to write…

  • Marketing the Mike Wells Way

    I’ve written here before about Mike Wells. This guy not only writes great books, he effortlessly markets them in a way that reminds me of the Victorian era when Charles Dickens owned a magazine and put out a chapter at a time of his latest book. Readers couldn’t wait for the next chapter. All novels were originally…

  • Meaningful Marketing

    The best marketing tool I used for my writing manual was to give it away free on Kindle for a week. It is still in the top ten of one list (adult education) and #100 in “writing skills” and “creativity” is #48. So not only does the give away help, but tags do, too. I used…