Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Category: Books Reviewed
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Food & Worry
This charming narrative about the road to self-realization (and maybe even true love) stars smart, funny, and unemployed Moira Shapiro. Moira grew up as the daughter of restaurant owners in the privileged world of Washington D.C. Her intelligence got her into a top college but her increasingly disabling OCD has left her unemployed. When Moira…
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How to be an Overnight Success
First you have to work for 20 years and write 14 novels that get rejected. You have to also write magazine pieces and face rejection, but sometimes, an editor will choose your piece and you’ll have a paycheck and a clip for your next pitch. Then another, and so on. This takes a long time,…
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78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published
Read Pat Walsh’s entertaining writing book this week and would recommend it to anyone serious about wanting to be published. The second part of the long title is “and 14 Reasons Why it Just Might” so it’s not as depressing as it sounds. I agreed with almost everything Walsh said (#3: “You do not revise your book or will not…
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Story Sisters
How in the world did I manage to leave off my most anticipated summer read, by Alice Hoffman, one of my all-time favorite writers, from my one-line reviews post? Could be because I’m still processing my complicated reaction to Story Sisters. My usual feeling after completing a new Alice Hoffman novel is rapture, pure and simple. This time it was…