Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Books Reviewed

  • Give Me Everything You Have

    For awhile now I’ve known I need to go back and finish out my teaching career if I want to receive my pension. I gave myself time to write all the books in my head, and I resolved to start teaching full time again for just the semester or two it will take to make…

  • Why We Write

    I’ve just read five stories from the new book Why We Write edited by Meredith Maran. Maran got 20 top selling authors to spill the beans on why they write and how their process works. It is always fun to read these types of books, because no matter how famous, no matter how rich, these…

  • Blog It! the author’s guide to building a successful online brand

    Molly Greene Ever wanted to start a blog? Already have one and can’t get excited about it? Molly Greene’s  power tool of a book is all you’ll ever need. Molly, an author I follow on Twitter, and have reviewed before, sent me an advance copy of Blog It! and I ate it up like brain candy. Which…

  • Terry Tyler

    Terry Tyler writes humor like she was born to it. If you like Marian Keyes and Sophie Kinsella, you will love Terry Tyler. Her smooth writing, biting wit, and ironic commentary on popular culture make this a page-turner I could not put down. The cast of characters revolves around a band named THOR dreamed up…

  • Woodswoman

    Picture a single young woman at her keyboard, writing for her life in a cozy cabin tucked deep inside the Adirondack mountains. Sounds like heaven. For Anne LaBastille, it was a reality. Not only did LaBastille live and write in her rustic cabin, she built it herself. Woodswoman tells this true story, spanning the first ten years of LaBastille’s life as a…