Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Books Reviewed

  • Riversong

     Riversong by #1 Nook author Tess Thompson plucked a chord deep in my fiction loving soul. When tragedy struck her family, young Lee Tucker was left alone to care for herself and her alcoholic mother in rural Oregon. Lee, with the help of an elderly neighbor who believed in her talent and intelligence, pulled herself up from those tangled roots…

  • A Cautionary Twitter Tale

    My honeymoon with Twitter is over . Before yesterday I followed interesting people and even acquired a following. I had fun chats with all sorts of writers. I saw the Twitter field in two camps, those who endlessly promoted their latest titles and asked me to visit their website and like their FB fan page, with no interest…

  • The Arrivals

    I read the best novel this weekend. A debut novel and the author looks so young!  No writing of my own this holiday weekend, except for a few notes on the WIP. No mornings to myself. No barbecue to prepare for, no people coming over. It has been quiet. But lovely in its own way, even the break…

  • Two Books, Bad and Beautiful

    Chipping away at the current WIP. Down from what was 80K to 70K. At this point, word count does not matter. Nothing matters except telling the best story I can. I know the difference. This week I read a horrible uncompelling novel by a best-selling author and a fabulous story by another best-selling writer. The first book will…

  • The Making of a Writer

    Gail Godwin’s second volume of published journals are writer gold. She talks about craft in unusual and interesting ways. Plus she was at the Iowa Writers Workshop at this time (60s) and worked with Vonnegut and Coover and all of her peers were writers in fierce competition for publication. She powers through rejection and distractions, like…