Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Category: writing
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By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…
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Writing on Vacation
We have been together for forty years. We’ve got vacations figured out. Um. But like writing, vacations can inspire revision. Over and over as times change, as we change. For example, road trips. We have been doing them our entire married life. Camping with the boys when they were small all the way to here…
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Wednesday is Release Day!
It has been a while since I released a book, and in that time so much has changed. I actually forgot to prepare. Totally focused on my weekend appearance at a big festival, I forgot the actual date, and only remembered it was before the big event. Then my mom got very ill very quickly…
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Diana Does It Again
Diana, my cover artist, is an…artist! I would have never thought to reflect the sky in the water. She brightened up what I thought might be a too dark image after my fun beach cover from Jane 1. Jane 2 is more edgy than cozy. Although there’s also some wonderful romance. And while the murder…
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Going Indie?
One blog I have read for years and years is Argh Ink. Jennifer Crusie taught me how to write a novel, and I’ve never forgotten her, since that first intensive workshop in Yellow Springs to the writing manual she wrote as a blog with Bob Mayer. She has not published a novel for awhile. But…