Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

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  • More Reasons

    Here’s another installment of some possible reasons for writer’s block.  6. Bad Habits (Awareness) Zoning out with hours upon hours of television, eating junk food, ingesting intoxicants, excessive sleep, obsessive shopping, staying on the phone for hours solving other people’s problems, or partying every night into the wee hours, even one of these behaviors will…

  • Book Glutton

    It’s been a book a day for a while now, and sometimes I’ll get two or more going at once in a manic phase of reading. It’s a non-fiction kind of week. First, I started the rather dry Shakespeare’s Wife by Germaine Greer. Yesterday I put down Greer’s meticulous tracing of the family tree to zoom thorugh Carol…

  • Mrs. Southworth

    100 years ago, Emma Southworth was the most popular author in the U.S. She wrote more than 50 novels in the second half of the 19th century, and made quite a good living doing it. She also taught school, until writing paid enough for a comfortable life for herself and her two children. Her husband had long ago…

  • Embracing the Mystery

    In writing and life, I like to have goals, plans, a clear direction. And yet…I have little idea where I am going or what I am doing in my writing life these days. I’ve taken a few actions that seemed important at the time, but now, back from a long vacation, I’m confused as to my next…

  • Jennifer Cody Epstein

    After a successful career as a freelance journalist, the chance viewing of a painting by an unfamiliar artist drew Jennifer Cody Epstein into a new life as a novelist. In The Painter From Shanghai, Epstein vividly imagines the interior life of historical figure Pan Yuliang, who hones her painterly craft in the tumultuous first half…