Tag: conferences

  • On Writing Groups & blog birthday

    This month cynthiaharrison.com is 23 years old. Here’s how it looked back when I still called it A Writer’s Diary. BTW, you can read my novel GYPSY free on Kindle. And thanks for reading. This years the blog has gone through some changes. For one thing I moved my website to another platform but kept…

  • On Writing Groups & blog birthday

    This month cynthiaharrison.com is 23 years old. Here’s how it looked back when I still called it A Writer’s Diary. BTW, you can read my novel GYPSY free on Kindle. And thanks for reading. This years the blog has gone through some changes. For one thing I moved my website to another platform but kept…

  • Confessions of a Conference Junkie

    I remember reading an essay by Anne Lamott in Salon years ago saying she felt horrible being paid to attend writing conferences where agents and editors and speakers all promised what she feels cannot be delivered: a book contract. My reaction to that, as a conference junkie from way back, was at first shock, then horror, then acceptance.…