Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: DWW

  • Marketing for Introverts & Other People

    Are you an introvert? Many writers are. I know I am. Therefore I’ve made a list of easy things shy writers can do to help sell their work. As I said in yesterday’s post, if  you publish, you need to market as well. So here’s what you can do to improve your visibility as a writer: 1. Join…

  • Being a Chair

    As in chairperson. I’m doing that for DWW‘s Spring Readings this year. I’ve never headed a committee before, so it’s a good experience. Nothing about it is really difficult or inscrutable–well, except sending press releases– but just like so many things, it takes time. Time is not something I have my hands full of lately. I am…

  • In a Good Way

    It’s only 9 a.m. and I’m already feeling really tired. Had a long meeting with DWW folks yesterday. Started at 2 and didn’t end until about 6. The meetings I have attended before were only about 2 hours. But I liked this one better, maybe because I am more familiar with everyone, so I felt…

  • After Glow

    I am so relaxed right now. The calming effects of the writer’s retreat I attended yesterday are still with me. We writers spent the warm, sunny day under a flower-covered pergola, looking out on gently rolling hills and fields of lavender. I think it was breathing that lavender all day that has made me feel so peaceful today.…

  • DWW

    Am happily busy reading for a review due soon but had to post amid all the holiday hoopla that I have been accepted into membership with DWW, the organization of Detroit writers that’s been around since 1900! Things unfolded like a perfect dream… First the phone call giving me the good news. Then the invitation…