Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: Kindle
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Solving a Marketing Mystery
Blue Lake Christmas Mystery is on sale this month! 99 cents on Kindle started yesterday, Nook and iPhone also 99 cents starting today. I don’t know about other writers, but I’ve never earned a penny from Nook or from iPhone. My publisher makes my books available on all the eBook sites; it’s a mystery why…
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When I’m 64
All of my adult life, I have been collecting my favorite books and authors, promising myself I’d read them all again when I retired. Some day in the distant future. When I was old. BTW, I don’t give the word “old” a negative connotation. It’s a place the lucky ones will all arrive at one…
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Goodreads Holiday Giveaway & More
I love reading Christmas novels so much I wrote one of my own last year. This year, beginning November 8, for a limited time, I’ll be giving away 10 signed print copies of my 2016 novella Blue Lake Christmas Mystery on Goodreads. If you love reading on your Kindle like I do, Amazon has Blue Lake Christmas Mystery…
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The Long Road to Print
My first published novel, Sister Issues, is finally in print. It only took a dozen or so years after I wrote it for this to happen. What took so long? Paradoxically, my impatience to be published is what held this book back from seeing print for so long. Readers of this blog know that I’m…
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How I Got to #1 on Kindle
I’ve recently had the experience of five “free” days on Kindle. What this means is my publisher allows Amazon exclusive rights to my novel for three months, and in those months, I agree to give my book away for free for five days. It’s a marketing thing. I am not good at marketing. Also, I’m…