Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Finding Your Way Around The Short Story Market
Oct 10, 2017
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Picking up on yesterday’s comments about where to publish a short story — in a periodical or an anthology – let me take a step back. Writers should recognize they are living in a time of significant change in short-story publishing. Fewer high-circulation magazines publish
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Vanity Anthologies
Oct 09, 2017
I received a credit of 7 cents in royalties this quarter for my story, Agent of God, published in an anthology by Wolfsinger publishing. (Click). The company bought my piece outright, so I didn’t expect much of a royalty, especially as profits are shared with 30 other writers
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Tiffany, Where Beauty And Utility Collide
Oct 06, 2017
I learned to love the glow of silver from an older friend who was a collector. She hated polishing all the candlesticks and tea pots and fish knifes, however, so she’d roll them up in plastic wrap to keep the air from tarnishing the surfaces. Usually it worked. But when a cele
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Fake Art
Oct 05, 2017
As I’ve written before, gatekeepers, those whose reputations outweigh other standards of measurement, are the people who decide what is great art and what isn’t. Of course, those experts change with each succeeding generation and so, the value of art is ephemeral, something th
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When Analog And Digital Worlds Collide
Oct 04, 2017
I admit it, I’m an analog girl in a digital world. Hiring a cab the other day, the company asked if I planned to pay with cash or plastic? I have no idea why my method of payment matters. Maybe the company sends old cars for people who still use cash. The driver who picke
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Notes From An Analog Girl In A Digital World
Oct 03, 2017
By now we’ve all heard about various security breaches that occurred during the presidential election and others at large companies like Equifax. As a result, security companies are busy milking our insecurities with offers to make our private information safe. Regrettably, thes
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These Huddled Masses
Oct 02, 2017
Daily, Donald Trump, the Tweeterer- in-chief exposes himself as a twit and commentators are loving it. I can’t keep up with the jokes memorializing this humorless man. Here’s a sample from the October issue of Vanity Fair. “Trump has made Russia Great again; Trump is a che
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Evangelicals — A Dying Gasp
Sep 27, 2017
When I was a youngster, one of my scariest memories was a scene from Snow White. The huntsman’s shadow falling over the princess with a dagger was not it. Nor was it the scene where the queen tempts her stepdaughter with a poisoned apple. What made me shiver was the old woma
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Everyone Has A Story To Tell
Sep 26, 2017
No long after I moved into my retirement center, I found myself visiting a new friend in the assisted living section. As he and I talked, a woman joined us. I judged her to be in her 90s, though she had the svelte body of a dancer and a pretty face. I asked if she’d ever bee
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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