Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Where The Public Rules
Aug 27, 2014
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While I cling to my hope of finding a big agent for my 4th novel, I know the trend is against me. Self-publishing is becoming so acceptable, that big publishers are getting into the business. Even the New York Times Bestseller list includes self-published authors, something that w
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The Hash Isn’t For Eating
Aug 26, 2014
I sat down to lunch with a former student recently. He’s now a tenured English professor at a major university, so we fell into a discussion about how digital communication is transforming our language. After we’d finished our quiches and said our goodbyes, I came home com
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Rich Man, Poor Man
Aug 22, 2014
One of my favorite pastimes when I was a teenager was to cruise Sunset Boulevard, starting from the beach at Santa Monica, California and following the winding road all the way to where it ended at the Los Angeles railway station. The scenery along the route was varied. The low be
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Vampires Are Alive And Well
Aug 21, 2014
I’ve just finished an article in Harper’s about life coaches. Though largely unschooled and uncredentialed, these people make a living as cheerleaders for those who can afford to pay. Their role is to tell strangers how to live their lives. Nice work if you can get it. (“50,
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Anatomy Of A Play – Part V
Aug 20, 2014
I knew the director I was about to meet hadn’t been born when I first sat down to write my play. Young enough to be my granddaughter, the giddy days of the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment was a footnote in her history book. That baby boomers were once flower children mig
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War And Peace
Aug 19, 2014
Not long ago, one of my Facebook friends threw up his hands, disgusted with the level of violence in the world. “It’s time for the people to do something if our leaders can’t,” he declared. Intrigued, I wrote back to ask what he had in mind, and like most of us who are
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The Disconnect
Aug 15, 2014
I shocked a few friends when I announced that I’d sold my home and would be moving into a retirement center. They weren’t surprised because they thought I was too young. My grey hair and sagging jowls say otherwise. So why the eyebrows lifted to form a question? I suspect
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Two Critics — One Right, One Wrong
Aug 14, 2014
A few days after I published my blog, The Intentional Fallacy, (blog 8/8/14), a friend sent me a page from the Sunday edition of the New York Times Book Review. (July 29, pg. 31.) It contained two articles, one by Thomas Mallon and the other by Adam Kirsch, each taking different vie
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Forget The Mud Wrestling
Aug 13, 2014
Oh, that a reasonable woman can think so wrongly! Rebecca Traister pens a opinion piece for The New Republic that criticizes prominent women in the Democratic Party for failing to challenge Hillary Clinton’s potential bid for President of the United State. Elizabeth Warren and Kri
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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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