Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Reading As Revolution
Aug 13, 2013
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“Are we approaching a literary Singularity, when every human being on earth will, in fact, have written the book they have in them?” So begins Mark Kingwell, a Canadian professor of philosophy in his essay, “Beyond The Book” printed in the August issue of Harpers. (pgs. 15-19)
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More Than A Penny For Your Thoughts
Aug 12, 2013
Now that Edward Snowden has given us an inkling of how far our government will go to invade our privacy , we are also learning that the oversight of that surveillance seems little more than a rubber stamp. Records reveal that members of the FISA* court, which grants the government the
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An Approaching Nuclear Disaster
Aug 09, 2013
While the media continues to entertain us with crime stories or pictures of England’s new prince, the United States is facing a growing nuclear crisis. Congress has delayed designating a storage facility for radioactive waste, and so power plants are keeping the spent rods in coolin
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Time Will Tell
Aug 07, 2013
Like Phillip Roth, Alice Munro, short story writer and winner of many literary awards, has decided to retire her pen at the age of 82. She’s not doing it because she’s run out of ideas, even though she’s been scribbling for 40 years. She’s retiring because she wants to leave t
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The Fickle Finger Of Fate
Aug 06, 2013
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book saga, has been unmasked as the author of a new detective mystery, The Cuckoo’s Calling. She wrote it under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, hoping to escape inevitable comparisons between her youth series and her adult fiction. Her first
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Old Age And A Little Intercourse With The World
Aug 05, 2013
One of my blog readers sent me an article from the New York Times, recently. Oliver Sacks wrote it. He’s a neurologist and bestselling author of notable books like Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. He was ruminating on his upcoming 80th birthday. I’ve written
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What The Marketing Expert Doesn’t Know And Can’t Tell US
Aug 02, 2013
I went to hear a marketing/public relations expert make a pitch to writers the other night. My friend Susan Stoner, whose new book, Dry Rot, received a glowing review in our local newspaper, came with me. Both of us hoped to pick up a pointer or two on how to promote our works. The wo
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To Kill A Trust
Aug 01, 2013
When Lee Harper was asked if the reason why she never wrote a novel after To Kill a Mockingbird was because she didn’t want to compete with herself, the author replied, “Not just no, but hell no.” (“To Steal a Mockingbird,” by Mark Seal, Vanity Fair, August, 2013, pg.112) Sh
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The Artistry Of Blind Luck
Jul 31, 2013
“…in the dark recesses of my soul I will always be a high school dropout.” So writes Bruce McCall, cartoonist for the New Yorker in his essay about the failure that has haunted him all his life. (“Confessions of a High School Dropout,” by Bruce McCall, Town&Country, 8/13
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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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