Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
A Few Words About “Editorial Needs”
Jan 24, 2013
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Recently, I received a rejection for a story I’d submitted to a literary magazine. It came with the standard explanation: the material does not meet our editorial needs. Okay, I can accept rejection. A writer must. But I won’t accept the request that came with it: that I purchase
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Housekeeping for Writers or Anyone Else
Jan 23, 2013
According to my birth sign, I’m an organized individual. In my personal life, that’s true. I keep files with the names and phone numbers of friends long since dead, and my business calendars go as far back as the 80s. I’m not a pack rat. But I live in a museum of paper records,
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Cracking the Code of Book Sales
Jan 22, 2013
Yesterday I wrote a check for $25 to one of those electronic services that promises to distribute information about my book, Trompe l’Oeil to 500 bloggers and various social media sites. To be honest, as a form of advertisement, I suspect I might just as well have written the title
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How Does A Writer Build An Audience?
Jan 21, 2013
A local newspaper recently wrote the following about my new novel, Trompe l’Oeil: Suspense builds as the reader tries to decipher what is real and what is illusion. Ms. Miller’s knowledge of literature and poetry is cleverly interjected into the story giving the book traces of mor
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A Unified Theory of Science and Art
Jan 18, 2013
I am still inching my way through Jim Holt’s, Why does the World Exist? I’ll probably finish it in the same time frame it took to build a pyramid. The book is so rich in thought that it’s like wading through a vat of molasses. The concepts it teaches are stranger than any foun
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Murder for $1.00
Jan 17, 2013
I picked up another book for a $1.00 at my local bookstore a few days ago. The author was new to me, Anna Porter, but the plot sounded interesting. It’s about a murder that takes place during an International book fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Book fairs are places where editors and p
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I Do Not Write for Random House
Jan 16, 2013
One of Emily Dickinson’s well loved poems begins, I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. These lines came to me recently when I was being interviewed for my newly released novel, Trompe l’Oeil. One que
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Meditation on Fiction as Truth
Jan 15, 2013
On his show recently, Bill Moyer asked an author why he chose to write fiction instead of non-fiction. The author replied he felt he could uncover truth better with fiction. Of course, I agree and have written on this subject before. When a writer is looking for truth in the everyday
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Confession of a Liar
Jan 14, 2013
Do I tell lies? Yes. Ask me if that dress you’re wearing makes you look fat or if I think you have the voice of an opera star and I will always be encouraging. I’m the same when friends ask me to review their books on Amazon. Sometimes I tell the truth. Sometimes I don’t. That
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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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