Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Grasping the Extraordinary
Jan 29, 2013
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I had lunch recently with a woman with whom I’d previously corresponded but never met. She works for the alumnae publication of my college and has always been careful to print notices about each of my books. I decided the time had come to thank her by inviting her to lunch. I’m gl
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What Tennessee Williams Knew
Jan 28, 2013
As a blog writer with a few books behind me, I get numerous questions about how to find an agent or a publisher or how to promote books. As to the latter, I haven’t a clue. Why some writers get attention and others don’t is a mystery to me. But I do know queries about finding a pu
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Jan 26, 2013
Don Merrill did a radio interview on my new book and my thoughst on writing. It’s a half hour long. Know everyone is busy, I’m providing the link here for anyone who might be curious: http://kboo.fm/node/53328 I hope those of you who listen will enjoy it. &nb
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History’s Record Depends on Each of Us
Jan 25, 2013
Todd Purdum in February’s Vanity Fair catalogues the decline of the human condition. He notes, for example, that technology has made privacy obsolete. Gone, too, is the power of nation states, superseded by the multi-national elite — corporations and multibillionaires who play
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A Few Words About “Editorial Needs”
Jan 24, 2013
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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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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