Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Murder for $1.00
Jan 17, 2013
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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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What the Heart Knows It Soon Forgets
Jan 11, 2013
Each Christmas eve I join a couple for lunch to celebrate our long friendship and to enjoy good conversation. On this occasion, the wife sighed, over her plate of macaroni and cheese, and said she was appalled that so many people believe the world is going to-hell-in- a-hand -basket .
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Grave Robbing for Profit
Jan 10, 2013
I need someone to explain the concept behind fictionalized biography to me. I understand what a biography is and an autobiography. I even I understand the concept of fiction pretty well. What I don’t understand – outside of tabloids which are largely fiction — is the combina
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Not Yet Ready for Shady Pines
Jan 09, 2013
Not long ago, I had coffee with a former student — a darling, talented woman of late middle age whom I am delighted to have in my life. In a way, we’ve watched each other grow and so there’s a comfortable history between us. Nonetheless, I was taken aback when I told her I w
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Psychopaths, Too Successful for Their Own Good
Jan 08, 2013
I wrote a blog a while ago that said psychopaths are so prevalent in society some psychiatrist were suggesting the behavior no longer be listed as a mental illness. What’s more, a recent survey of the disorder revealed that those afflicted with the impairment turned out to have some
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The End of Your Life Book Club
Jan 07, 2013
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, just out, is about the last months the author spent with his mother as she was dying of pancreatic cancer. Mary Anne, the mother, had compiled a list of books she wanted to read before she died, and the pair spent their precious time to
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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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