Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Special Announcement — CBS Radio interview – August 15, 12 p.m. EST.
Aug 10, 2012
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Want to announce that I will be interviewed by Donna Briggs, Wednesday, August 15 at noon on the CBS radio program Life Talk. If you can tune into this national broadcast, please do. And keep your fingers crossed for me, okay?
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In Search of a Perfect Sundae
Aug 10, 2012
Last weekend, I sat reading an excerpt from Eloisa James’ new book, Paris in Love. She was writing about the year she, her husband and two children spent in France. The story was full of the delights and horrors of living abroad and being required to live outside one’s comfort zon
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The Dark Side of Good Intentions
Aug 09, 2012
I received a phone call last night from a charity organization I have supported for years. Donations were down and the nonprofit was confronted by a special need. Could I make an additional contribution? It was the third call of this kind I’d received from similar organizations in a
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A Lesson from the Grim Reaper
Aug 08, 2012
Almost everyone knows Hamlet’s soliloquy on death, “To Be or Not to Be,” with its sinister doubts about the hereafter. But, if research is to be believed, those who have encountered the Grim Reaper and survived seem to benefit from the experience. I can testify to this fact. Yea
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A Lesson About Why
Aug 07, 2012
A couple of months ago I unearthed a play I’d written in the 1980s. It had been a semi-finalist in a local theater contest and enjoyed a couple of staged readings. I’ve worked on it, off and on, for a number of years. Finally, I decided to get a professional critique. When the wor
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Reader’s Handbook: how to be kind to a writer without spending money
Aug 06, 2012
A couple of months ago one of my Facebook friends who is a writer confessed she’d received only $10 in royalties from books sales in the last quarter. She wondered how she could increase her numbers. If I had an answer to that question, I’d share it. All I could do was offer to bu
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To Do or Not to Do, That is the Question
Aug 03, 2012
Yesterday I gave advice about where a beginning author should spend money to promote his book. Today I’m going to do the opposite: make recommendations on where NOT to put your money and then make a few positive suggestions. Here’s the list of what not to do: 1. Book tours: unless
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Three Characters that Move a Plot
Aug 02, 2012
After 4 years of struggling as an author, I’m spending the next two days writing a short primer for beginning writers. Most of us who write won’t make money from our work, but there are plenty of “experts” who will attempt to make money from our aspirations. They’ll be happy
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Truth, Space and Haruki Murakami
Aug 01, 2012
I went to the snooty secondhand bookstore today with four books to sell. The clerk took one of them and returned the rest. Still, I got $2.30 which brings the total on my credit to $18.00. I’m closer to affording Haruki Murakami’s latest book, 1Q84, which sells for $30. After the
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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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