Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
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Jun 24, 2012
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I came across three articles with advice that seemed to move in opposite directions, recently. Two were reprints on Facebook. The first was about the trend among college students to view education as a pragmatic means to an end: good paying jobs. The second article centered on the a
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Seven Reasons Why I don’t Read Writer’s Digest
Jun 21, 2012
A friend who reads my blog posts advised me recently that my scribblings would make a great memoir. She sent me an article from WritersDigest.com: “Seven Tips for Turning Your Blog into a Book.” Frankly, I haven’t read “Writers’ Digest” in years because, at the time, muc
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When Luck Happens
Jun 20, 2012
A caring friend recently sent me a website that offered tutorials on how to market my books. The first in the series was how to raise one’s ranking for Amazon book sales. All of the tutorials came with a price tag, naturally. I’ve seen this type of promotion too many times to si
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History, The Gravedigger’s Friend
Jun 20, 2012
There’s a new work out on Helen Keller, written by Rosie Sultan. It’s a fictional biography, “Helen in Love,” which speculates on the nature of real characters, Helen and Peter Fagan, the young man who served as her secretary for a time. Sultan admits nothing is known about
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Another Ethical Dilemma
Jun 19, 2012
April 10 of this year I wrote a blog post about the ethics of piggybacking my work on to the sites of other authors. Some would call it marketing. Others would call it opportunism. My virtual book tour has given me a new set of questions. Followers have begun to drop into my Tw
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An Ordinary Day That Surprises
Jun 18, 2012
I finished my work early yesterday and as it was a sunny afternoon, I walked to one of my neighborhood bookstores. The stroll was pleasant but long, so midway I stopped to rest on a stone bench near a curbing. A large, gray cat leapt up to join me and rubbed its fur against my arm,
Continue Reading →A Word About Book Bloggers
Jun 15, 2012
Like the number of ice cream flavors that exist, book bloggers write for any number of reasons. Obviously, they enjoy reading but many are writers and use their blogs to develop an audience. They differ, too, in ages, ranging from retirees to frenzied mothers or students diverting the
Continue Reading →A Stitch In Time
Jun 14, 2012
I thought, when I retired, I could throw away my alarm clock. But as I get older, time plays a larger and larger role in my life. When I was young, my birthday or Christmas seemed slow to come around. Now I’ve hardly blown out one set of candles on the cake when it’s time to blow
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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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