Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
December 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011
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WHEN BAD PASSES FOR GOOD Currently, I’m plowing through a gossipy book entitled “F.I.A.S.C.O.” by Frank Partnoy. It provides lurid tales about how brokers market their wares, particularly the bad stocks. Inventing palatable names for high risk investments is key. The term emergi
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Dec 11, 2011
A WEALTH OF WORDS I am thoroughly disillusioned with my paperback version of the “Oxford American Dictionary.” The words I need defined are almost never listed. I have a large “Oxford English Dictionary,” but it’s too heavy to lug around. I need a paperback filled with words
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Dec 09, 2011
CAN NUNS BE WRONG? Shakespeare’s “Richard III” is one of my favorite plays. It offers a graphic depiction of a man riddled with envy. The same is true for another of the writer’s characters, Iago, who plots to bring down Othello rather than serve him. Like most of literature
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Dec 08, 2011
POTTS AND POTTS OF GOODIES Years ago a naturopath advised me to eat fewer wheat products and with the intention of following her advice, I purchased a cookbook entitled “Going Against the Grain” by Phyllis Potts, a writer whom I believe resides in Oregon. For a time I used the whe
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Dec 07, 2011
PROFESSIONAL ENVY A few years ago I picked up a used paperback for a dollar. The book was “The Drowning People” and was written by Richard Mason. It was a gothic tale by this young Englishman who had yet to graduate from university. I remember the pang of envy that ran thr
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Dec 06, 2011
BANSHEES AND SELKIES AND LEPRECHAUNS, OH MY! Barbara G. Walker is a woman who has written several interesting books on myth, culture and women’s history. Her definitive work, “The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects” is a classic. Two other works, “T
Continue Reading →HEART LAND ANNOUNCEMENT – We go Kindle
Dec 05, 2011
Heart Land, a coming of age story set in rural American in 1939 has been in publication for about a year and a half. I’m happy to announce that the British Publisher has decided sales have been good enough to warrant putting the book on Kindle. It should be up for electroni
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Dec 05, 2011
A JOURNEY – FROM THE REFRIGERATOR TO THE LIBRARY One of the great frustrations in my life is that too many books are being published that I’d like to read but don’t have the time. My refrigerator door is dotted with lists of titles I intend to buy, so many of them that they blot
Continue Reading →a small announcement
Dec 02, 2011
Just wanted folks to know that my first novel, Heart Land has sold well enough for the British publisher to decided to put it on kindle. Heart Land will be avaiable as an electronic book in a few days. Some of you have been kind enough to write to tell me how much you enjoyed 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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