Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
July 28, 2010
Jul 28, 2010
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THE BAROMETER OF BOOKS On Saturday, I did the unthinkable. I turned down the armload of books a friend offered me when we met for coffee. She’s a reviewer for a small newspaper so she receives a steady stream of new arrivals. I know how quickly new releases can accumulate when a per
Continue Reading →July 26, 2010
Jul 26, 2010
AS FORD WENT SO GOES THE PRINT NEWSPAPER? A lot of debate is going on about the future of print newspapers. People aren’t reading them as much anymore and revenues are down. The electronic media is blamed because TV and online news are free. Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul, wants to
Continue Reading →July 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010
A SKULL AND CROSS BONES DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN POISON I added a new link to my section on Writers Resources recently; or rather Mark did at my request (Mark is the brains behind the layout of this blog). The link I added belongs to a writer named Jack King. His page is called “Spy Wr
Continue Reading →July 22, 2010
Jul 22, 2010
SELLING PIECES OF MYSELF On Monday, I went to a bookstore that buys and sells used books. I wanted credit to apply toward a new purchase. It’s a simple commercial transaction but every time I do it I leave feeling uneasy. Some of the clerks behind the counter behave as though they a
Continue Reading →July 21, 2010
Jul 21, 2010
THANK YOU MRS. ROOSEVELT Here’s a story every writer will marvel at and probably everyone else. It’s about a woman called Laura Munson and her struggle to become a published author. During the first twenty years of her career, she produced fourteen books and all of them were rejec
Continue Reading →July 20, 2010
Jul 20, 2010
ONE GRAIN OF SAND AT A TIME I decided to buy a new book last week. I can afford the luxury because I don’t spend much on clothes, my mortgage is paid, I own my car and I’ve done most of the major repairs on the my 113 year old house – I hope. I won’t give away the title of the
Continue Reading →June 19, 2010
Jul 19, 2010
HOLDEN CAULFIELD ALL OVER AGAIN I’m sure being a lighthouse keeper ranks right up there with being a shepherd on the list of the world’s loneliest jobs, but writing is probably in the top ten. Even when a writer is in a crowd, a part of his brain functions as an observer. After al
Continue Reading →June 16, 2010
Jul 16, 2010
THOUGHTS ON AN ORDINARY LIFE Tuesday was one of those days when I felt I accomplished little. I’d risen early to squeeze in three hours of uninterrupted writing before my haircut appointment; but we all know what happens to best laid plans. A visitor dropped by to see how I was doin
Continue Reading →July 15, 2010
Jul 15, 2010
THE ART OF SURVEYS I almost threw the envelope in the recycle bin as junk mail when my eyes fell across the return address: Arbitron Ratings Media Study. I recognized the name as the company that rates TV and radio programs based on audience surveys. I presumed one of those surveys wa
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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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