According to my birth sign, I’m an organized individual. In my personal life, that’s true. I keep files with the names and phone numbers of friends long since dead, and my business calendars go as far back as the 80s. I’m not a pack rat. But I live in a museum of paper records,

Yesterday I wrote a check for $25 to one of those electronic services that promises to distribute information about my book, Trompe l’Oeil to 500 bloggers and various social media sites. To be honest, as a form of advertisement, I suspect I might just as well have written the title

A local newspaper recently wrote the following about my new novel, Trompe l’Oeil: Suspense builds as the reader tries to decipher what is real and what is illusion. Ms. Miller’s knowledge of literature and poetry is cleverly interjected into the story giving the book traces of mor

I am still inching my way through Jim Holt’s, Why does the World Exist?  I’ll probably finish it in the same time frame it took to build a pyramid. The book is so rich in thought that it’s like wading through a vat of molasses. The concepts it teaches are stranger than any foun

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

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

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

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

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 .

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