People sometimes ask if I’ve thought about publishing a selection of my blogs in book form.  Naturally, I’m flattered, just as I am when they suggest my novels would make great movies. Such notions don’t swell my head. Steven Spielberg, I know, won’t be calling soon. 

Virtue isn’t always a blessing, no matter what the devout might think.  Take humility, for example.  That got me into trouble last week. I wrote a blog, tongue-in-cheek, about an email from my web designer.  She was seeking information about the site.  As she’d provided the de

Recently, I received an email from the person who designed my web page.  “Caroline, is it possible for me to receive your blogs two or three times a week instead of one every day?” Can she?  I don’t know.  She created the site.  Never mind, I understood what she wanted.  �

I live two lives, one as a writer of books and the other as a blogger.  I love both.  The memoir I’ve been working on has been intensely satisfying.  But to complete the memoir, I’ve obliged my readers to live on blog re-runs.  I am thankful for their patience.  During the in

Today marks my 6th year as a blogger, writing 5 days a week (M-F) on the writing life and what other writers have to say about life.  Social commentary is the way I guess you’d categorize what I do,  for those who care about categories.  I don’t.  But I do care about my reader

Yesterday a friend called and by her hesitant manner, I knew she wanted a favor.  Eventually, she got to her point.  She wanted me to have coffee with her friend who was writing her first book and who wanted my advice on how to proceed.  I agreed to meet this friend, of course.  A

I went to hear a marketing/public relations expert make a pitch to writers the other night. My friend Susan Stoner, whose new book, Dry Rot, received a glowing review in our local newspaper, came with me. Both of us hoped to pick up a pointer or two on how to promote our works. The wo