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Pulling The Plug

October 24, 2024
by Caroline Miller
avoiding publishing scams, Big 5 Publishing Houses, buying book reviews, diminishing number of readers, Getting Lost to Find Home, Grimahlka And Other Fantasies, pullling the plug on social media platforms, Rutherford Classics, self-publishing, Ta-Nahisi Coates, Write Away Blog
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A writer on my social media page announced he’d published his first book, recently.  Overjoyed, he included a favorable comment from a well-known book review company.   “I’m a genius,” he concluded tongue in cheek.  Like a first kiss, his elation was understandable.  Who
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Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish

January 25, 2024
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Bernie Sanders, Big publishing houses struggle with Amazon, book reviews on Amazon, community standards on Amazon, death of small bookstores, Fifty Shades of Grey, Getting Lost to Find Home, Karl Marlantes, oligarchs of power in publishing, Sage Adair mystery series, Susan Stoner
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Like the boy who cried wolf, U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has long blamed oligarchs for weakening our democracy. Of late, his prognostications ring true.  Vast fortunes concentrated in the hands of large corporations and a few individuals have weakened the middle class, leading the
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A Passage To America

January 18, 2024
by Caroline Miller
Aung San Suu Kyi, Cubans vs other Latins, cultural enclaves, democracy and social mobility, Ezra Pound, Getting Lost to Find Home, immigration, inclusiveness in the U. S., Inuit snow words, Inuits words for snow, Jabberwock., Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost's Mending Wall, shared prejudice
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In my mid-forties, one of my duties as the head of a local teachers union was to attend a national convention in Florida.   My mother, in her sixties at the time, and, always eager to travel, suggested we take this opportunity to make a cross-country motor trip together. Though diff
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Good Will Hunting

December 21, 2023
by Caroline Miller
book promoting, Getting Lost to Find Home, how to encourage book chatter
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I received an email last week from a woman who’d read my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home. I LOVED your book and am recommending it to my book club and my other book-reading friends. Thank you for writing your memoirs in the wonderful book Getting Lost to Find Home.  It is truly
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The Cost Of Money

December 07, 2023
by Caroline Miller
COP28, F. Scott Fitzgerald, friction among social classes, Getting Lost to Find Home, Gweneth Paltrow, Isiah Maagsino, Justice Louis Brandis, Kim Kardashian, NGOs, The class struggle, The Great Gatsby, The women of UmojaUaso, Why people give to charity
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The podcaster interviewing me about my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home sounded incensed. Why had I clung to my engagement plans for two years before admitting I was being jilted?  “Couldn’t you see it coming?” the man asked. His question wasn’t friendly, but it didn’t sto
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Ayes On The Prize

November 09, 2023
by Caroline Miller
blurred lines between the virtual and real world, book blog, books on the Viet Nam War, Getting Lost to Find Home, Just Read It book show, Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn novel, novel Deep River, silversolara, the dubious practice of entry fees, Victoria Strauss, writing contests
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On an upcoming edition of my book talk show, Just Readi It, author Karl Marlantes reveals the struggle he faced to publish the first of his two best-selling novels, Matterhorn.  A young man newly returned from the Vietnam War, he was determined to recapture his experience as a soldie
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Getting Lost To Find Home

October 05, 2023
by Caroline Miller
Getting Lost to Find Home, High praise for "Getting Lost to Find Home", Oregon Arts Watch, the risk when writing goes publicoes, waiting for the critical verdict, writing as a form of birth, writing memoir
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Writing a book is a form of producing life. Like the biological procedure, dealing with afterbirth is tricky.  Exposing the fruits of one’s labor to critical appraisal is heart-pounding stuff.  The creator adores the offspring, but the eyes of strangers, like a camera, take an obj
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While I Was Sleeping

August 24, 2023
by Caroline Miller
Artificial Intelligence in writing, Downtowner-Portland-Oregon, Getting Lost to Find Home, lost blogs restored, Maggie White, memoir, the importance of blog readers, Writer Beware, writing a blog
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A recent article on scams in Writer Beware has prompted me to write the following disclaimer. None of my blogs are written with assistance from Artificial Intelligence (AI). Google helps me with research and an editing program checks my content for technical errors. Everything else is
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Everyone Has A Story To Tell

August 03, 2023
by Caroline Miller
East Africa, Getting Lost to Find Home, types of memoirs, what to avoid in memoir writing, Women Writers/Woment's Books, writing memoirs
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My essay below first appeared in the ebook magazine Women Writers, Women’s Books on July 27, 2020.  This is a reprint of that article.   EVERYONE HAS A STORY TO TELL “Everyone has a story to tell,” said the woman seated opposite me at my retirement center. Somewhere in her 80s
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Happy Fourth of July Week

July 06, 2023
by Caroline Miller
Barbara Box, Fourth of July, Getting Lost to Find Home, Women Writers, Women's Books
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