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Perchance To Dream # 16

January 19, 2023
by Caroline Miller
A formula for literary success, Are marketing experts worth the money?, book marketing, experts in marketing, Getting Lost to Find Home, Gothic Spring, Heart Land, how to find a reading audience?, J. K. Rawling, pluses and minuses of writing well, sources to learn about marketing, Whart are readers looking for?, What experts say about marketing
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The would-be author asked me how to publish her book.  I should have replied, do you know your market?  Instead, I gave her the name of someone who might help. Why point to the pitfalls ahead?  The woman had completed a book. She deserved kudos instead of advice. I wasn’t the one
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Not Goodbye

December 08, 2022
by Caroline Miller
caroline miller, change in blog publlishing dates, Getting Lost to Find Home, WriteAway blog
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I’ve been trying to forestall this announcement for a while but can delay it no longer.  Earlier this year I hinted that the demands of self-publishing and promoting my memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home next November might require me to publish these blogs less frequently for a whi
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We Are The Stuff Of Dreams

December 01, 2022
by Caroline Miller
advertising, anti-vaxxers, bot, brain as more than computer, classical physics, cyber crooks, entanglements, Getting Lost to Find Home, Morgan Meeker, objective reality, QAnon, quatum mechanics, social platforms, spinning isotopes, the human brain, true lies, Tucker Carlson, What is consciousness?
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I felt as if I’d dropped down Alice’s rabbit hole. The daughter of friends I’d known for years had one name, but I’d called her by another. I even invented a tag to remember it as we seldom meet: “M is for music.”  As it turns out, the girl’s name doesn’t start with
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The Three Graces Of The Queen

September 13, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Donald Trump, Faustian bargain, Getting Lost to Find Home, Judge Reed O'Connor, King Charles 111, Krystle Matthews, Lisa Fields, prejudice, Queen Elizabeth 11, racial heritage, Scott Jensen, settled law, study on happiness, Ted Cruz, the three graces, Vladimir Putin, William Bennis
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Getting Lost to Find Home, my upcoming memoir, will reveal my childhood relationship with my father was a rocky one.  We didn’t make our separate peace until I’d graduated from college.  Even then, communication wasn’t easy.  He was an Indiana farm boy with an 8th-grade educa
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Memoir: The Book Of Me

September 01, 2022
by Caroline Miller
"Eat Love Pray", biography, Elizabeth Gilbert, Getting Lost to Find Home, memoirs, Memoirs and Biographies differ, Memoirs sell better than biographies, truth and memoirs
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“Politician Won’t Seek Higher Office,” the headline screamed. The reference was to an interview where I’d said I wasn’t moving my office to a 17th-floor high rise along with my fellow county commissioners.  I hated elevators and worried about public access. The newspaper ba
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Perchance To Dream 11

August 11, 2022
by Caroline Miller
agent rejections, crumbling colonialism, cute dogs, East Africa in 1960s, Erin Donley, Erin Donley Communications, female protagonist, Getting Lost to Find Home, importance of a large platform, Kenya, Linus, marketing non-fiction, n, self-publishing options, WordPress algorithms, writing fiction
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A year ago, I threw in the towel.  By then my memoir had received more than 100 agent rejections.  Presuming the fault was mine, I decided to rewrite the manuscript. The editor I’d hired to critique the original draft had called that version “literature.” She and I were the on
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Here’s A Question For You

June 23, 2022
by Caroline Miller
challenge in writing a memoir, effect of pandemic on book sales, Getting Lost to Find Home, how to create a book audience, self-publish challenges, small press publishing, writing a memoir
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The woman sitting in the coffee shop opposite me had once been my English student.  She’s in her seventies now and I am halfway through my eighties.  From time to time, she assists me with some of my writing projects. Recently, she did a final edit of my memoir which I began in 20
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Bathtub Ecology

April 29, 2021
by Caroline Miller
effects of indoor plumbing on skin health, Getting Lost to Find Home, perils of frequent bathing, soap and the skin's natural barrier, soap as a skin irritant
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In my upcoming memoir, Getting Lost to Find Home, I describe a scene outside a Kenyan village where I was seated in a first-class train compartment opposite an Indian man. We were waiting for other passengers to board, time enough for me to take the measure of my traveling companion.
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