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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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The Art Of The Fake

September 10, 2019
by Caroline Miller
1984, Amazon books, copyright, Hamlet, Heart Land, Moby Dick, plagiarism, self-publishing, The Bible, The Ninth Hour
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It’s uncivil of me, I suppose, to pick another quarrel with Amazon. After all, for the past week, the company has been running ads for my book, Heart Land, without a request or payment from me. In fact, that they’re running the ad in tandem The Ninth Hour is flattering.  Of cours
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Don’t Eat The Gingerbread

August 29, 2019
by Caroline Miller
Amazon, free book translation from Amazon, Hansel and Gretel, Heart Land, Jeff Bezos, Jon Emont, the fine print in Amazon's contracts, The Gingerbread Witch
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Who doesn’t like a good fairytale? Few. I suppose that’s why when Jeff Bezos sent me an email announcing my four novels could be translated into foreign languages for free, a smile crept across my face. Long years have taught me it’s best to keep my hands in my pocket whenev
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There Is No Them And Us

January 14, 2019
by Caroline Miller
Donald Trump, Heart Land, James Wolcott, Jason McDaniel, Middle America, racism among Trump supporters, Sean McElee, the dust bowl era, universal health care, Woebegone
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With the Democrats in control of the U. S. House, President Donald Trump seems to be reviving his base with fiery rhetoric.  We all know who members of that base are — Woebegone innocents of earlier days, a time when, if corn prices flourished, so did the nation. As a kid, my f
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Barnes and Nobel Sale So Easy

December 10, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Amazon books, Ballet Noir, Banres and Noble sale, book sale made easy, Gothic Spring, Heart Land, Michelle Obama, New York Times best seller list, Rutherford Classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, Trompe l'Oeil
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“You made it so easy.”  The woman on the other end of the phone laughed.  She was referring to an email I’d sent to friends about Barnes And Noble’s holiday 20% discount  on my books. I sent the message more for vanity than for sales.   I was tickled to see my novel, Hear
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A Summer Read

November 07, 2018
by Caroline Miller
All Creatures Great and Small, American humor, caroline miller, Fannie Farmer, Heart Land, James Herriot, portrait of rural American in 1939, The Depression
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Heart Land is a fictional memoir of a bright and reckless boy growing up in rural Ohio in 1939, at the close of the Depression and before America’s entrance into World War II.  Ockley Green is a sleepy farming community where a kid with an active imagination is as likely to trick h
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Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

November 10, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Ballet Noir, caroline miller, Gothic Spring, Heart Land, Trompe l'Oeil
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The time has come to begin the third rewrite of my memoir. The manuscript has laid fallow for a month, so I will look at it with fresh eyes, correcting imperfections and doing my best to serve my readers. When it reaches print, it will be the best effort I can make at this stage of my
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Rutherford Classics: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

August 11, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Gothic Spring, Heart Land, Rutherford Classics, Trompe l'Oeil
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In the writers’ pecking order, the author with a publisher stands taller than the one who is self-published.  Having a publisher implies someone other than the writer believes in the work enough to commit hard cash to producing it. Nonetheless, after working with 4 publishers, I’
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The Virtue of Dog-Eared Books

December 02, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Ballet Noir, book buying during the holidays, Gothic Spring, Heart Land, the joy of well-worn books, Trompe l'Oeil, where book junkies and writers converge
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This is embarrassing.  I went to a book sale the other day and sold all my novels, including my personal copy of Gothic Spring.  I sold it  by mistake.  The book is valuable to me because  I use it when I do readings. The pages are  dog-eared and marked with comments I wish to m
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Eyes On The Prize

December 17, 2015
by Caroline Miller
Amy Wallace, Arthur Gibson, Dan Berne, debate over the science fiction genre, Heart Land, Hugo Award, Isaac Asimov, Sage Adair mystery series, Susan Stoner, The God's of Second Chances, Ursula k. LeGuin, War of the Words, World Science Fiction Convention
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I opened an email the other day from my publisher.  Their note said they’d submitted my novel, Heart Land, for some book award.  If they’d had asked me, I’d have told them not to bother.  I don’t have much faith in awards.  Wherever people gather, politics is likely to fol
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