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Carole Mackin
Carole Mackin
Helena, Montana
Member since: May, 2009
Last login: 03/12/2010
Last update : 03/12/2010
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About Me

  • My life is defined by a river.  I grew up at the mouth of the Missouri River.  As a young child, I believed that the river flowed in the wrong direction.  An absurd idea -- until I realized that I was not at the source of the river where I belonged.  Now I live in the Montana headwaters of the Missouri and the river flows just as it should.

CaroleMackin's Blog

  • Letter of Rejection

    March 12, 2010

    •   Rejection letters from a publisher can be curt and ego deflating.  But the only way to get published is to find the company that sees your work as profitable.  I took Red Room's advice and looked at my favorite books.  Who published them? CanonGate Books Limited had published Margaret Atwood and President Obama.  Well, I'd like to run in that crowd, so I found their submittal criteria and ...
  • The Plan Came Together

    January 7, 2010

    • January 7, 2010 No wind. Temperatures below zero. Cloudless sky. Predawn. These are the conditions needed to capture "little brother" on camera. I stood in wait and saw the first hint of the column of light on the Eastern horizon. I was shaking with excitment and cold. The first ten photos where blurred. I braced myself and started again. But now something new was happening. ...
  • Is the miraculous following us?

    December 24, 2009

    • I feel like the miraculous is following me. In the past, the breathtaking ice pillars have happened once every five years near Hauser Lake outside Helena Montana. But now it's happened twice in a month and there's another week left. Is it just luck that I’m at the precise spot to have the sunlight reflected into my camera? Maybe nature is providing a special Christmas delight for me and ...
  • Perilous Montana

    December 9, 2009

    • Out my dining room window are miles of pasture and rolling hills. Life is abundant. Horses, cattle, deer, coyote, fox, geese, gulls, ravens. A myriad of twittering birds and the rare elk. Beyond the rolling hills are the Elkhorn Mountains. Young and restless volcanoes able to toss molten lava twenty miles and hit my house. The soil is littered with finger-like black rocks and the ...
  • Done but not Finished

    October 26, 2009

    •   Today, my third book is in the computer.  The trilogy: Five Years Lying, Mandie Faradin, and Hope's Herald begins in 2007 and ends in 2025.  Since 2024, no one in North America heard the devastating diagnosis, "You have cancer."  A work of fiction it is, but it doesn't have to be.   Fiction is a slippery slope.  As I've talked with agents and publishers, they have asked me to ...

Reviews I've Written

  • Fiction in real life

    June 1, 2009
    I listened to the Kite Runner audiobook several years ago. For good or bad, it shaped my understanding of Afghanistan. It also haunts me.

Comments I've Written

  • The death experience

    I collapsed without warning,turned totally grey and sent everyone around me into a panic. My blood had stopped circulating eventhough I was breathing and my heart was pumping.
  • Quote

    Mary, "Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time." Edward FitzGerald in "Chronomoros" Carole
  • I voted.

    Yes. Anyone seeing the video will get the message.
  • Gardens of Water

    My husband just brought me a book called "Gardens of Water" by Alan Drew. He wrote this at the same time I was working on my manuscript.
  • Americans

    Dear Hombre, POV from the melting pot of American (where we all have genes from the original pious Pilgrims, the Indians and the African slaves) Americans have a curious notion of Happiness written

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