About Marla Miller
About Marla Miller, Founder, Marketing The Muse .com
Marla Miller writes for many websites. Her favorites include MORE.com and The WriterMag.com. As she traverses down her own road to continued publication, Miller appreciates just how hard it is to not only write well but well enough to get published. It’s tough out there. More than ever, writers need each other. In these changing times in publishing, It does take a whole village.
Marla Miller’s first book, All American Girls: The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team was published by Simon & Schuster. She was editor-in-chief of a quarterly lifestyle magazine, that is, until she sued the publisher but that’s another story and one that Miller intends to share with writers someday in the form of a tutorial about standing up to bullies.
For 18 years, she penned three columns for the Orange County Register. Her interests include pop culture, personality profiles, nonprofits, health care, sports, food and travel. She has written for many publications including More Magazine, Writer’s Digest, The Writer Magazine, Los Angeles Times & Oxygen.com.
For eight years, she co-hosted a radio talk show on an NPR affiliate and interviewed many notable writers including Ray Bradbury and Joe Wambaugh. A former nurse practitioner, she writes about health and consults with health insurance companies and on several health care websites.
Miller teaches marketing workshops at several writers’ conferences throughout the country. Her column in The Writer Magazine profiled noted authors and their early years in writing. Miller established the Young Writers Program that continued to be a thriving part of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference until the conference went bankrupt. She has taught narrative nonfiction workshops at the University of California, Irvine – Extension. For the past several years, she’s been on faculty at the Southern California Writers Conference. 24 years young, SCWC does what it does-teach craft and connect writers to industry experts-better than most. The founders are also really decent people.
Miller limits her editing gigs to a few/year. Of her freelance editing clients, two have authored best-selling books. One of Miller’s authors was represented by a conventional publisher. The other self published her memoir which turned out to be an experience that turned Miller into a believer in self publishing’s potential. It’s always about telling good stories. Marla Miller’s personal life includes mothering three great girls ages 29, 25 and 22. She also has a sweetie that helps her maintain balance as she travels down the zigzagging roads of her writing life.
