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I invite you to enjoy the opening from “LARP,” my this-could-be-the-start-of-something-good contribution to Conference Call, a new romance anthology available first at #GCLS2017
So I Had This Idea 2017 – From Idea to Published Work
Ask a hundred writers “how’d you finish that book?” and you’ll get 97 different answers and 3 people who’ll wander off muttering.
A Yank’s Opinion of Ireland’s Crisps
I donned the mantle of science and tasted the most common crisps of the Emerald Isle. This is my evaluation, which nobody asked for. Plus, I’m quite sure that the Irish couldn’t give a rusty nail about what a Yank thinks on the subject.
First Look the Second: My Lady Lipstick (Diana)
Who is the woman behind the vivid hair, impossibly green eyes and red, red lips? Meet “My Lady Lipstick” from Karin Kallmaker’s next romance.
Now It’s More than a Teapot – Travel Synchronicity
I’d already picked out the teapot to use in My Lady Lipstick. Then we toured the place where that teapot was born.
Art Doing What Art Does – Fearless Girl Makes Us Reflect, Evolve
Fearless Girl is awesome staring down Charging Bull. Fearless Girl is completely awesome on her own. Our feelings about art evolve; that is what art is.
Same Thing Just Different People – When “Fix It” Means “Kill It”
When another group comes along and says, “your way of being should be eradicated” everyone’s alarm bells should go off. Isn’t that what conversation therapy is all about?
First Look: My Lady Lipstick (Paris)
Paris Ellison, the real woman behind Queen of the Bodice Rippers Anita Topaz, has received a disturbing letter – and burnt the brownies! And meets the mysterious Diana.
Surviving that First Reading
Revised and expanded – Karin Kallmaker’s advice on how to prepare for your first public reading of your book: Pick the right passage, practice, prepare for questions and close with a call to action.
Castle Wrath – Not Your Mother’s Jane Austen – Now Available
Burning curiosity. Wild imagination. And it’s a bit naughty. All in all, not your mother’s Jane Austen: Castle Wrath by Karin Kallmaker.
Reblog: Laurie R. King “Moving Forward”
I am grateful to Laurie R. King for expressing beautifully how I am feeling today about moving forward. Please go read.
Lesbian Storytelling in the New Dark Times – Laurel Bookstore Feb 19
Calendar it now: Laurel Bookstore, Oakland, 2/19 4 pm, Lesbians. Really all you need to know right there. Lesbian writers talking about doing what we do in the Dark Times.