Deborah Peifer, Bay Area Reporter

What would you do for someone you loved? It's easy to say you'd climb mountains and swim oceans, but when faced with a desperate choice, what would you do? That's the dilemma facing Reyna in Karin Kallmaker's newest, and I think, darkest novel... Kallmaker does a fine job exploring the anguish of Reyna's life, and the second plot, concerning a mathematician, is equally well-developed. Her major and minor characters are credible and spirited, a pleasure to meet and, sometimes, to hate. Substitute for Love may just be the best Kallmaker I've read in a long time, and given her extraordinary talent, that's saying something.

Rebecca DiRusso, Womyn's Words

I've never been big on reading romance novels, which is why I'm so surprised to come to the revelation that I'm hooked on Karin Kallmaker's books... Substitute for Love is no exception. It doesn't seem likely for Holly, who is in a long-term straight relationship, to get involved with Reyna, who writes press releases and articles for a conservative, anti-gay Christian group, but it happens. As the story unfolds, Holly finds out some secrets about her past, while we find out the reason why Reyna has the job she has. This may be one of Karin Kallmaker's best and most engrossing books yet.

Errata

Okay, first there's the motorcycle. The graphic designer knew that one of the characters rode. After the cover was completed and while I still had the luxury to be spontaneously creative, I was walking through a parking lot when oh baby I saw a Virago. Fell in love. Pictured myself on the back doing my queen wave to the mortification of the driver. So, after the 20-second fantasy (with the kids going "Moogie, why are we standing here?") I decided I'd have Reyna ride a Virago.

Here's where I made my mistake: I thought no one would notice the bike on the original Naiad cover was a Shadow. *cough* Those of you who noticed, I was wrong to doubt you, yes I was.

But what's really driving me nuts is that I made a mistake on the Gipsy Kings, spelling it Gypsy throughout the book. What makes it worse was that the editor, Christi Cassidy, thought Gypsy was wrong and asked me to check it. I did check it! But now, looking back, what I used was the CD I found first, and their name on it was in a highly stylized script. I mistook curlicues at the bottom of the I as making it into a Y. Bamboleo on me. Sheesh. -- Karin

Ins Licht der Liebe

Nach UNVERGESSEN nun der neue Roman der „Queen of Lesbian Romance“ - sinnlich, sexy, spannungsreich:

INS LICHT DER LIEBE
Aus heiterem Himmel steht Holly Markhams Leben Kopf: Als sie sich mit einer gemobbten Kollegin solidarisch erklärt, wird sie gefeuert. Clay, ihr Lebensgefährte, findet ihr Verhalten unüberlegt und unklug. Holly fällt aus allen Wolken. Sie gerät ins Nachdenken. Ihren Job als Versicherungsmathematikerin war sie ohnehin leid. Und Clay im Grunde auch.
Holly beschließt, ihren Master in Mathematik zu machen und der wachsenden Faszination nachzugehen, die sie für Frauen empfindet. Und eines Abends begegnet ihr in einer Bar die schöne, geheimnisvolle Reyna ...