Women’s Week, Provincetown, 10/16-18/2009

Karin Kallmaker Events and Appearances

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As far as we may have come, it’s still a delight to be in Provincetown, Massachusetts with women as far as the eye can see. Inns and theaters are packed with musicians and comics, the sidewalks are full of lotsa lesbians and readers and writers fill the bookstores and talk about anything they like. Read More

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The Amazon Conundrum

Karin Kallmaker Business of Books

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This post primarily concerns Amazon practices around paperback sales and what are now called “sponsored products” that persisted until circa 2013.

Writing gets in the way of blogging, as it should, and so I have been silent over the last several weeks and the topics I want to address are stacking up. I’ve been wrestling with a particularly sticky issue–bookselling models–and realized that there’s one part of it that is necessary to address, but has so many tangents and unique aspects that it deserves its own space. Read More

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Reality is Not Reality TV

Karin Kallmaker Craft of Writing, LIFE + STYLE, Readers and Libraries

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Sometimes unrelated events flow together and to me, suddenly, they don’t seem so unrelated. I have been planning some parts of this particular blog for some time, but didn’t feel I had my thoughts considered enough to share. Read More