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What am I doing wrong? Questions about Finders Keepers

Karin Kallmaker Finders Keepers, LIFE + STYLE

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Question 1: A year ago I read Finders Keepers and was so inspired by Marissa’s story that I embarked on my own get healthy program. I wrote you a while ago that I’d lost 20 pounds and was feeling great. But the last month I’ve started gaining weight back and I’m doing the exact same thing I was before. Help! You’re my guru. What am I doing wrong? What would Marissa do? Read More

One Blessed Thing After Another

Karin Kallmaker Cheers & Chocolate, LIFE + STYLE

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Since leaving home and the shelter of my father’s toolbox and fix-it-ness, I’ve lived in apartments, one older house and two new homes. I have preferred the new homes in spite of their generic qualities and my inability to ever finish decorating them. They don’t require relationships with repair people. Living in the Bay Area, with its extensive housing boom, means that there are fewer true handypeople around who want to repair what exists rather than rip it out and install new. Read More

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The Old Game of Telephone – Alive and Well on the Internet

Karin Kallmaker Business of Books

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As a lurker on a few blogs, for personal and professional reasons, I often run across mention of my work or me in surprising contexts. One of the reasons I lurk is that readers are perfectly free to have a public discussion of the writer “Karin Kallmaker” and their comments I know are directed at the books or the writer, not the person. I lurk because I don’t want to interfere in whatever it is that readers want to discuss. (Though of course, it bears repeating that a “private” conversation doesn’t exist on the Internet.) Read More

Family, Friends, Cowboys, Good Witches, Pulps and Kisses that Count

Karin Kallmaker All the Wrong Places, Christabel, Cowboys and Kisses, Events and Appearances, Finders Keepers, Frosting 1 - The Original, Kiss That Counted, Readers and Libraries, Substitute for Love, Tunnel of Light

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Lecture and Readings at the Stonewall Library and Archives

It was a lot of ground to cover in an hour, and I’m reminded as I look at video and listen to the audio, that I can talk really really fast when I’m excited about the topic. Excited is an understatement when it comes to lesbian romance. Read More