Romance and Chocolate Blog
The things that one discovers when running a Web site. First, you find out that K.G. MacGregor—and a number of other colleagues—know way more than you do about it, so you listen carefully and take notes whilst saying “Mm-hmm” at the right moments. Then you set up an analytical program on your Web site and pore over data for trends. Bounce, landing, exit… You click all the “what does this mean” links and yearn for chocolate. Read More
An alto with the Seattle Women’s Chorus wrote me recently to invite me to their upcoming Vixen Fiction concert, featuring among other things, lyrics taken from Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker Chronicles. Read More
This week it’s K.G. MacGregor’s turn to reflect on the woes of editing an earlier version of her work. Without Warning, the first of the Shaken series, is already sitting pretty at the top of lesbian fiction and lesbian romance best seller lists–she must be doing something right! – Karin Read More
Lesbian generations, especially for writers, don’t seem to be reflected in relative age, but in the time and place that a particular writer comes into our lives. Lee Lynch is someone I consider a literary mother; I read my first Lynch novel (The Swashbuckler) in my late twenties when the writer in me was still a toddler. From it, and Lynch’s subsequent works, I took note of the importance of authenticity in lesbian fiction. Read More