The Old Game of Telephone – Alive and Well on the Internet
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
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
How Good is Your First Chapter?
This weekend Ruth Perkinson and I had the pleasure of spending time with Katherine Forrest. In between discussions of dogs and cats, wine, wind and ocean, we discussed the changes in writing, novels and the marketplace. Read More
Readings, Libraries, Life is Good
Saturday afternoon the Lesbian Genre Fiction Bay Area Tour was present at the Hayward Public Library to do that thing we do. In spite of my having chosen a non-existent cafe for us to gather at ahead of time, we managed to all find the library in the end, with time to spare. Ursula Steck thought that “Lost in Hayward” was lacking a certain something as the title of a short story. Read More