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
Without Warning – Guest blog by K.G. MacGregor
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
Lee Lynch, Jane Rule: Mothers of Us All
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
Everything Old is New Again! (Christabel: 1998 and 2008)
This week marks the release of Christabel, my gothic lesbian romance originally written under the pen name Laura Adams. To answer the most frequent question, yes, this edition is significantly augmented, and runs about a quarter longer than the original. I also took the opportunity to tweak some of the original text, a process I wrote humorously about last week at K.G. MacGregor’s blog. Read More
Same Blog Time, Different Blog Channel
This week’s Monday blog is actually to be found at K.G. MacGregor’s website. Now that she’s got cold cream on her vacation sunburn, my guest blog about re-editing Christabel, cliches and other bad writing habits of mine, is ready for reading. Hop over to her site to visit.