Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Karin Kallmaker LIFE + STYLE

chinese zodiac year of rat

 It’s my year, at last! And the good news is that the Year of the Rat is benign and generous to everyone. Ships come in, regardless of storms, seeds take root with little water or sun, and administrations change, finally. Read More

violin pegs and sheet music

Something about Sondheim

Karin Kallmaker Readers and Libraries, Substitute for Love

It was my intention to write about the release of Christabel this week, but while attending a production of Side by Side by Sondheim something unusual happened. During the song “I Remember Sky,” I was lulled by the simple subtlety of Sondheim’s words and music. The yearning for sky, for light, for life outside of the one where we are trapped – it struck a chord, putting me in thoughtful space. Read More

In Deep Waters 2 – In Final Editing

Karin Kallmaker In Deep Waters Volume 2, One Degree of Separation, Paperback Romance

Cover, In Deep Waters 2 Cruising the Strip by Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker

After a round of edits, and the occasional pause to tingle, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip has returned to the tender mercies of the editor where it will go on its way into the production process at Bold Strokes Books. This two-part project has been a great deal of fun, and I’m going to miss those morning e-mails from Radclyffe. Read More

golen pens and ink on notebook

Change in Outlook

Karin Kallmaker LIFE + STYLE

This is hardly on the topic of writing, but it does involve some heavy thinking about words. For the first time I’m using Outlook for e-mail. To my surprise, I discovered that AOL’s spam filters really do work. Outlook seems to stop most of the ones about real estate, diet drugs, and my private opportunities to help smuggle $100,00,0000 HUNRED MILION DOLARS (sic) out of somewhere in Africa. Read More