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All About Français – Deutsch – Español

Web Sprite 11/25/2025 Egales Editoriales, Krug and Schadenberg, KTM Editions

Karin Kallmaker’s novels have been translated into German, French and Spanish. Refer a friend who would be happier reading in one of these languages to these LGBTQ+ focused publishers!

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Web Sprite 11/25/2025 Celebrity Spotlight, Fantasy - Magic, Food Fetish, Novella, Romance, Romance and Chocolate Ink

There’s only one of her old songs that matters to grunge-diva-turned-celebrity-chef Devi Raven, and she’s not going to let an autotuned pop star with bubble gum for a soul sing it.

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Undeniably one of the best I’ve read.

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You Have FIVE Minutes, People! – Adapting Prose for Author Live Reading

Karin Kallmaker 08/11/2025 Above Temptation, Events and Appearances, Frosting 3 - Still Crazy After All These Years, Resources 2 Comments

What does it mean to adapt a passage from a larger work to a live reading of perhaps five minutes? Karin Kallmaker has an example.

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Yet again, you brought stories to the page that I didn't know I needed... More than once, I had to take off my glasses and dry my eyes to finish reading a page.

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    The Queen of Cups Bookstore (In Every Port) is entirely fictional. The experience of a young closeted woman visiting an out and proud women's bookstore for the first time - not quite so fictional.

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    But where the author really shines is what she does for love.
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    Ah ! l'amour... Une histoire qui commence par la fin, pour mieux faire goûter au suspens... Encore de quoi faire rêver les lesbiennes!
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