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"a calendar year's journey through the lives of couples who believe in love, live proud, and embrace the future" text over pink red white and blue swirl frosted cupcakes with sparkles and cover image of Frosting on the Cake 3: Still Crazy After All These Years by Karin Kallmaker

Frosting 3 – Goldie Finalist and That’s Crazy Good

Karin Kallmaker 04/17/2026 Frosting 1 - The Original, Frosting 2 - Second Helpings, Frosting 3 - Still Crazy After All These Years 5 Comments

It is meaningful and touching that Frosting on the Cake 3: Still Crazy After All These Years is a finalist for a 2026 Goldie Award!

#GCLS2026AwardsGolden Crown Literary SocietyLong-Term Couples
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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.

#practicepracticepractice#writeradviceFor Writers
Cover. Frosting on the Cake 3 sub-title Still Crazy After All These Years by Karin Kallmaker. Cental art features a dozen lavishly decorated cupcakes.

More than once, I had to take off my glasses and dry my eyes to finish reading a page.

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I love catching up on some of the characters she created from Warming Trend, Captain of Industry, Roller Coaster, and more.

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I really enjoyed meeting new characters and will almost certainly be looking up the original books featuring their stories...

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  • Unbeliever – One of the Best I’ve Read
    "I don’t often find myself at a loss for words, but Unbeliever has left me shaken. And heartbroken. And happy. And just slightly off balance. Undeniably one of the best I’ve read."
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    The heat of a prairie fire and the bold passion these women share is portrayed in vivid, poetic language.
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