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Life Happens – and Then Some

Karin Kallmaker 03/28/2024 Book News, Covered Hearts, Frosting 3 - Still Crazy After All These Years 7 Comments

A lot of life is happening, in all of its stages. This means I’m rearranging my publishing schedule for the next 4-5 months to spend time with my parents.

Image Read an Ebook Week. Smashwords. Your ebook, your way. Sapphic Stories on Sale. Cartoon image of young woman holding a paperback.

Read an Indie Ebook – Gigantic Smashwords Sale

Karin Kallmaker 03/05/2024 Book News, Events and Appearances 0 Comments

There’s a huge sale at Smashword for “Read an eBook Week” and you’ll find my indie releases are 50% off.

The world conspires to keep women apart. To let their sacred knowledge disappear into the cracks between them. To keep them suspicious of their own strength. To reward them if they make enemies of each other. "Nomisma's Lament" from Wind in Her Hair. Cover, Wind in Her Hair.

“Pulp” vs “Purity” Romances and 1950s Women Somewhere in Between

Karin Kallmaker 10/06/2023 Book News, Wind in Her Hair 2 Comments

Lesbian lives were fictionally sensationalized in the pulps, while society was 100% behind the mystique in “purity” romances. Lesbians of the 1950s took lessons from both, and we can too.