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The Tsunami of Thievery

Karin Kallmaker 10/26/2025 Business of Books, Resources 5 Comments

Highlighting a new report from Writer Beware about the MASSIVE increase in marketing scams aimed at writers and musings on what easy fakery can mean.

#WeaponizedAI#WriterBewareWriter Self-Care
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Temporary Discontinuation of All International Shipping

Karin Kallmaker 08/30/2025 Business of Books 5 Comments

Due to the chaos unleashed by the US Government on worldwide trade and small business, I temporarily discontinuing shipping paperbacks outside of the United States.

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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
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Me: the GCLS Albany Edition

Karin Kallmaker 07/09/2025 Events and Appearances 0 Comments

Friends. Colleagues. Readers. Comrades in arms. That means so much laughter and joy – because they’re not taking that away from us. My schedule for #GCLS2026.

#GCLS#GCLS2025Sapphic Stories
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The Cupcakes are Everywhere!

Karin Kallmaker 06/29/2025 Book News, Frosting 3 - Still Crazy After All These Years 1 Comment

Frosting on the Cake 3 is available everywhere. Aren’t we all still crazy after all these years?

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  • Trivia – In Every Port
    Barbara Grier wasn't sure she liked the title of Karin's first novel. But Katherine Forrest did, and In Every Port it remained.

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    A sweet holiday romance that is well written and performed.
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    The emotions and powers at work raised the hair on the back of my neck at times!
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