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Cheery Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Karin Kallmaker 12/14/2017 Cheers & Chocolate, Favorite Things 6 Comments

All the good things in life: Oats, brown sugar and butter, with bright pops of cherry and melting not-quite-bitter dark chocolate. Plus a short treatise on vanillin. Ad free site.

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Our Happy Hours – How LGBT People Thrive(d) and Survive(d)

Karin Kallmaker 11/03/2017 Anthologies, Sisters of the Pen 1 Comment

I’m proud to be a contributor to Our Happy Hours – a personal, historical, political anthology that celebrates the culture where we thrive and survive.

#LGBTHistory#LGBTSolidarity#PulseMassacre
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Why #SWRepMatters – Disposable and Invisible Equals Unsafe

Karin Kallmaker 10/24/2017 Craft of Writing 4 Comments

Saying Inclusion is political but exclusion isn’t leads to story worlds where most of us don’t exist. And if we don’t exist in fiction, our existence in the real world remains precarious.

#mylesbianfreespeech#SWRepMattersChuck Wendig
Cover, A Fish Out of Water by Karin Kallmaker. A mermaid sleeps on a dock against a dark, misty sea. A single word will cost them everything. The Lesbian Review writes, "My favorite adaptation of The Little Mermaid."

A Fish Out of Water – The Little Mermaid with Lesbians

Karin Kallmaker 09/30/2017 Book News, Fish Out of Water 0 Comments

The original “The Little Mermaid” needed changes. A heroine who lived for starters. And lesbians, it really needed lesbians.

#DisneyLittleMermaid#f/f#LesbianLittleMermaid#lesfic#Splash#wlwLesbian RomanceThe Shape of Water
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Many Splendoured Things (But Not the Head Cold)

Karin Kallmaker 07/13/2017 Events and Appearances, Readers and Libraries 7 Comments

In which Karin Kallmaker says two kinds of thank you, applauds love and resistance and gives you a real reason to read to the end.

#GCLS2017#HeadColdLies#WomenLaughingTogether
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  • Trivia – Women Who Know Who They Are
    Admiration for strong women in history was one of the reasons Faith Fitzgerald in Wild Things is a history prof and biography writer. Plus that's what she explained were her studies, so it's not like Karin had a real choice in the matter.

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  • Reader Comments about Roller Coaster
    I couldn't wait to see what happened & would wake up during the night to read more.
  • Captain of Industry at the Lesbian Reading Room
    Extremely well written in classic Kallmaker style, with a great supporting cast of friends and colleagues and a fascinating exploration on the social scene these women inhabit...
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