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How “Strong Female Characters” Still End Up Weak And Powerless

Karin Kallmaker 02/17/2015 Craft of Writing

Comments on and links toTerrible Minds blog on real agency for female characters, and Ada Hoffman’s excellent Twitter series about agency in plot, not character.

#writeradviceAda HoffmanCharlie Jane AndersChuck WendigJoss Whedon
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Confess This: Envy and Loathing Get You Nothing.

Karin Kallmaker 02/12/2015 Craft of Writing 6 Comments

In which Karin Kallmaker answers Jowita Bydlowska’s (“Confessions of a Failed Romance Writer”) breathtaking disrespect of romance writers and readers. There is cursing.

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Stars Fell On Alabama’s Lesbian and Gay Couples – reblog from Mary Griggs

Karin Kallmaker 02/09/2015 LIFE + STYLE, Sisters of the Pen

Mary Griggs shares a wonderful history lesson and a summing up of the beautiful, supportive “Wedding Week” in Alabama. Read it, it will do your heart good.

#LGBT#WWJDMarriage Equality

Sally Ride to Stand Tall in National Statuary Hall?

Karin Kallmaker 02/09/2015 LIFE + STYLE

Astronaut and Scientist Sally Ride’s statue may represent California in the Capitol Statuary Hall and she’d be the first openly LGBT person figured there.

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Dear Dairy – reblog from KG MacGregor

Karin Kallmaker 02/07/2015 Craft of Writing, Sisters of the Pen

My example is from Love by the Numbers:
“She loved her beautiful back hair.” I caught that in the last proof before the book went to press.

#editorsrock#lesficLesbian Romance
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