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Transitions of Joy

Karin Kallmaker 08/11/2024 LIFE + STYLE 10 Comments

2024 has been a year of transitions for my family. This blog catches up on past events and ends with one of the best!

#100%MomBrag#GCLS#LoveAndMarriage
Week #22 Fish out of Water, I Heart Sapph FIC 2024 Reading Challenge. A blue and yellow fish leaps happily between stacks of books.

The Beloved Fish Out of Water Trope

Karin Kallmaker 06/06/2024 Book News, Checked Out 0 Comments

What’s so compelling about the Fish Out of Water trope? Let me tell you the ways! I Heart SapphFIC’s reading challenge week 22.

#FishOutofWater#IHeartSapphFIc
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Transitions and Thank You

Karin Kallmaker 03/31/2024 Cheers & Chocolate 12 Comments

Thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts and well wishes. My father has passed peacefully. (Follow-up to my previous blog.)

#PersonalNewsWriter Self-Care
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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.

#PersonalNewsWriter Self-Care
From the hand drawn 1989 Naiad Press cover of In Every Port, a silhouetted women in blue gazes out an airplane window at clouds.

In Every Port – History on a Flyleaf

Karin Kallmaker 03/13/2024 In Every Port, Readers and Libraries 6 Comments

There’s a reason I don’t care what people do to a book they own. Sometimes they’re saving their own life or someone else’s sanity.

#lesfic#WriterPrideFor Readers
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  • Trivia – Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren? Sure!
    It's unusual for Karin to have an actor in mind to play one of her characters. An exception is Marissa's mother in Finders Keepers. The "step up on the table in the country club dining room to make an announcement" personality - it's so Meryl Streep. If she were unavailable then Helen Mirren would do it justice as well.

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  • She Can’t Write the Coin of Love Books Quickly Enough for Me!
    Checked Out is a sweet heartwarming story that just begs to be read in the run up to the festive season.
  • Reader Comments about Sugar
    The dialogue is probably the best I have read by this author and she excels at snappy dialogue.
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