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One Writer’s Story: Celebrating Survival

Karin Kallmaker 10/21/2010 LIFE + STYLE, Sisters of the Pen

We’re here and we care. You are not alone. Reach out and don’t stop reaching out until someone is holding you safe. Suicide is not the answer. Choose life. It will get better. I know. I’ve been there.

#lesbianpride#mylesbianfreespeech
KK's purple suede stilettos mean business. And bunions.

To the Girly-Girls Who Like Girls

Karin Kallmaker 10/20/2010 LIFE + STYLE 4 Comments

If you’re a young femme in school and you really want the purple shoes, the fabulous purse and the supermodel hair, but the gay kids give you a hard time for not looking gay enough — that gets better too.

#BigQueerTent#lesbianpride#mylesbianfreespeech

Kip and Tam and Faith and Sydney and Jackie and Leah…

Karin Kallmaker 10/15/2010 Book News, Frosting 1 - The Original, Frosting 2 - Second Helpings

Seems to me that what we do with our hearts and bodies is why we don’t have equal civil rights

#lesbianpride#romancewriter#writingpride

A New Word for a Swashbuckler

Karin Kallmaker 10/10/2010 Sisters of the Pen

Congratulations on your nuptials, Lee Lynch and Elaine Mulligan. May the years ahead be as unexpected and joyous as those that brought you to your wedding day.

#righttomarry
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Purple Your Profile – It Gets Better

Karin Kallmaker 10/06/2010 LIFE + STYLE

Surely purpling our profiles can have an impact on all the unaware adults and the troubled kids that we’re linked to on Facebook through friends and friends of friends. So I put together an “event.” Anyone can join.

#lesbianpride#mylesbianfreespeech
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Random Trivial Things

  • Trivia – Lesbian Romance Writer Living Large
    Karin's first few novels were typed on a Macintosh Plus and printed via dot matrix. Plus it had dueling double density disk drives. Good times.

Featured Published Things

  • Cover Checked Out, a Coin of Love Romance by Karin Kallmaker. Features a brown-reddish haired woman peering from behind an open bright green book. A holiday santa hat ornament dangles from the title. Checked Out - A Coin of Love Romance - eBook $4.99

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Random Shiny Things

  • 18th and Castro at In the Know
    Masterful storytelling that doesn’t get in the way of generating incredible heat.
  • 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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