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Home Blog POST TOPICS Readers and Libraries

Readers and Libraries

Karin Kallmaker's posts about sapphic readers and the treasure that public libraries bring to community life.

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Dear Clean Reader – Don’t Groin Around with My Books

Karin Kallmaker 03/26/2015 Business of Books, Readers and Libraries 6 Comments

In other words, the customer is still supporting sinful writing, but using an app to avoid experiencing it. Very, very clever Clean Reader.

#censorshipChuck WendigClean ReaderDazed MagazineJennifer PorterJoanne HarrisJohn Scalzi
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Let’s All Stop Shaming Women Who Read Romance

Karin Kallmaker 03/08/2015 Business of Books, Readers and Libraries 29 Comments

Stupid, silly, trashy, sappy… It’s “just” a romance after all. How about we stop shaming our readers and our own work?

#feminist#romancewriterJennifer CruisieJennifer WeinerJoanne HarrisJodi PicoultLesbian RomanceZoe York

Do You Review? Blog It! Part 2

Karin Kallmaker 09/26/2013 Awards and Reviews, Readers and Libraries 1 Comment

Honest thoughts of readers about books they’d read disappeared. Poof! Gone!

#reviewBlogging
Thank you acknowledgements in Love by the Numbers

Love Unboxed!

Karin Kallmaker 03/19/2013 Book News, Love by the Numbers, Readers and Libraries 34 Comments

One unique aspect of this book is that readers on my Facebook page gave many ideas of places my heroines could visit in their travels.

#gratitude#lesficLesbian Romance

Read Something Dangerous, Subversive and Unsuitable!

Karin Kallmaker 10/02/2012 Readers and Libraries

The ones who stand between these “concerned” citizens and our right to read whatever we want are librarians and booksellers.

#mylesbianfreespeechLibraries and Librarians Rock
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