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Home Blog POST TOPICS Craft of Writing

The Craft of Writing and Writer Self-Care

These posts by Karin Kallmaker cover practical topics for sapphic writers, as well as advice for writer self-care in difficult times.

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.

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Why There Should Not Be Special Rules for Lesfic Book Reviews

Karin Kallmaker 01/13/2015 Awards and Reviews, Business of Books, Craft of Writing 5 Comments

Authors in lesbian fiction are not able to withstand customary, ongoing criticism like writers in other genres?

#lesfic#Reviewers
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No Rage Stalking Here – Why I Welcome Critical Reviews

Karin Kallmaker 11/07/2014 Awards and Reviews, Craft of Writing 9 Comments

Authors behaving badly. Readers retaliating. This is why we can’t have nice things? Like a viable feedback loop that helps writers grow and readers get better books for their money?

#lesfic#ReadersareEarnedAuthors Behaving BadlyReviews

Writing a Book – Mowing the Lawn

Karin Kallmaker 05/20/2012 Craft of Writing

The quip above was almost an aside, but I have thought of it often.

#MowingtheLawnGarrison Keillor
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Autocorrect and Anatomies of Typographical Errors

Karin Kallmaker 03/14/2012 Craft of Writing, Roller Coaster, Touchwood - First Edition

How do weird typos still find their way into final manuscripts? Let’s start with “balsalmic.”

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Random Trivial Things

  • Trivia – Who’s the Smarta$$?
    Karin's favorite sarcastic-inside-voice heroine is Leslie from Embrace in Motion. Marian the Librarian (One Degree of Separation) thinks that's a load of crapspackle but would never say so out loud.

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  • Cover Cowboys and Kisses lesbian romance by Karin Kallmaker. Woman in black dress holds a book of old folded pages and lavender. Cowboys and Kisses - Historical Romance - eBook $4.99

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  • Reader Comments about Karin’s Short Stories
    She tells stories that can be read over and over again with characters that linger in your thoughts.
  • As a Journalist Simply the Best Grabbed Me Hook, Line, and Sinker
    As a journalist, and an environmental one at that with a degree in science, this novel grabbed me hook, line and sinker... The love story was beautiful and inspiring...
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