How could bookstore clerks suggest me to customers if they couldn’t say my name, I reasoned. So I suggested a phonetic compromise: Kallmaker.
A Rainstorm in Rome and Self-Portrait of Brain Exploding
All about Venice, Rome, a rainstorm, and the best wrong impression ever. The Coin of Love Series begins with Velvet in Venice.
You Have FIVE Minutes, People! – Adapting Prose for Author Live Reading
What does it mean to adapt a passage from a larger work to a live reading of perhaps five minutes? Karin Kallmaker has an example.
My Voice and Why Gen AI Can’t Fake It
I can write a bad story all by myself. I don’t need AI to help me do that. I own every imperfect word – and the perfect ones too.
A Persona is No Substitute for Work
Thing is, if I’m going to pay $15 for a book, or $55 for (heavily discounted back of the house) seats for a Vegas show that runs $180 for front row, I expect the creators to have put in more work than a marketing campaign.