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You Have FIVE Minutes, People! – Adapting Prose for Author Live Reading

Karin Kallmaker 08/11/2025 Above Temptation, Events and Appearances, Frosting 3 - Still Crazy After All These Years, Resources 2 Comments

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.

#practicepracticepractice#writeradviceFor Writers
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Dandelion Times: Our Heads Explode

Karin Kallmaker 03/05/2025 Business of Books 4 Comments

These times are unprecedented. Yes. And no. Regardless, what’s ahead is not going to be fun for anyone whose living is made from “luxuries.”

#mylesbianfreespeechFor WritersWriter Self-Care

Scrivener – Ideas, Research, Writing and Editing

Karin Kallmaker 11/22/2024 Favorite Things, Resources

Karin’s thoughts on Scrivener, software that helps writers organize, plan and produce.

For Writers
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I Heart SapphFIC Book Finder and Reader Picks

Karin Kallmaker 01/13/2024 Resources

I Heart SapphFIC provides an annual reading challenge for readers, a rich BookFinder, and promotion opportunities for writers. Read more about it.

For ReadersFor WritersSapphic Stories
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Surviving that First Panel – Moderators and Panelists

Karin Kallmaker 09/04/2022 Business of Books, Events and Appearances, Resources 1 Comment

Karin Kallmaker’s tips on moderating and/or being on a panel. And why it’s important to make love to the bush! Ad free site.

#writeradviceFor WritersParticipating on a Writer's Panel
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  • 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, Unbeliever by Karin Kallmaker. A novella of sisters, romance, and magic. Unbeliever - Love is Magic is Love - eBook $3.99
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  • Reader Comments about Simply the Best
    It made me appreciate just how much the past few years has hit me and just how important it is to keep loving.
  • Captain of Industry at Lambda Literary Review
    Captain of Industry is subtle and engaging, a Kallmaker love story with the kind of angst to which we can probably all relate.
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