Karin’s dual timeline gothic, modern-day romance, Christabel, was inspired by the epic poem of the same name by Samual Taylor Coleridge. Unlike Coleridge, Karin presumes a witch met in the greenest of woods is a good witch. The creative push was provided by Jeanette Foster’s Sex Variant Women in Literature.
Trivia – Christabel
The epic poem, after which Karin’s Christabel is named, sends a self-appointed knight into the evil, green forest to fight a witch for the soul of a young woman. It is presumed that the young woman wouldn’t stay with the witch unless she were under a spell. That script needed flipping.
National and Local Bookstore Top Ten LIsts 1994-95
Painted Moon remained on queer and women's national and local bookstore top ten lists for more than seven months.Trivia: Time and Language
Karin feels it is completely inappropriate that the two-word titles of two of her novels are now one word: rollercoaster and carpool.
Trivia: My Lady Lipstick and the Ocarina of Time
The Ocarina of Time is a game from the universe of Zelda. Zelda is awesome. If you want to know more than that you’ll have to ask Karin’s daughter or Paris Ellison (My Lady Lipstick) for yourself. #ZeldaRules