KARIN KALLMAKER

 Karin Kallmaker believes that lesbian fiction plays an important role in encouraging lesbians to celebrate and honor their relationships, friendships and community—and helps them to see themselves as part of a world in which everyone is treated as an equal. Characterization is one of Kallmaker’s greatest strengths, and the interior lives of her characters are at least as important as the stories themselves. Karin Kallmaker books also deliver red-hot lesbian romance that’s as titillating and sensual as it is thoughtful (and thought-provoking). Karin Kallmaker’s lesbian fiction includes the Goldie- and Lambda Award-winning 18th & Castro, Just Like That, The Kiss That Counted, Maybe Next Time, Stepping Stone and the popular anthologies In Deep Waters and In Deep Waters 2 (written with Radclyffe). Karin Kallmaker books span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica and lesbian science fiction/fantasy (written under the pen name Laura Adams), and have been translated into Spanish, French, German and Czech. She’s also published over five dozen short stories in anthologies, many of which showcase her talent as an author of more explicit lesbian erotica.