Reflecting on Your Accomplishments
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I do New Year’s plans. I pick a theme for the year and use that to guide my decisions and goals. I also like to spend the last day of the year reflecting on what I’ve done – not just professional accomplishments, but the things that made me happy,…
Memories of My First Pride / Giveaway: The Queen Has a Cold
My first Pride parade was in Chicago in 1999. I was a wee baby dyke – actually, I called myself bi for a year before deciding I was a lesbian – and I wasn’t even out to my parents yet. My university, though, was incredibly queer supportive. Our LGBTQ group had joined a coalition of…
Why I Write Romance with Trans and Nonbinary Characters
It’s Trans Day of Visibility, which always means your favorite celebrities and politicians will be posting on social media about how they love and support trans people for today. Tomorrow it’ll mostly be forgotten. Yeah, I’m cynical. As the trans rights movement has moved to the foreground of US LGBTQ politics in recent years, anti-trans…
Going Where the Characters Take You
This week, I met up with some of the wonderful members of the Greater Detroit Romance Writers group for dinner and a write-in session. While we worked hard, we also chatted a bit here and there. (And laughed a lot.) One of the ideas that came up in our discussions was that characters sometimes take…
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Jane Kolven 