Frivolous Views

Author: Carleen

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: JANET MASON

    I met Janet Mason at a GCLS conference in Orlando.  My mother attended with me.  On the first day, we met Janet.  I very clearly remember how wide-eyed she was – just taking everything in!  The biggest standout memory for me, however, was when Janet met Karin Kallmaker.  What a great meeting of two talented…

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: KARIN KALLMAKER

    This week’s guest blogger should be well-known to you.  If you don’t know the name “Karin Kallmaker,” you’re either not a lesbian or you live in a very, very remote part of the world.  (In which case, you wouldn’t be reading this blog, right?)  I got to meet Karin in 2009 at my first GCLS…

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: ERICA LAWSON

    I haven’t yet had the pleasure of “officially” meeting Erica Lawson.  We’ve both attended Conferences at the same time.  I’ve been in the audience when she participated in an Author’s Reading (which was fantastic, by the way).  I was in the audience when she won a Goldie for Possessing Morgan.  I’ve read her Xena fan…

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: KG MACGREGOR

    Like most of you, Dear Readers, I was first introduced to KG MacGregor through her fabulous Xena fan fiction.  What an incredible find!  The stories and characters were so rich.  Add on the fact that they were well written…well, I was hooked.  Over the years, I’ve become an even bigger fan of KG’s novels.  Hell,…

  • Dragon Naturally Speaking: Auction w/ Proceeds to GCLS Scholarship Fund

    FOR SALE – ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO THE Golden Crown SCHOLARSHIP FUND: Dragon Naturally Speaking Home Version 12 + Mic/Headset (+ USB adapter) Family Tree Maker The Dragon Naturally Speaking software, alone, sells for $99.99 + shipping. This is UNOPENED. I bought the Naturally Speaking software for myself and got a really good deal on…

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: BARRETT

    I attended a panel at the Minneapolis Con last year called “So I had this idea…how inspirations become realities.”  Barrett was a panelist.  At one point, I remember Karin Kallmaker – who was the moderator for the panel – saying to Barrett something along these lines:  “Did you just say that you consider 100,000 words…

  • Golden Globes Awards

    Tina Fey and Amy Poehler!  Yay!  I’m really excited about having them as hosts…I hope they live up to it. Again, Tina looks beautiful.  I’m a little undecided about Amy’s dress. Oh, Amy just dissed James Cameron BIG time…”I haven’t been following the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty, but when it comes to torture, I…

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: LAYCE GARDNER

    I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Layce Gardner at the 2011 GCLS Conference in Orlando.  My mother and I attended a panel that included Layce as a participant (along with Saxon Bennett, Amy Dawson Robertson, Laurie Salzer, and Pol Robinson).  It was a fabulous panel…and, with Layce as the ringleader, we were all laughing…

  • Golden Globes Red Carpet

    This will be free form blogging.  I’m just going to type whatever comes to mind while I’m watching.  So, if you’re looking for something that is well structured and coherent, this might not be the place for you. LOL Please feel free to comment below and provide your own commentary, thoughts, opinions, etc.  Have some…

  • GCLS Author Guest Blog: BETH MITCHUM

    Those of you who know – or know of – Beth Mitchum are well aware that she always seems to be doing something.  She is an author, poet, singer/songwriter, editor, publisher, artist…I could go on and on.  Beth shares with us her experiences at the 2011 Conference in Orlando and the 2012 Conference in Minneapolis.…