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Tag: Golden Crown Literary Conference

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • BIG NEWS: Get ready for a special treat as we get ready for the 9th Annual GCLS Conference in Dallas!

    We are counting down! Yes, the time has come to make preparations for the annual conference of the Golden Crown Literary Society – a literary and educational organization for the enjoyment, discussion, and enhancement of lesbian literature (from the mission statement). I’ve got some BIG NEWS to share with you as we lead up to…

  • GCLS Con, Minneapolis – June 16, 2012

    The final full day of the conference – what a whirlwind of a day! We started out the day with our Keynote Speaker, Lambda Award winning author Jewelle Gomez.  Gomez added to the tributes to Barbara Grier by sharing some of her memories with the ground-breaking publisher.  She also called upon all of use to…

  • GCLS Con, Minneapolis – June 15, 2012

    Day three began with me waking up a bit later than I had wanted to…these beds really are just way too comfortable.  Every time I sit down on one, I have to lay down.  And once I lay down, that’s it – I’m napping!  I wonder if I can fit one in my suitcase and…

  • GCLS Con, Minneapolis – June 14, 2012

    After a really good night’s sleep on a bed that is way too comfortable, I was up and at ’em at around 7:30am.  Of course, I would have slept longer if my mother hadn’t called me at 7:20am to ask why I hadn’t called her the night before. 🙂  But, that’s okay…I’m missing Mom on…